The world of telecoms
has been a hive of activity (as ever) in our fields recently.
Many thanks to the Register for its regular updates which this week included challenges to Qualcomm by other telcos in the European Commission (to add to its recent problems in the US) regarding its licensing of technology which is part of the WCDMA third generation mobile phone standard. The Register also provided a further reminder that more and even better techhnology in communications fields does not mean a better world, comes with the report from the WiMAX World conference in Boston that the shiny utopian technologies are now largely adopted by incumbent corporations, and enforced by their lawyers. As the Register says, "Plus ca change....." And if that isn't to your liking, the picture of gloom could be completed by the report that the US FCC is not objecting to proposed mergers between SBC and AT&T, and Verizon and MCI - the FCC considers that the mergers would have public interest benefits for consumers in terms of efficiency and reliability.
A final twist comes when you combine (a) the Register's WiMAX conference report of 1 November of a "rare consensus" that the real market for WiMAX is in parts of the world where existing "telephony coverage both fixed and mobile, is patchy", and (b) the 3 November report that Vodafone is set to increase its stake in South African Vodacom to 50%, and had recently acquired 10% of Indian mobile phone operator Bharti.
Many thanks to the Register for its regular updates which this week included challenges to Qualcomm by other telcos in the European Commission (to add to its recent problems in the US) regarding its licensing of technology which is part of the WCDMA third generation mobile phone standard. The Register also provided a further reminder that more and even better techhnology in communications fields does not mean a better world, comes with the report from the WiMAX World conference in Boston that the shiny utopian technologies are now largely adopted by incumbent corporations, and enforced by their lawyers. As the Register says, "Plus ca change....." And if that isn't to your liking, the picture of gloom could be completed by the report that the US FCC is not objecting to proposed mergers between SBC and AT&T, and Verizon and MCI - the FCC considers that the mergers would have public interest benefits for consumers in terms of efficiency and reliability.
A final twist comes when you combine (a) the Register's WiMAX conference report of 1 November of a "rare consensus" that the real market for WiMAX is in parts of the world where existing "telephony coverage both fixed and mobile, is patchy", and (b) the 3 November report that Vodafone is set to increase its stake in South African Vodacom to 50%, and had recently acquired 10% of Indian mobile phone operator Bharti.
posted by Dr Abbe Brown at 9:27 am
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