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I am delighted to announce my participation in an upcoming event being organized in San Jose on 18th Nov. A high-level Finnish delegation of executives from the wireless industry is coming to US and I will be moderating a panel discussion on "Tomorrow's Wireless World." We will be going beyond [...]

Filed under: ATTThe internals of AT&T's org chart aren't really hot news, but the company just reshuffled all its consumer services into a new division headed by Ralph De La Vega, who used to head up AT&T Wireless. Ralph now also oversees internet, TV and landline phones in addition to [...]

GigaOM Mobilize conference -- Carriers panel Without carriers and their data networks, mobile applications wouldn't be possible. So let's show them some love, says Chetan Sharma, of Chetan Sharma Consulting, the moderator of the panel. The consensus is that mobile data is becoming more important to carriers and it's growing [...]

As most of you know, this summer we have been working hard to put together our next-generation mobile conference Mobilize 08, which will look at the emergence of new devices and their impact on mobile data - in particular the opportunities they present for entrepreneurs. Unlike some of the existing [...]

Hi, my name is Ms. Jen and I am a moblogger*. If you want to be specific, a mo-pho-blogger (mobile photo blogger). Darla and Matthew have kindly invited me on board here as a guest blogger. I will keep my first post short & sweet, but giving you my tip [...]

The second-quarter 2008 financial reports are in –- and the tea leaves aren't showing a sunny future for phone companies. While their financials today look bearable, economic and demographic trends are acting as gale-force headwinds for the future. Here are some of the major issues they're facing: A slowing economy [...]

Wireless Data Services Up 52.0 Percent. Wireless data revenues grew 52.0 percent versus the year-earlier quarter to $2.5 billion, reflecting continued strong adoption of services such as Internet and data access, e-mail and messaging. Wireless Internet access revenues more than doubled versus results for the year-earlier second quarter, while revenues [...]

The open access restrictions mandated by the Federal Communications Commission on portions of the recently auctioned 700 MHz spectrum were among the main reasons AT&T chose not to bid for that spectrum but opted instead to pay more for that of the B-Block, which complements the slice they bought from [...]

The open access restrictions mandated by the Federal Communications Commission on portions of the recently auctioned 700 MHz spectrum were among the main reasons AT&T chose not to bid for that spectrum but opted instead to pay more for that of the B-Block, which complements the slice they bought from [...]

Filed under: ATTWe've been receiving a steady stream of tips from users around the country today reporting that that AT&T, which supposedly just got back up from some apparent sporadic outages spread across the nation, was (is?) back down again today. We haven't seen or heard much, and have yet [...]

Filed under: ATT, EDGE, HSDPAWe're getting reports from all over that AT&T customers are having trouble with 3G and EDGE data. A majority of the complaints are coming from the Midwest / Chicago areas, where things seem to be down entirely, but we've also heard from folks as far away [...]

Filed under: KDDI, NTT DoCoMoEverybody is sworn to silence until the auction is over, so we won't be seeing much more information about this until it's all over in the spring of next year, but for now it's still fun to speculate. Business Week is doing quite a bit of [...]

I still think it's huge and wonderful that Verizon has announced the opening of its wireless network. Harold Feld outlines most of the reasons why, but here's my list:1. Apple not only got beat up for tying the iPhone to AT&T, but it also seems to have a real mismatch [...]

Chomp, chomp, chomp. The announcement that Verizon Wireless plans to buy the much smaller Rural Cellular Corporation and transition Rural Cellular’s GSM customers to Verizon’s CDMA network is bad news, especially here in Vermont. It’s also further evidence of rapidly disappearing communication competition in America. There’s something particularly arrogant (confident?) [...]