Results tagged “wimax” from eComm2008: Emerging Communications Conference

Who Controls Wireless Access? Carriers, Internet players or the End User?

One vision of wireless Utopia is ultimate control in the hands (andhandsets) of the user, moving away from a world where the majority ofthe market is controlled by a few powerful carriers. Evangelists dreamof plenty of free or inexpensive bandwidth, a choice of flexibledevices, and the ability to use whichever cool communications applications appeal. The signs are promising: the proliferation of smartphones continues, myriad new access technologies - WiMAX, LTE,WiFi mesh, 4G, UWB and even software-defined radio (SDR) - are comingover the horizon, and new phone features like GPS, RFID and motion sensing are begging to be exploited as well. So what's the delay?Policymakers seem to be taking tentative steps towards flexibility -witness the FCC's 700MHz open-access requirements, and the European Commission's stance on tech-neutrality and spectrum trading. But thefact remains that the vertical model of bundled mobile access andservice remains entrenched, with conventional cellular subscriptions nearing the 3bn mark, about 70% of whom are on basic prepaid GSM. It's worth remembering too that the 'closed' non-IP world of SMS will hit the $100bn revenue mark in 2007. This presentation looks at the aspirational objectives of wireless visionaries on the one hand... but tempers their enthusiasm with apragmatic analysis of mobile market realities: worries about interference and "the tragedy of the commons", slow-evolving spectrum policy, handset power & useability constraints, and timeline and scale economies in RF and silicon development. It presents a realistic view of what will happen when - and how this will impact innovators lookingto create next-generation mobile communications applications.

Lee S Dryburgh

eComm Media, Inc.

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Martin Geddes

Independent

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John Waclawsky

Motorola

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Marc A Smith

ConnectedAction

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Shai Berger

Fōnolo

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Piotr Cofta

British Telecom

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Dean Bubley

Disruptive Analysis

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Gary Miner

MIR3, Inc.

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Dawn Nafus

Intel

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Kellan Elliott-McCrea

Yahoo! Inc.

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Jim Van Meggelen

Core Telecom Innovations

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Stanley Chia

Vodafone

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James Body

Truphone

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Ken Rehor

VoiceXML Forum

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Rocky Nevin

DataSea, Inc.

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Matthew S. Hamrick

Homebrew Mobile Phone Club

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Michael Shiloh

OpenMoko

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Ram Fish

Nokia

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Tony Nadalin

IBM

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Gabriel Sidhom

Orange-FT Group

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Kevin Nethercott

LignUp Corporation

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David Isenberg

Isen.com

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Michel Bauwens

P2P Foundation

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Anders Carlius

TerraNet

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Jonathan Christensen

Skype

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Peter Saint-Andre

Jabber, Inc.

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Brough Turner

Ashtonbrooke

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Johannes Ernst

NetMesh

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Brian Capouch

Saint Joseph\'s College

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Adrian Cockcroft

Netflix

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Phil Wolff

Reef9 Media

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Thomas Huhn

Solution Media

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Simonie Wilson

Intervoice

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Blaine Cook

Twitter

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Amit Desai

Dial Directions, Inc.

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Michael Codini

VoiceObjects, Inc.

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Evan \'Rabble\' Henshaw-Plath

Yahoo! Brickhouse

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Fabrizio Capobianco

Funambol

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Shidan Gouran

Jazinga Inc.

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Stipe Tolj

Kannel Software Foundation

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Koushik Chatterjee

Embarq

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Michael Roth

British Telecom

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Sheldon Renan

Vision (+) Strategy

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Thomas McCarthy-Howe

Jaduka

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Tim Panton

PhoneFromHere.com

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Bob Frankston

Frankston Innovating

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Sean O Sullivan

mySay and Dial2Do

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Norman Lewis

Open-Knowledge UK

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Sam Aparicio

Angel.com

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Imran Ali

Carbon Imagineering

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Mark Rolston

frog design

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Nathan Eagle

MIT Design Laboratory

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Boaz Zilberman

Fring

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Rich Miner

Google

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Christopher Allen

iPhoneWebDev.com

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Crick Waters

Ribbit

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David Troy

Popvox

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Benoit Schillings

Myriad Group AG

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Irv Shapiro

IfByPhone

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RJ Auburn

Voxeo

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Andrew Perlman

Vringo

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Tim Higginson

Yuvee

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Jeremy Toeman

Stage Two Consulting

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David Recordon

Six Apart

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Rodrigue Ullens

Voxbone

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Paul Golding

paulgolding.com

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Peter Sisson

Toktumi

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Jon Arnold

J Arnold & Associates

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Nitzan Shaer

Mobivox

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Ben Lilienthal

VAPPS

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Shirish Andhare

Sylantro

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Luca Filigheddu

abbeynet

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Who Controls Wireless Access? Carriers, Internet players or the End User?

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