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More Canadian Wireless Carrier Greed

July 8, 2008

Apparently trying to steal the thunder of customer ire from Rogers Wireless’ ill-considered iPhone launch, Bell and Telus are trying to slip out the back door with an announcement that they’re going to be charging users extra for text messaging. To be specific, that charge is $0.15 for each incoming message you receive, whether you [...]

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Clay Shirky: 3G is Wrong…

March 29, 2003

http://shirky.com/writings/permanet.html
Permanet, Nearlynet, and Wireless Data First published March 28, 2003 on the “Networks, Economics, and Culture” mailing list. Subscribe to the mailing list.
“The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.” — Alvin Toffler
For most of the past year, on many US airlines, those phones inserted into the middle seat [...]

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FedEx and ZapMail…

January 8, 2003

http://shirky.com/writings/zapmail.html
Customer-owned Networks: ZapMail and the Telecommunications Industry First published January 7, 2003 on the ‘Networks, Economics, and Culture’ mailing list. By Clay Shirky
To understand what’s going to happen to the telephone companies this year thanks to WiFi (otherwise known as 802.11b) and Voice over IP (VoIP) you only need to know one story: [...]

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Municipal-Owned Networks…

November 8, 2002

Milwaukee’s 500 Miles Of Buried Treasure
The city is creating a broadband network using infrastructure built in the 1800s. By Robin Gareiss, InformationWeek Nov 4, 2002 (12:00 AM) URL: http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021101S0032
Talk about a long-term investment In the late 1800s, Milwaukee city workers buried more than 500 miles of ductwork under the streets to carry telegraph [...]

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FW: Sell Me a Class 5 VoIP Switch

May 2, 2002

—— Forwarded Message From: Ian Andrew Bell
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 17:30:17 -0700 To: PULVER-RPT [at] LISTSERV.PULVER [dot] COM Subject: Sell Me a Class 5 VoIP Switch
Back in 1997, while I was working at Canada’s 2nd Largest local phone company (now TELUS), an SE from Cisco made me fall in love with Voice [...]

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Can Ethernet Solve the Bottleneck Problem?

April 19, 2002

http://www.totaltele.com/interviews/display.asp?InterviewID0
Can Ethernet solve the bottleneck problem? Keith Mitchell, CTO for XchangePoint, believes Ethernet can help solve current metro bandwidth issues.

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802.11b Security Option..

March 22, 2002

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/03/11/020311opwireless.xml
Wireless World Ephraim Schwartz WLANs, the Army way
WE LIVE IN a democracy, a fact that is evident even in the corporate world which, during the past decade or so, has tried at least to build consensus. But sometimes it is hard not to admire swift, autocratic decisions made from the top.
In late [...]

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Wi-Fi Looks Like the Winner

January 17, 2002

Wi-Fi Looks Like the Winner By Elisa Batista
2:00 a.m. Jan. 16, 2002 PST
Despite analyst pessimism, the Home Radio Frequency Working Group continues to promote its technical standard to wirelessly connect cordless phones, PCs and other electronic home equipment.
Even though Cahners In-Stat Group recently released a study showing HomeRF products losing ground to [...]

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Kerbango Internet Radio Pre-Order..

October 27, 2000

*** Millions of Americans will open their Sunday papers this weekend to find — in addition to the news, weather and sports — that online retail giant Amazon.com has begun accepting pre-orders for the first Kerbango Internet Radios. That’s right, this Sunday the public at large will be able to order a Kerbango Radio for [...]

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