Figuring out FON
By: By Dan O'Shea
Free Wi-Fi and millions of dollars from well-known investors usually are things that are not mentioned in the same sentence. Spain's FON is trying to change that. The company is attempting to leverage the noble aspirations and positive communal feelings of free Wi-Fi and match them with global network scale and a clear corporate revenue model...
The ESPN effect
By: By Dan O'Shea
Back in the late 1970s, when cable TV was a luxury that somehow came to my cousins' house in Manhattan, Kan., before it came to my family in suburban Chicago...
The disruption of the MVNO
By: By Daniel Briere
By now, it's accepted wisdom that there's a role for the mobile virtual network operator to play in the mobile ecosystem...
The legal fight over e-mail
By: By Kevin Fitchard
What was a niche market is now spawning the litigation of a major industry as Research In Motion finds itself fighting for its life in the courtrooms, and other companies rush in to grab its--understandably--nervous customer base...
Third boxcar, midnight train
By: By Tim McElligott
Mobile and ubiquitous Internet-based communications are great tools. But they are also dangerous narcotics. Unfailing access to these drugs can lead a person to think he or she has their habit under control. But try to kick the habit and several things happen...
Advertising to the mobile masses
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Third Screen Media has just released a mobile advertising platform that links advertisers, carriers and content publishers, allowing them to easily interlace ads among all types of mobile content...
How to avoid MVNO failure
By: By Andrew Cole
Of the 15 or so mobile virtual network operators, or MVNOs, entering the market in 2006, at least 40% will fail, and 10% will seriously underperform against expectations...
Give me an A for apps
By: By Kevin Fitchard
There's a lot of talk of fixed/mobile convergence, IP multimedia subsystem architecture and network spanning next-gen apps--of the whiz-bang services of the future that will change our lives...
The prescient MVNE
By: By Tim McElligott
In June 2003, watching its new chick, Visage Mobile, incubate, Advanced Technology Partners general partner Jack Harrington said, "We'll know in about 18 months."...
Cable's wireless foray
By: As told to Jason Meyers
Whitey Bluestein is a San Francisco-based consultant with clients in the MVNO, mobile entertainment, mobile TV, fixed-mobile convergence and CRM/loyalty sectors...
Cingular struts
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Obviously, the big news of the day is Cingular's 3G launch--not like we didn't see it coming. Cingular has a lot to preen about, having launched the world's first commercial HSDPA network...
Marketing over mobile
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Are we ready to let marketers take over our cell phones? A new industry group, the Mobile Marketing Association, claims we are...
Name the future
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Since SBC officially changed its name to AT&T and unveiled its new logo to the media, the blogosphere and industry message boards have predictably gone crazy...
Mobile market fight
By: By Jason Meyers
The long-anticipated entry of the cable operators into the wireless market is upon us, and current players in the mobile market should take heed...
The spectrum of innovation
By: By Jonathan V. Cohen
In the mid-1990s, the FCC's auction of broadband PCS spectrum jolted the cellular industry by introducing new competition to the existing duopoly...
Next year's big thing(s)
By: By Jason Meyers
Toward the end of each year, the editors of Wireless Review take a look at the most compelling trends in wireless...
Cingular's HSDPA play
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Talk about a role reversal. After years of playing catch-up, the U.S. wireless industry became the first to reach a major technology milestone. Cingular yesterday became the first global provider to launch a commercial high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) network. ...
Competition from all corners
By: By Carol Wilson
ce the City of Chicago passed a law making it illegal to drive while talking on a hand-held mobile phone, there has been no serious flood of arrests, but there has been a boom in sales of hands-free devices...
Content unleashed
By: By Kevin Fitchard
If last week's CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment accomplished anything, it proved that the wireless data industry is no longer in the hands of the wireless data industry...
Covad looks to the sky
By: By Kevin Fitchard
You have to give Covad Communications credit. It and its CEO Charlie Hoffman won't go away. Just when the economy or the government throws another obstacle in its path, the company somehow manages to find a new path...
The hard part
By: By Carol Wilson
When Google made its offer to San Francisco to do Wi-Fi for free, the first thought through many minds was that this Internet upstart will be upsetting the apple cart of many an incumbent service giant...
Fixing wireless
By: By Jason Meyers
Next year, two of the largest associations for the telecom industry are launching new and separate trade shows after years of collaborating on Supercomm. Both shows are likely to be engaging for both attendees and exhibitors...
Who's afraid of big, bad Google?
By: By Carol Wilson
The announcement last Friday that Google has offered to deliver free Wi-Fi access throughout San Francisco no doubt sent shivers down a lot of corporate spines. It isn't just that it's Google, the search engine giant already moving into VoIP and many other aspects of Internet-based commerce and communications...
Selling wireless cool
By: By Jason Meyers
Last month I attended a luncheon in Chicago hosted by the Business Marketing Association, which had as its guest speaker Geoffrey Frost, the chief marketing officer of Motorola...
The watcher
By: As told to Dan O'Shea
Mitch Feinman: Introduced the word into the lexicon. A new media guy who went old media when he joined Twentieth Century Fox Television, but now works with the newest media for Fox Mobile...
