GLG News by Communications Equipment Sellers (North America)

With less than 3M CDMA subscribers, Telus' possible decision to migrate to GSM/UMTS is not going to make a significant dent in the CDMA market. Migration will possibly take years and requires a transition period where all users are migrated from one technology to another, assuming the coverage is there....

AT&T reported that it is beginning to see a slow down in its consumer and business market segment.  The impact of economic slow down will be felt in consumer expenditure in TV (entertainment) and fixed line service followed by Internet and Mobile service. Consumer see TV and fixed line...

Wireless equipment vendors continue to be under pressure by the investor community to show top line growth and bottom line performance. They cannot invest in programs (such as Femtocell) that have a return-on-investment (ROI) that is low or break-even point that is far off in the future. Many technology...

With VoIP maturing, Session Border Controllers (SBC) must become more intelligent and take on additional functionalities more cost effectively. One key function is security gateway and it is a natural capability that will be required by the VoIP carriers. As a result, there will be shake up in...

Motorola has no leadership in any core technology, except cable and handset (even though has fallen behind recently in the latter). Motorola must revisit its strategy and decide what to keep and what to let go, especially in wireless radio and infrastructure.

Evolution of CDMA technology beyond EVDO Rev A, B, and C has been UMB (Ultra Mobile Broadband), a technology promoted by Qualcomm. Now that Verizon Wireless, the industry standards leader for CDMA has decided to abandon the CDMA's evolution in favor of LTE (Long Term Evolution), Qualcomm must decide...

After 200 hundred years we have learn nothing. There is nothing secure that isn't in your pocket - you better watch that too. Mars - never been there.

CNN virtual poll. Creating "entertainment" news. Investigative reporting?

I have conflicting views on this subject.  Our company successfully fought a trademark dispute where a company inserted the word plus between the parts of the name of our software ValuePOS and thus our customers were confused as to who was the real ValuePOS.  Since we had been using the name...

More bad news for the CDMA camp! CDMA carriers cannot remain competitive for very long with more carriers opting to move away from that technology and cost/price points/variety of handsets will be at risk. Unfortunately, winning vendors will not be from North America...