GLG News by Council Members in North America who know Wireless Data Services Software

Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint is focusing on the customer service and new wireless product aspects to help turn his failing business around.  He is also moving forward with a joint WiMax venture with Clearwire, supported by financing from Comcast, Time Warner, Brighthouse, Intel, and Google. ...

China Mobile is keen on the Android phones.  In addition to HTC, China Mobile has formed a joint venture with a local startup to build Android phones. 

The HTC Android phone will be closely compared with the 3G iPhone.  Most likely the look and feel won't be as sleek as the iPhone.  However, Android phones will have the processing speed that is hard to beat.  In addition, the open handset model features may not initially be impressive. ...

ATT needs to offer as close a package/service bundle as they can to their CATV competitors' offerings.  HD is a major service product and has much interest from TV/Video customers, and up until now, ATT can only offer 2 HD streams to the home simultaneously feeding two different HD TV sets.  The...

This article refers to Qwest moving away from video over internet protocol in several cities where they have it in play now, instead opting to use DirecTV to provide video and lock down customers away from cable.  ATT, however, is building the same video IP platform and appears to be sticking...

Text messaging along with other data services is key to post-paid carriers profitability today since their market is so saturated.  Carriers know this and are using it to advance their income by doubling rates from 10 to 20 cents per message unless a subscriber is on a monthly data plan. ...

Qwest has been floundering as a phone company for years, having to deal with PSC fines and general business issues, which appeared to be keeping them from setting goals on newer technology and moving ahead with data sales in particular.  Their FTTNode strategy appears to be solving some of their...

If Sprint sells their iDEN network about the only positive for Sprint is that it would give them sorely needed cashflow.  But I think it would also make Sprint even less signigicant of a player in the wireless industry than they already are.

If Verizon agrees to wage increases and medical benefit changes that AT&T doesn't want to accept, this can have severe complications on the AT&T/CWA negotiations scheduled to begin in April, 2009.  AT&T, however, also have many possible changes to the current CWA contract that may inflame...

Frontier has shown growth in broadband lines while its larger counterparts (T and VZ) are having difficulties  showing positive growth in that segment.  We need to study the reasons why Frontier is doing so well, even though they are seeing heavy wireline losses like all the telco players,...