Monitoring the Friday Telecom Twittering

These are the current conversations I am following today on Twitter. They are the "what's happening" in mobile that is keeping me interested and tuning my analysis at the moment.

@sesemic is talking about Virgin Mobile Canada as the fifth outlet for iPhone sales.

@wirelessbroad is following the use of netbooks as this big push for mobile broadband.

The move to volume-sell and market computers is a major step for operators used to selling tightly specified handsets under long-standing commercial relationships. To ensure that this move is profitable, operators need to be alive to the risks and to maximise the opportunities for market share growth, pull-through revenue and data service ARPU.

Fair enough, but I'm more interested in what's being put on netbooks. What applications are the big heat-seeking missiles for users right now?

@andrewparkerft is reporting on what he's hearing at the FT telecoms conference and he points out that 3, the mobile provider, won't feel competition from a drop in market participants from five to four. He also, interestingly, points out that Etisalat warns that "network sharing" is urgently needed in Africa.

@Blackipresnews says that Deutsche Telekom is looking for US partners to help grow the T-mobile network, which is building out its HPSA+ network following the launching of that network in the US.

"Cloud-Bursting," by AT & T

Fast Company has a brief mention of the IBM and AT&T cloud computing systems that they are rolling out in the next few years.

Blue Insight by IBM and the AT&T "cloud-bursting" synaptic system will enable data to be stored elsewhere.

Fast Company talks about the security issues with other systems that might make the AT&T system an attractive offer for small businesses:

AT&T's goal seems to be to leverage its big-name status and existing business relationships to attract potential customers who may be wary of cloud computing from other providers, due to data security issues and cybercrime events like Distributed Denial of Service attacks. AT&T will roll out the service to U.S. networks first, and then onto its global data centers so it can be sold to clients around the world.

It's what is available for small enterprises that excites me, because, deductively, I wonder what it is that small business is focused on doing, as a collective.

To me it seems that the small business mindset is:

1. Stay small, in order to grow quickly, virally, in other people's computers, mobile devices and applications.

2. Be outward facing all the time -- no better way to face outward than through synaptic text, data and a collective applications system.

3. Be all over the place, at scale, but small enough that people are not encumbered by your presence. See number one.

This new age of small business, social entrepreneurship, javascript:void(0)social networking and all just keeps going and going.

Startup Wants to Give Embedded Systems Something to Wi-Fi About

ZeroG Wireless wants to create an Internet of things.

The article is not written clearly for me to get enough information on exactly where ZeroG wants to do this, but the idea smacks of building into wireless systems an ability for "things" like operations equipment and monitoring devices to operate across an 802.11b channel.

So, basically your office equipment, from a coffeepot to a copy machine operating without an OS on a wireless architecture. Hello, business and caffe latte by phone!

The company hopes to find design wins in a wide variety of embedded systems from coffee pots and toys to sensor networks in building and industrial automation. It estimates that market could amount to as many as nine billion sockets.

The company's ZG2100, built in 180nm process, supports up to 2Mbit/s data rates. It includes a baseband, media access controller, power amplifier and hardware acceleration for Wi-Fi security standards such as WEP, WPA and WPA2.

The chip uses a host controller to run part of its code. It requires as little as 367bytes of RAM and less than 10Kbytes of ROM from a host micro-controller, according to the company. It can run without an OS.

ZeroG will also ship the chip as part of a module, the ZG2100M, which includes required passives and an integrated antenna. The company has struck a partnership with Microchip Technology Inc. so that its module will support Microchip's existing Internet Protocol (IP) software, tools and development kits.

Speaker Profile: Pilar Caudillo

Over the course of the next couple of months, we will be highlighting some of the speakers that will be at the In-Building Wirlesss Solutions Conference held in Vegas this May. Today I’d like to start off by introducing to you Pilar Caudillo, President and Owner of Unwired Solutions De Mexico and Exitel Telecom.

You might recognize some of the work Pilar Caudillo has done over the years when you take a look at the Torre Mayor, which is the tallest building in Latin America. Unwired Solutions actually developed the first multicarrier inbuilding project in México with Torre Mayor. Here’s an interesting clip from Daily Planet that gives an insider’s tour to Latin America’s tallest building.



Also, here’s a case study on the wireless coverage system for Torre Mayor that was recently forwarded to us.

Don’t miss your chance to see Pilar Caudillo speak at IBWS on European and Latin Market Approaches to Boosting In-Building Take-up.

Inbuilding Wireless Solutions Las Vegas Powers Up

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