The Intelligence Group Forms

Right now I am in the process of putting together an Intelligence Group for Mobility Industries.

See below:

It’s time for a world-class globally scalable wireless, 3G and 4G forum that deals with content, applications, systems engineering and general business development for all of the important verticals in the mobile world.

SMART, the global forum for convergence and operational excellence across mobility industries, will be launching in June 2010 in the United States.

From implementation, engineering and distribution to content, user-experience, business development, product development and new frontier uses in transport, healthcare, entertainment, utilities, venues, property development, data and mobile broadband.

We are searching for information on the experience of working in mobile communications from some of the brightest minds in those verticals. We would like to talk with you for five minutes about the most important facets of your job and your industry, so that we can invite you to be a speaker to a forum that faces your industry on a global scale.

If you could take the time to talk with Douglas Crets, Director of the SMART Forum, it would really help us to scale the event accordingly and invite the top people to attend.

You can reach me at +1 646 616 7627 or dcrets@iirusa.com

You can also join our blog, Signal Up, as it gets started and revises itself in this space.

If you are interested in being a blogger (anonymously or named), please email dcrets [@]iirusa [dot] com . We will talk with you about this.

Best,

Douglas Crets
SMART Director
New York, New York
+1 646 616 7627

Black Dot Wireless Lands Contract

The partnership will create new opportunities for Open Range, a WiMax initiative.

More WiMax, please!

Even in a downturn, wireless broadband grows

It's getting to where a guy can't leave the house without getting some wireless broadband reception.

In Southeast Asia, that is.

Broadband Internet penetration in Malaysia -- 21.1 percent of households at the end of 2008 -- lags other Asian countries, such as Singapore and South Korea. But the Malaysian government wants to see that figure increase to 50 percent by the end of 2010.

Whether WiMax plays an important role in extending the reach of broadband Internet services remains to be seen.

WiMax will have to compete for wireless broadband market share with Malaysian cellular operators, offering Internet access over their 3G networks, market research firm IDC said in a report issued earlier this month. WiMax is hampered by limited coverage in Malaysia and established cellular operators will move aggressively to defend their market position from new entrants, it said.