RCR has a note on their website of the current handset providers. Motorola still maintaining a commanding lead. Interesting tidbit –
Bluetooth and music playback are two features becoming rapidly commonplace among feature phones. Of all feature phones, 72% sold include Bluetooth, up 44% year-on-year. Half of all phones sold include music playback, a 100% jump over the year-ago quarter.
I.e., a convergence of functions is occuring. That will continue of course. What shape it will take is anybody’s guess. But in the end the universal communicator-compute device will emerge.
OneMax in concert with Alacatel-Lucent has implemented what is the first wide area deployment of 802.16. Not only that but they demonstrated transition capability of the service tower to tower.
“This achievement highlights the readiness of our network today, to offer a whole new range of compelling broadband services to residents of the Dominican Republic as well as visitors,” said Raoul Fontanez, Onemax’s CEO. “This collaboration with Alcatel-Lucent’s also is enabling us to give our customers and other distinguished guests a taste of some of the more advanced multimedia services that we will be able to introduce in the future.”
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Filed under 802.xx, Alcatel, Lucent, VoIP, Wimax by Dr. Dog
Third Pipe dark horse Sprint continues to award the larger market builds of its Wimax network non-incumbent telco equipment provider Samsung. This must be driving the Nortel / Alcatel / Lucent equipment Cabal crazy. The move is understandable since the cabal’s engineering operations are deeply embedded with their largest customers - AT&T and Verizon - and secrets are hard to keep among comrades. Then again a REAL mobile capable broadband pipe has the potential to permanently disrupt the dominance of AT&T and Verizon in mobile services.
article on Yahoo News
