It's Tuesday, November 27, 2007, the day the wireless walled gardens began crumbling. Welcome back to Good Day, BWIA, a light compendium of news, items of interest, irreverent commentary, and occasional light analysis relating to Broadband Wireless Internet Access (including WiMAX, public access Wi-Fi, etc.).
Verizon Wireless hammers the first chunks out of its walled garden It's shocking, at first glance, that Verizon Wireless has announced that in 2008 it will (finally) offer a "bring your own" option for devices not sold by, or designed for Verizon Wireless to operate on its network. But seen in the bigger context of seismic changes roiling the wireless telephony industry, Verizon really had no choice. One of Verizon Wireless' previous marketing phrases was "It's The Network", but they're slowly coming to realize is that, from the customer's perspective, It's Not The Network, but rather What You Can Do / What Devices Can You Use... On (A) Network, that matters the most. This development rates a dedicated article, which I'll post later today, err.. Wednesday.
Today's Clearwire Modem Weather Report - Hollywood Hill, Woodinville, Washington - Solid 4 Bars; dry, cool, sunny today - the OFDM seems to be loafing.
The WiMAX 2007 conference in Munich, Germany starts today and runs through November 29th. The promoters are claiming to offer some emphasis on WiMAX deployments in Eastern Europe. I've been hearing of agressive and innovative deployments of fixed WiMAX systems in Eastern Europe for several years now to address the poor wireline telecommunications infrastructure. With little competition from wireline services, new Mobile WiMAX services have the potential to leapfrog Eastern Europe into the forefront of the movement towards Broadband Internet, Anywhere. (From BWIA Calendar)
Capsule summary of Public Safety Spectrum Trust (PSST) for 700 MHz PS band The Public Safety Spectrum Trust Corporation (PSST) is a non-profit corporation organized under the laws of the District of Columbia to become the public safety broadband licensee (PSBL), as directed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), for an interoperable nationwide broadband network for public safety. The mission of the PSST is to provide national public safety leadership an organizational structure through which decisions can be made to guide the construction and operation of this interoperable nationwide broadband network via a public safety-commercial partnership and to ensure the communications requirements of the public safety community are met.
The BWIA-related news and blogosphere are pretty much dominated by the Verizon Wireless news today, so I'll close out GDBWIA a bit more tersely than usual. Chat with you tomorrow.
I was ably assisted this morning by Editorial Assistant Mackenzie, who thought my feet could stand to be a bit warmer.
By Steve Stroh
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