Posts Tagged ‘wireless’

Hong Kong: The launch of 3G in China and India by the likes of China Mobile and Bharti Airtel could boost wireless broadband worldwide, sparking a boom in new offerings as millions of users sign up for services. The move to 3G and its likely follow-on, fourth-generation (4G) Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology, is also [...]

The reason most cell phones are so cheap is that wireless carriers subsidize them so you’ll sign a long-term contract. Open access could change the economics of the mobile phone (and mobile data) business dramatically as the walls preventing certain devices from working on certain networks come down. We could also see a rapid proliferation [...]