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ValleyWag.com - “I will mock you when calamity overtakes you - when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you.”

-- Finally, it’s not clear whether Google will become the prevailing bidder for any of the spectrum. Google will nevertheless probably emerge as the biggest winner in the auction. The company had previously said would be willing to spend $4.6 more...

Beyond about a mile from the base station non-line of sight performance was "non-existent", and regular indoor use produced latencies as high as 1000ms even just 400m away.

From my point of view, Sprint comes across as arrogant and doesn’t seem to care too much for its reputation or its customers. You lost over a million mobile users and continue to operate with a “so what” attitude. It more...

good tear down of the two technologies and politics / policies around them

“As 802.11n slowly crawls toward becoming a wireless standard, IT managers have to decide whether it's the right time to switch. Unfortunately, the standard is stuck in draft status. Here's why.”

Verizon just bought a big piece of the "any device, any app" spectrum which becomes available early 2009. The company says it will let handset makers buy airtime at wholesale rates and resell the minutes to consumers under their own more...

“Canada’s AWS auction finally finished yesterday, and there should be no doubt about the perceived value of wireless spectrum. The final take was $4.25 billion – that’s a lot of free money for the federal government, and that raises an more...

Sprint isn’t just losing millions of customers and billions of dollars, it’s in the midst of pioneering a new management philosophy. We’ll call it the Three-Megabit Monte. Similar to the venerable street con, this is where Sprint leads a customer more...

Worth a quick read. A good portent for the smartphone industry. A decade after the first devices were conceived it seems as if they might finally be heading to the mainstream.