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This blog is intended to reflect brief comments on current issues in Mobile Satellite Services, highlighting market developments, and new data on the industry. It will also provide a forum to provide...
View ArticleO3b Networks – not a reprise of Teledesic (except perhaps in its ultimate fate?)
This isn’t really an MSS topic, but having worked for several years in the late 1990s on the Teledesic project and with fond memories of evaluating the market for broadband in developing countries, I...
View ArticleUncutting the cord
If the paradigm shift for the telecom industry in the 1990s was the Death of Distance and in the 2000s was Cutting the Cord, then what might the new paradigm be for the next decade? I’d venture to...
View ArticleThe next broadband battle…
As my article yesterday for GigaOm highlighted, the potential ripple effects of an AT&T/DISH deal are almost too numerous to mention. However, in addition to the political consequences, its also...
View ArticleGogo dancing…
Gogo has finally decided to strut its stuff, by filing an S-1 with the SEC in preparation for a potential IPO early next year. However, it needs to put on a very good performance over the next couple...
View ArticleStill going down?
Today Cisco helpfully tweeted out one of the key statistics from their upcoming VNI report, which is scheduled for release on Feb 5, indicating that the “annual run rate” for mobile data traffic in...
View ArticleGoogle’s space odyssey…
Over the last two weeks rumors have swept the satellite industry about Google’s plans to build a huge new broadband satellite constellation (dubbed “son of Teledesic” in a February article). I’ve done...
View ArticleMH370: On the wrong track?
Since the Inmarsat ping data was released almost two weeks ago, I like many others have spent a good deal of time trying to discern what the data tells us. Particular thanks are due to Duncan Steel,...
View ArticleA hundred Superbowls per sq km?
Back in February, I wrote an article for GigaOm, questioning the unrealistic projections of future data traffic produced by the ITU Speculator model. Since then the conclusions of one of the studies I...
View ArticleMH370: analysis of where to look…
Last week’s Wall St Journal article and my blog post highlighted that the MH370 search area was poised to move to the southwest, and yesterday this shift was confirmed by Inmarsat. Although the...
View ArticleNew statement re MH370
The independent group analyzing the loss of MH370 has now issued a new statement, responding to the release of the June 26 ATSB report.
View ArticleReport on ITU Speculator model published
The report I wrote jointly with LS Telcom on “Mobile spectrum requirements estimates: getting the inputs right” has now been published and is available here. This report critiques the ITU Speculator...
View ArticleFurther statements on MH370
The Independent Group has today (September 26) issued a new statement on MH370. The previous statement dated September 9 is available here. In summary, we continue to believe that the ‘most probable’...
View ArticleRound 1 to Wyler…
I’m told that after a fair amount of difficulty and a month or two of delay, Greg Wyler has now successfully secured commitments of about $500M to start building the OneWeb system, and he will...
View ArticleI come to bury Caesar, not to praise him…
Back in October 2012, despite their misleading press release, CTIA’s own data indicated that there had been a significant slowdown in data traffic growth and confirmed that the emperor/FCC Chairman had...
View ArticleCTIA gets it wrong again…
Not content with disinterring the FCC’s infamous October 2010 working paper that most thought had been completely discredited five years ago, last month CTIA went on to commission Brattle Group to...
View ArticleCisco shoots CTIA’s hostage to fortune…
Last June, I pointed out that CTIA had taken the odd (but hardly surprising) decision to run away from its own data on US mobile data traffic growth in 2014, which showed only a 26% increase, in favor...
View ArticleSilicon Valley’s planning problem…
I’ve been thinking a lot about the failure of Google Fiber and if there are any wider lessons about whether Silicon Valley will ever be able to compete effectively as an owner and builder of telecom...
View ArticleAjit Pai wins the internet!
A couple of weeks ago I pointed out that the net neutrality debate has been overwhelmed by ludicrous hyperbole that this is “the end of the internet as we know it“. Of course, that won’t be the case,...
View ArticleLost in SpaceX…
In the run up to Satellite 2018 on March 12 it became clear that Elon Musk was once again spending most of his time on SpaceX business rather than at Tesla (which has pre-occupied him for most of the...
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