Net neutrality is one of the most crucial issues facing the future development of the telecoms industry in general. You can tell from the way that the debate has drifted way off course into hysterical conspiracy-theory territory in the US in recent months.
One of the hot topics at this year’s Mobile World Congress was apps. The good news: consumers want them and will even pay money for them. The bad news: they’re locked into mobile OS platforms that are fragmenting the market for developers – a situation that the mobile industry had been laboring to avoid via organizations like the Open Mobile Alliance.
Whenever a new decade kicks off, it’s always tempting – almost mandatory, actually – to took at the previous one to see what’s changed in the last ten years. In the case of the wireless industry, take devices. Ten years ago, in the pre-3G era, it was all about handsets. Before the iPhone came along, everyone was going bananas over phones like the Motorola Razr and the LG Chocolate phone.
One of the more notable moments at LTE Asia happened during the opening keynotes when Eric Gan, president and chief operating officer at Japanese cellco eMobile, said that he viewed LTE not only as a data play, but also as a viable substitute for FTTH.
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