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Birla’s group Idea snapped up Spice, one of the last stand alone players in the market. Idea cellular is no angel in white. Spice isn’t the best thing to have happened to mobile industry ever although, they were among the initial telecom players to have 900 Mhz spectrum and were the only big players having […]

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People try hard to protect everything they own. They secure their cars, boats and houses, but often overlook their wireless routers.

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I’m going for the sensational in the headline, but it’s part of the story’s intro, too: The New York Times reports on some early uses of the city’s $500m wireless network designed for non-public uses. The network uses UMTS over licensed spectrum specifically devoted the city’s municipal and public safety purposes.

One of the projects leaders uses terms that should warm every New Yorker’s heart, if he or she knew what they meant. IT head Paul Cosgrave says the system will overcome silos, an often disparaging term for the separation of resources across groups that can only expensively be overcome. It’s the government and business equivalent of the academic problem of a lack of cross-discipline focus.

One of the first applications allows sanitation workforce managers a frighteningly precise amount of knowledge about routes, activities, and behavior of trucks in their territory. Let’s hope that’s not misused! Efficiency is one thing; micro-management is another.

Another project is testing wireless water-meter reading. The city hopes to spend $90 per meter for the upgrade and shed part of a $12.2m contract with Con Edison that covers 850,000 units. What should be useful about this is that problems can be detected by monitoring waterflow patterns, which in turn allows the often huge problems that take months to notice (occurring underground or in basements where rivers formerly flowed) to be stopped before they turn into multi-million-dollar problems for property owners or the city. Anytime anything happens in Manhattan, it’s a multi-million dollar problem.

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The New York Times takes guided Wi-Fi tour: An interesting article by Seth Kugel avoids the usual, “here’s where you find Wi-Fi approach.” Rather, he tours the city, pairing Wi-Fi with historical and political details you can find around you. Kugel, like our faithful correspondent Klaus Ernst, has found that CBS MobileZone is a no-show. The advertising group told him that they were improving the signal. I love the idea of super-local information, too. With Google Maps, Google Earth, Flickr, Dopplr, and other services, you can pair your current location with what’s happening right around you in the past or right now.

Oakland County, Mich., project officially “on hold”: For “on hold,” read, “never going to be built.” The pilot area in seven communities has been turned off, and MichTel has been unable to obtain the $70-odd million they project needed to build out the county-wide service. The state’s ongoing reliance on the automotive industry makes it a hard sell to commit public dollars in advance of a return on those dollars, too.

Virgin Mobile buys Helio: The last vestiges of EarthLink’s three-pronged approach to fighting the wireline monopoly appears to be at an end. EarthLink pushed its 50-50 partnership with SK Telecom in mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) Helio as one prong; its municipal Wi-Fi division as another; and its DSL business as a third. The muni division is nearly out of operation, and DSL lines continue to fall in quantity quarter over quarter. Dial-up is still their cash cow. Helio lost hundreds of millions to obtain just 170,000 subscribers (that number down from 200,000 at the start of 2008). EarthLink will receive a pittance for its investment, part of the $39 million in stock that Virgin will pay for Helio; SK Telecom will invest in Virgin Mobile to obtain a total 17 percent state. Virgin itself makes just a very tiny sliver of profit. MVNOs buy minutes and data from carriers, and Virgin Mobile involves Sprint as a partner, making it the only tolerably successful MVNO.

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If you feel you have a flair for writing, feel free to apply for the guest posts. I would be glad to carry any alternative view point with your concurrence of course, over here. This is a labour of love and has no remuneration at all. Therefore totally voluntary. If interested, write in to me […]

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I have no clue as to why the Indians are obessed about snapping up deals with South Africans. Although, it’s commendable when Indian companies snap up struggling European majors; the same that Tata did for Corus and Tetley Tea. Although, I still insist that it makes the worst cars on the road in the planet […]

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Birla’s group Idea snapped up Spice, one of the last stand alone players in the market. Idea cellular is no angel in white. Spice isn’t the best thing to have happened to mobile industry ever although, they were among the initial telecom players to have 900 Mhz spectrum and were the only big players having […]

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Chrysler’s in-car Internet $30 per month: The service, announced today but leaked yesterday, will cost about $450 and $35 to $50 for installation, using Autonet’s system. The monthly fee is $30. I’m not sure I’m in love with the idea, because at that price, you could buy a Junxion box or equipment from another maker, and have the flexibility to move the portable hotspot around or stick an adapter into a computer. It might make sense for fleet deployments, though.

Alltel launches domestic US hotspot service: Alltel is reselling Boingo’s offering at $20 per month or $4 per day with no commitment. That’s 25,000 US hotspots. The No. 5 cell operator, which is in the process of being acquired by Verizon, also runs a EVDO network available nationally as part of a Verizon partnership (Alltel covers a ton of areas Verizon doesn’t), which costs $60 per month. Combine Wi-Fi and 3G and pay $70 per month.

Beijing’s Wi-Fi network launches with a limp; no 3G at Olympics, either: The Wall Street Journal says the WiCity project that will cover the Olympic venue with Wi-Fi (about 100 sq km) got off to a rough start at its launch, with reports from their bureau and others of poor signal strength; no answer on the customer-support hotline; and broken links on the Web site. The blog entry also notes that visitors who expect 3G over their cell will be bitterly disappointed, as anyone in the industry knows: China didn’t adopt either worldwide 3G standard. They claim that their own TD-SCDMA 3G technology will be up and running in time, but that won’t really help visitors much, now will it? I’m surprised no waivers were granted to run temporary cell installations for EVDO and HSPA just for the games. Wouldn’t have been that big a deal.

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