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Editor's Perspective
Guessing about portability
By Dan O'Shea
June 10, 2003
There has been very little certain about wireless local number portability, the one exception being that most industry insiders were pretty certain going into last week that a circuit court ruling wouldn't postpone portability any longer. It didn't.
With that one certainty out of the way, a whole lot of guesswork resumes:
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How will portability be implemented? The
CTIA says the
FCC has been pushing portability on the wireless industry without proper implementation guidelines. The CTIA is urging the FCC to issue some final guidelines by Labor Day.
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How much churn will it cause? Observers such as the consultants at
Acumen Solutions and
inCode Telecom see a surge in churn coming, but likely a short-term one before things settle down again. That churn surge could be mitigated by well-timed new service promotions and loyalty programs--or could be worsened by the lack of them.
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Who's in big trouble? Mobile Ecosystem principal Mark Lowenstein said in his "Lowenstein's Lens on Wireless" newsletter that
Cingular Wireless may be most susceptible to a negative impact, with less loyal customers to begin with, and a network in transition. Still, customers can have many different reasons to change, and even as a strong brand wins over some, the lack of certain features, quality or prices could make others leave.
Some well-researched observations have been made about how portability will affect the wireless market, but you have to think a lot of these forecasts could easily go the other way if users turn out to be more informed, less informed or more fickle than we think now. We'll all begin to find out on Nov. 24.
E-mail me at doshea@primediabusiness.com.
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Top News
Cingular jumps in the bucket with telcos
By Glenn Bischoff
June 5, 2003
SBC Communications and
BellSouth, along with their joint venture Cingular Wireless, announced a service for residential customers that will give them greater flexibility in how they use their wireless and wireline minutes.
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Court keeps wireless LNP on track
By Glenn Bischoff
June 6, 2003
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected a petition filed by the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association and
Verizon Wireless that would have blocked the FCC's wireless number portability mandate scheduled to take effect on Nov. 24.
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Spectrum task force in the making
By Glenn Bischoff
June 5, 2003
President George Bush called for the formation of a federal task force that would produce detailed recommendations for improving spectrum management policies and procedures.
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Reporter's Notebook
Vivato launches outdoor switch
By Dan O'Shea
June 4, 2003
As planned since its launch of an indoor Wi-Fi switch a few months ago,
Vivato unveiled its outdoor switch last week at Supercomm.
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WiMAX adds more members
By Dan O'Shea
June 10, 2003
WiMAX, the industry association working to promote the 802.16 metropolitan area network standard, today announced 18 new members, including
TowerStream, the first carrier to join the effort.
The group also announced the completion of initial system profiles for the interoperability of products operating in the 2 GHz to 11 GHz frequency band.
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Deal of the Week
Palm acquires Handspring
By Kevin Fitchard
June 4, 2003
Palm announced a $169 million deal to acquire rival and licensing customer
Handspring and spin off its OS development arm in an effort to consolidate two of the major players in the PDA industry under one umbrella.
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C-Level
Mobileway finds Tallent
Compiled by Dan O'Shea
June 10, 2003
Mobileway, a wireless data and content billing provider, has named Vince Tallent as chief financial officer. Tallent is a telecom veteran, having worked at MediaOne International, BT, Omnisky and Mobile Systems International, among other firms.
In other executive appointments, software provider
SandCherry has named Michael Sajor vice president of mobility solutions. Sajor was most recently with multimodal platform vendor
Kirusa, and previously had worked at
Lucent Technologies.
Meanwhile, Teltier has hired former carrier executive Jim Ryan as executive vice president.
Ryan previously was with European mobile carrier
O2.
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