As you try to manage your career and get ahead in your world, simple rules can be helpful. I take inspiration from the American TV drama “NCIS” which features “Gibbs’ Rules” as a running theme throughout the show. It occurs to me that there may be many comparable rules in business and in life. Here …
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LTE-U is Unfriendly to Consumers and to WiFi. Let’s Fix it.
Today the wireless industry is gripped by debate over the deployment of LTE services in unlicensed spectrum. Qualcomm is the leading proponent and has recruited support from Telecom Equipment Manufacturers and Mobile Operators. Qualcomm has proposed three separate standards: LTE-U and License Assisted Access (LAA) are targeted geographically. A third proposal called MuLTEfire uses unlicensed …
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Hurricane Sandy’s Legacy
Now that Hurricane Sandy is moving beyond the local destruction it left it is time to rethink our investment priorities. A commitment to improve and harden the nation’s infrastructure could be contemplated. Of course, there are many factors to consider. But in the context laid out by the following bullet points, perhaps a path forward …
Lundberg’s Law of LinkedIn Laziness
It has happened many times over the last couple years: a friend or colleague who has previously been totally inactive on LinkedIn suddenly starts connecting and posting and generally making up for lost time. Many times this indicates a change of employment is imminent or has recently passed. I’ve not read of this phenomenon elsewhere, …
lead up to CTIA in Las Vegas
We arrived in Las Vegas Monday afternoon and immediately jumped into the fray. Meetings started with Don Winters and Tom Prosia of Whitehawk Associates. Whitehawk provides consultants and subject matter expertise to Mobile Operators and other players in the wireless industry. Tom is presently working on an application which collects mobile location and feeds it …