Telecoms Around the Web, April 2017

We survey several popular websites for technical Telecoms content. 3G4G Blog Zahid Ghadialy has long been one of my favorite commentators in the technology space. He writes Self-backhauling: Integrated access and backhaul links for 5G.  This is essentially a discussion of the interference challenges posed by wireless cell site backhaul.  Zahid explains with this diagram:

Court says FCC Cannot impose net neutrality rules

In a landmark ruling sure to be appealed to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, a federal appeals court has ruled that the FCC has no legal authority to impose net neutrality rules on Internet Service Providers (ISPs.) Net neutrality proponents immediately responded that ISPs should be brought under FCC jurisdiction similar to that …

John Gilman launches Clear in Hawaii September 17th.

Stats Mobile Broadband Growth in the US expected to double over the next two years. 11 M – 2009 19 M – 2010 28 M – 2011 2.5 GHz Spectrum in U.S., averaging 120 MHZ in major markets 540 Mbps per cell site vs. 45 190 Mbps from the competition Launch dates launch to existing …

TeleTips Network Joining Forces with Telecom Voices

We’re pleased to announce that TeleTips Network is partnering with Telecom Voices, adding our voice to their coverage of Telecoms. Telecom Voices is a site dedicated to rebroadcasting blogs focused on Telecoms, allowing a wide diversity of Telecoms ideas to be found and read on a single web site. The posts of TeleTips Network will …

RIM experiences yet another network failure

Information Week is reporting that  BlackBerry Users Experience Service Outage What’s going on over at RIM?  Is this the 3rd or 4th highly publicized network failure they’ve experienced in the last year or so? Running a network is a highly repetitive, process-oriented business.  Not much sex and magic involved.  Widespread service-affecting events are signs of …