Vodafone and Verizon are again in the news. I’ve posted a recent story to our message boards, and written about them previously in the context of the upcoming American 700 MHz auctions. (Full disclosure: I used to work for AirTouch, which was acquired by Vodafone, and for Arun Sarin, now CEO of Vodafone.) The recent news is about their difficulties getting along together and about the possibility that the dividend Verizon pays to Vodafone, as a major stockholder, might not be paid again until 2010 or later. Continue reading “Verizon and Vodafone stir the pot”
Site home page is now dynamic
Overnight I implemented a script that dynamically generates the home page. The purpose of this change is to give better visibility to new information and reader contributions. Off to the side you can see sections showing recent entries into our message boards, recent reader comments to our blog , most popular forum topics.
There’s much left to be done. The style sheet for the blog is not 100% synced up with our home page, though that ought to require a relatively modest effort. The far greater challenge will be to extend our look and feel into our message boards. That’s one of the challenges of open source software: reverse-engineering someone else’s style sheet.
Stay tuned, and thanks for being a part of the TeleTips Network.
Google scores a victory for consumers
So today the American Federal Communications Commission decided to make the winner of the upcoming 700MHz spectrum auctions accept terminals and applications from 3rd-parties. This was at the suggestion of Google and others, and is excellent news for American consumers. It likely will lead to more handsets from which to choose and more innovative applications being available more quickly. Probably it also will mark the beginning of the end of the glory days for America’s incumbent mobile operators.
This ruling heralds much more difficult times for America’s coddled mobile operators. Handset choice and the ready access to innovative applications are not what they are known for. These will force them to change their current business models, which is likely to reduce their margins as well as their subscriber numbers. Their good times now have a hard stop.
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Starent 16000 PDSN MOP – Adding IP Pools
Purpose
The purpose of this Method Of Procedure (MOP) is to add ranges of IP Addresses, called “pools”, to the Starent 16000 PDSN. An IP address from an IP pool is assigned to a subscriber by the PDSN when a data session is initiated.
Procedure
Begin this procedure by creating a backup of the PDSN configuration file. Use the copy command to create a new configuration file.
[local]pdsn1# copy /flash/system.cfg /flash/system.backupfile.cfg <CR>
The file called system.backupfile.cfg is created as a contingency in the event a problem occurs during execution of this method.
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Starent 16000 PDSN Troubleshooting
I’ve been working for a couple months now to create the software infrastructure for allocating wireless data network resources based upon the product purchased by the subscriber. This means granting them access to the purchased resources, and denying access to other resources. This is one of the functions of the PDSN, in cooperation with the AAA server.
I post trouble reports and questions as they arise to the TeleTips Message Board for the Starent PDSN. Here is a step-by-step procedure for testing on the PDSN. Continue reading “Starent 16000 PDSN Troubleshooting”