Category: Wireless
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Sparklink – The Biggest Wireless Standard You Have Never Heard About
We imagine that most readers here are familiar with all the major wireless standards. So familiar that it is boring. We do not write much about wireless standards anymore, beyond the expectations…
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What comes next for Venture?
Creative destruction is coming for the venture investing space. Gloomy as this feels now, the cycle will eventually turn, and we are very curious as to what new form the industry will…
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Qualcomm’s Edge Opportunity
Qualcomm remains a leader in connectivity, and as the need for compute at the edge (including AI) grows, the company’s connectivity products could spark a new path to growth.
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ERIC in Charge
AT&T’s deal with Ericsson providers them with a big discount, but risks putting Ericsson in the driver’s seat for O-RAN, short circuiting the strategic leverage AT&T seeks with its “open” network. AT&T…
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Revisiting Personal Area Networks
The idea of personal area networks has been around for a long time, but advances in technologies and transmission technologies, like those from Ixana, offer a glimmer of hope that consumer electronics…
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Did AT&T and Ericsson Finish off O-RAN?
AT&T took the highly unusual step of moving to a single vendor for its RAN. There is no technical reason for this. Economics (probably with some subsidies) and a quest for “open”…
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The Problem Child
Qualcomm seems to be fighting everyone, all the time. They even seem to have beef with Google, on whose Android Qualcomm’s future depends. They need to rethink their entire approach to sales…
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The Bad Romance of Apple and Qualcomm
Apple’s antipathy towards Qualcomm pre-dates the launch of the iPhone and seems to be deeply ingrained in their culture. Qualcomm would probably be very flexible to normalize the relationship, but has limits…
