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Matt Hickey from Crunch Gear just explained why. It seems as if you’re a Verizon Wireless customer, your wireless broadband may have just gotten faster. Just eleven days after announcing plans to light-up its 3G EV-DO Rev. A network, Verizon has issued eleven press releases saying that today it has done just that. And the service has been remarksable in Maine … not the case tonight in Massachusetts but maybe its the snow that is coming … Matt gave this link for the Verizon press releases
Tim Wu, a copyfightin’ net-neutrality-advocatin’ law prof at Columbia, has posted a draft of a new, stunning paper on net neutrality as it might apply to mobile carriers. In “Wireless Network Neutrality,” Wu demonstrates the way that the wireless carriers have adopted the same bad practices that led to landmark action against the wire-line phone companies in the middle of the 20th Century. Wu makes a compelling case for changing wireless regulation to require the same minimal neutrality from wireless carriers that wired carriers are currently bound to — after all, those neutrality rules were responsible for an incredible leap in innovation and telecoms profits. With walled gardens, limits on handsets and handset features, deceptive billing and crummy, fake-ass Internet services, the carriers are slitting their own throats. Wu’s paper contains solid, specific proposals for new rules that would benefit everyone:
Cable & Wireless International (CWI) and Alvarion, the world’s leading provider of WiMAX and wireless broadband solutions, announced the signing of a global frame agreement in which CWI has selected Alvarion’s BreezeMAX system for fixed and mobile (802.16e) deployments. Alvarion’s award-winning BreezeMAX is the most deployed WiMAX system in the world with over 300 installations in more than 100 countries. CWI has already deployed the first network in Antigua offering service beginning in December 2006. The WiMAX network deployment provides broadband to business and residence customers, using the BreezeMAX Pro and BreezeMAX Si customer premises equipment.
Early Deployment Challenges - some kind of way to dynamically change channels on wireless networks, and find products to address scalability and coverage. - trying to get to a single system to allow users to go anywhere, be able to open up their laptops, and work without IT intervention. Machine and user certs. Automatic renewal of certs.
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Just attended a workshop on wireless mobility sponsored by Verizon. Speakers from Blackberry, Verizon, and Microsoft, gave 30 minute presentations on how mobile devices can enhance productivity. Todd Eckman from Lockheed Martin gave the keynote speech during the box lunch that was provided. Part of his presentation included a video "commercial" showing what Lockheed Martin is doing with wireless technology. It was especially interesting since many of the examples were from Hanford, the local DOE instalation. The Tri-Cities does not yet have high-speed 'EvDO' access but the Verizon rep said plans are to have it available by the first of the year. Even with just 'regular' mobile wireless internet access, anyone whose job requires them to spend alot of time out of the office can remain productive. The Verizon rep was quick to point out that with a verizon data card, "you are the hotspot."
Is it any surprise that education struggles to adapt to the implications of mobile networks? After all, we work in an environment where many of our colleagues complain if desks are moved out of their "proper" alignment in rows. Just as moving desks into a big circle or rearranging them in small groups creates different communicational dynamics, different netowrks. Ok, it's a very loose analogy, but it's at least a point of reference from the context of everyday teaching. Mobility matters. So what's my point? iTunes U and podcasting have a range of uses unto themselves. And as is often pointed out, you don't need an iPod to use them. The result though of this logic is that we don't require students to purchase iPods (though many have them) and that faculty don't need them either. I realize the logistical and budgetary issues here, especially in a developing situation like this one where the technologies are in such a state of flux. However, I want to make an argument for the importance of mobility in this context.
