LightSquared LTE to cover all of the USA by 2015.
Harbinger Capital Partner announced it’s plan to build a 7 billion USD, open, wholesale 4G wireless network that will cover most of the USA.
Sue Marek from Fierce Wireless wrote an article about the plan, and remained rather skeptical – Will a private a private-equity firm be able to beat the major industry players such as AT&T? remains to be seen.
A rather optimistic promotional video for LightSquared.
Ericsson is starting to ship LTE equipment in volumes
Demand for 4G LTE grow stronger in USA in particular as Verizon Wireless and MetroPCS are planning to deploy new 4G networks.
Federal help for rural areas phone network development being criticized
As wireless networks become more popular, the government funding for phone networks is being criticized, costing as much as thousand USD for a single resident.
“Chatroulette” founder wants to ditch text chat and focus on video entirely
In an interview for newteevee.com, the founder of the popular video-chat site Chatroulette wants to ditch text entirely – ” Someday we will replace the main page with the new system“.
Global Crossing is entering the telepresence market, based on Teliris Ltd. Products
Global Crossing will also offer the Teliris 6G telepresence system with scalable video coding.
UK broadband test speeds turn “shameful” for many ISPs
In UK, ISPs are “Shamed by UK Broadband Speed Tests” according to lightreading.com.
Actual broadband speeds of packages like the 8-10mbit/s DSL are actually 3.3Mbit/s. The study also shows Virgin Media Inc. supply better results than Oranke UK, BSkyB Ltd. And TalkTalk Telcom.
Polycom and McAfee Alliance to Further Secure Unified Communications and Collaboration
IMTC member, Polycom, announced an alliance with McAfee (Anti-Virus maker and computer security company) in order to develop and market Unified Communication security solutions.
Telepresence Robot from Japan
Osaka University and Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) have collaboratively developed a new portable teleoperated android robot – “Telenoid R1”. This robot mimics human appearance in a “minimal” way, thus does not look like a male or female, nor young or old. The Telenoid R1 sync its movement to the movements of the operator, remotely, via a PC with a special software recognition of eye mouth and head movements. Indeed, an unusual and futuristic approach for telepresence.
