Telecom Executives Business Network

High-Tech Philanthropy leads the way. The tech sector has raised the bar on giving. It is nice to be in this segment, having so much to give and giving so much to those who don't have. Let me hear comments from donors in our sector you've heard about, besides Bill Gates. Bill, maligned for so many years because he did so little, has certainly turned that stigma around.

Let me hear from you... bv
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The mobile handset market has been changing very rapidly as of late with the Apple iPhone being launched, the Google Android platform, LiMo and now the opening up of the Symbian OS (and related technologies).

Nokia plans to buy out the remaining Symbian consortium members in order to facilitate the creation of the Symbian Foundation. From the Symbian Foundation website:

With the need for more and more bandwidth to support consumer demand. Providers are finding it harder and harder to keep up and make a profit. Is Comcast traffic management system http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2008/06/02/daily46.html the wave of the future? Or should content providers pay bandwidth providers for the use of the network? The right answer would seem be to charge the heavy uses an additional fee, Howerver, if you read "Long Tail" by Chris Anderson we should give the bandwidth away and charge for the ads and add ons. The current model is broken so what should be done?

This is an exciting and interesting time in the telecommunications industry with many changes happening or on the horizon. There have been numerous operator and vendor consolidation, new technologies to consider (LTE, WiMax), new entrants into the device arena (iPhone, Android) and even an agreement to create a "common IMS" within 3GPP. And this only scratches the surface of what is going on.

I established the Telecom Executives Business Network (TEBN) to provide a forum for those of us within the industry to share ideas, discuss topics of interest and to network with peers.

Welcome,
Sean Kendall Schneyer