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The Telecom Digest for January 7, 2013
Volume 32 : Issue 7 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
The State of Qualcomm's Modems - WTR1605 and MDM9x25 (Monty Solomon)
Life and Death Online: Who Controls a Digital Legacy? (Monty Solomon)
Google Requires People to Use the Google+ Social Network, Gains Ground Against Facebook (Monty Solomon)
Centurylink restructuring (Bill Horne)
Life After The iPhone: How AT&T's Bet On Apple Mobilized The Company (Bill Horne)
'After launch' update for Verizon Galaxy S3 took six months (Bill Horne)
Rural Proponents Come Out for Lightsquared Proposal (Bill Horne)

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Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 23:21:28 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: The State of Qualcomm's Modems - WTR1605 and MDM9x25
Message-ID: <p0624083ccd0eac07f391@[10.0.1.2]>

The State of Qualcomm's Modems - WTR1605 and MDM9x25

by Brian Klug
AnandTech
1/4/2013

A little over a month ago, Qualcomm flew me out to San Diego to talk
all about cellular modem, specifically their baseband lineup, testing,
and later their RF and transceiver in what would become their largest
RF disclosure ever. In the past few years, we've made considerable
headway getting SoC (System on Chip) vendors to disclose details on
the CPU and GPU side of their products, and mobile enthusiasts now are
starting to become increasingly cognizant of the SoC inside devices,
and in turn the blocks inside that SoC. In a short term the industry
as a whole went from smartphones largely being impenetrable black
boxes to devices with understandable platforms inside. The days of an
OEM not disclosing what SoC was inside a device at all are largely
behind us, and for the most part vendors are open to discussing what's
really inside most of their silicon quite publicly.

The last real remaining black box from my point of view is the 
cellular connectivity side of things. So much of what drives 
smartphone design and OEM choice lately is, unsurprisingly, how the 
device gets connected to the cellular network, and baseband remains 
largely a black box by design for a number of reasons. The focus of 
this article is specifically about Qualcomm's newest transceiver, 
WTR1605L, and some more details about MDM9x25 and MDM9x15.

...

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6541/the-state-of-qualcomms-modems-wtr1605-and-mdm9x25




Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 23:32:38 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Life and Death Online: Who Controls a Digital Legacy?
Message-ID: <p0624083ecd0eae1e711d@[10.0.1.2]>

Life and Death Online: Who Controls a Digital Legacy?

By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER
January 5, 2013

Alison Atkins died on July 27 at age 16. Online, her family is losing 
its hold on her memory.

Three days after the Toronto teen lost a long battle with a colon 
disease, her sister Jaclyn Atkins had a technician crack Alison's 
password-protected MacBook Pro. Her family wanted access to Alison's 
digital remains: Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Yahoo and Hotmail 
accounts that were her lifeline when illness isolated her at home.

"Alison had pictures, messages and poems written that we wanted to 
keep to remember her," says Ms. Atkins, 20, an undergraduate at the 
University of Toronto.

But using Alison's passwords violated some of those websites' terms 
of service, and possibly the law. None of the services allow the 
Atkins family-or any others-to retrieve the passwords of the 
deceased. Their argument is that it would violate Alison's privacy.

...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324677204578188220364231346.html




Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 23:52:19 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Google Requires People to Use the Google+ Social Network, Gains  Ground Against Facebook
Message-ID: <p06240842cd0eb2ee91df@[10.0.1.2]>

There's No Avoiding Google+
By AMIR EFRATI

Google Inc. is challenging Facebook Inc. by using a controversial 
tactic: requiring people to use the Google+ social network.

The result is that people who create an account to use Gmail, YouTube 
and other Google services-including the Zagat restaurant-review 
website-are also being set up with public Google+ pages that can be 
viewed by anyone online. Google+ is a Facebook rival and one of the 
company's most important recent initiatives as it tries to snag more 
online advertising dollars.

The impetus comes from the top. Google Chief Executive Larry Page has 
sought more aggressive measures to get people to use Google+, two 
people familiar with the matter say. Google created Google+ in large 
part to prevent Facebook from dominating the social-networking 
business.

Both Facebook and Google make the vast bulk of their revenue from 
selling ads. But Facebook has something Google wants: Facebook can 
tie people's online activities to their real names, and it also knows 
who those people's friends are. Marketers say Google has told them 
that closer integration of Google+ across its many properties will 
allow Google to obtain this kind of information and target people 
with more relevant (and therefore, more profitable) ads.

...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324731304578193781852024980.html




Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:37:39 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Centurylink restructuring 
Message-ID: <kcd1s4$t7r$1@dont-email.me>

CenturyLink, one [of] the leading telecom companies in the U.S.,has a 
new organizational restructuring plan. The company is combining its new 
network services business sales and operations units into a one single unit.

The network sales and business units were part of Enterprise Markets 
Group's Network Services and Regional Markets Group division. The 
organizational restructuring will enable the company to streamline 
operations and help investors to gain more clarity on the operational 
activities within the business.

http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/89771/centurylink-restructuring-biz

-- 
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)




Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:01:38 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Life After The iPhone: How AT&T's Bet On Apple Mobilized The  Company 
Message-ID: <kcd393$4sr$1@dont-email.me>

Connie Guglielmo, Forbes Staff 1/2/2013

Steve Jobs needed some advice. It was 2006, and Apple was working on the 
design for its first smartphone. Jobs had questions about its radio. So 
he called up Ralph de la Vega, Cingular Wireless' chief operating 
officer, who had helped broker the exclusive deal between Jobs and the 
telco, soon to be part of AT&T Inc., to carry the phone. "How do you 
make this device be a really good phone?" de la Vega recalls Jobs 
asking. "I'm not talking about how to build a keyboard and things 
like that. But I'm saying the innards of a radio that worked well."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/connieguglielmo/2013/01/02/life-after-the-iphone-how-atts-bet-on-apple-mobilized-the-company/

-or-

http://goo.gl/CS1zi

-- 
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)




Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:28:09 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: 'After launch' update for Verizon Galaxy S3 took six months  
Message-ID: <kcd1ab$q93$1@dont-email.me>

How long is too long to provide an update "after launch?" A half-year 
feels late for Verizon to finally deliver on its promise to enable 
global roaming for the Galaxy S3.

by Danny Sullivan January 6, 2013

The good news is that owners of the Samsung Galaxy S3 through Verizon 
now have global roaming capabilities. The bad news is that Verizon 
apparently believes the "sometime after launch" promise it made equals a 
half-year wait.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57562260-94/after-launch-update-for-verizon-galaxy-s3-took-six-months/

-or-

http://goo.gl/kUZvv

-- 
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)




Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:17:06 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Rural Proponents Come Out for Lightsquared Proposal 
Message-ID: <kcd0li$m0l$1@dont-email.me>

by Andrew Berg 01/04/2013

A number of comments were filed today with FCC, encouraging the
commission to approve Lightsquared's most recent proposal to give up
10 MHz of spectrum located closest to the GPS band and instead share
spectrum currently used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA). As part of the plan, Lightsquared would pair 5
MHz of spectrum at 1675-1680 MHz currently used for government weather
balloons with its existing 5 MHz of spectrum at 1670-1675.

http://www.wirelessweek.com/news/2013/01/rural-proponents-come-out-lightsquared-proposal

-or-

http://goo.gl/uXDV6

-- 
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)






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