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		<title>Random Quote in Telephony online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere toward the bottom.  I didn&#8217;t mean wireless carriers exclusively, my point was that all operators have an inherent advantage over content providers.  But point made for me, I suppose&#8230;
Finding telecoms link in the value chain.
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		<title>Net Neutrality and reality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting post in Financial Times today.  
Personally, I think that net neutrality will force operators to innovate a bit &#8212; this isn&#8217;t about discriminating against heaviest users, it&#8217;s about changing the business model from flat rate all-you-can-eat access to one in which heavy usage isn&#8217;t a problem that requires random throttling.  Operators should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishoover.org/uncategorized/net-neutrality-and-reality/</link>
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		<title>The telecom subscriber model will change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just completed a guest blog post at Telco 2.0 pointing out that the SLAs involved in new business models, coupled with the fundamental driver behind those business models (bandwidth as a scarce and valuable resource), will put wireless operators in a position of allocating resources selectively.
That is, in times of high demand, a choice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishoover.org/uncategorized/the-telecom-subscriber-model-will-change/</link>
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		<title>18 billion reasons wireless bandwidth is a scarce, valuable resource</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great story in NYT today on the effect the iPhone is having on the ATT network.  Directly related to my argument that wireless bandwidth is as a scarce, valuable resource will be the foundation of next generation business models.
Killer quotes:
[Because of network capacity being sucked up by iPhones] The result is dropped calls, spotty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishoover.org/telecom/18-billion-reasons-wireless-bandwidth-is-a-scarce-valuable-resource/</link>
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		<title>Amazon links cloud to enterprise data centers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Take a look
Not to beat this drum too loudly, but cloud computing is among the one or two key truly significant changes that affect the telecom industry, dramatically expanding a business&#8217; reliance on the network and dramatically increasing data volume &#8212; particularly data volume through cell sites as roaming employees access documents and other business [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishoover.org/new-business-models/amazon-links-cloud-to-enterprise-data-centers/</link>
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		<title>Study: IT shops have cash in hand for cloud computing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Study: IT shops have cash in hand for cloud computing: &#8221;
More data showing showing growth of cloud computing.  Most relevant to telecom is this growth in the context of Netbooks, and the resultant deluge of data volume. 
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		<link>http://www.chrishoover.org/telecom/study-it-shops-have-cash-in-hand-for-cloud-computing/</link>
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		<title>HTML 5: Another reason netbooks are the more important to mobile operators than cell phones.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Article in PC world talks about HTML 5 in the context of the Google announcements today (http://tinyurl.com/mk8krj)

HTML5 is a standard that is still being developed and is likely to remain so for several years. Its focus on running applications within the browser is an important driver of interest in cloud computing, where applications live somewhere [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishoover.org/technology/html-5-another-reason-netbooks-are-the-more-important-to-mobile-operators-than-cell-phones/</link>
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		<title>LTE: Emphasis on &#8220;long?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Unstrung: http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=176867&#038;
T-Mobile and Orange are both saying that LTE has many technology hurdles to overcome before it is viable for their networks (Verizon and NTT&#8217;s aggressive plans notwithstanding).
The operators&#8217; concerns with LTE include: support for voice services; the impact on backhaul capacity; intellectual property rights; the lack of standardization for self-organizing networks (SONs); and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishoover.org/telecom/lte-emphasis-on-long/</link>
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		<title>The approaching deluge of mobile data traffic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve read a number of reports speculating about mobile data growth lately and it strikes me that they typically omit what I believe is the most significant evolution affecting mobile data.  iPhones and similar are great and have certainly accelerated the market, but they are nothing compared to the impact (and opportunity for network [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishoover.org/technology/the-approaching-deluge-of-mobile-data-traffic-beyond-imagination/</link>
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		<title>The free market will dictate the terms of net &#8220;neutrality&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Article in the WSJ today talks about the network impact of the iPhone:  http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&#38;symbol=t
Users of iPhone download games, video and other Web data at two to four times the rate of other smartphone users, according to comScore. Yet AT&#38;T charges iPhone subscribers the same fee of $30 a month for data that it levies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishoover.org/uncategorized/the-free-market-will-dictate-the-terms-of-net-neutrality/</link>
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