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5 Reasons to Attend CTIA 2011

Everyone likes a party, and CTIA provides ample opportunities for festive networking.  Yet shrinking margins have lead to a downturn in wireless carriers attending industry events and many vendors and investment professionals have followed suit.  Nevertheless, 2011 may be year to come back. LightSquared will announce…something.  The talk on the street is about a Radio Access Network (RAN) sharing with Sprint.  Most speculation centers around a simple space sharing agreement, but new technologies (see below) and…

The NFL Labor Dispute: A Wireless Analogy

As a NLF fan, I am following the current labor dispute with great interest and angst.  Of course, I view everything through a wireless industry lens, so I decided to have have some fun and explore the NFL dispute as an analogy for the wireless industry. The Analogy:  The NFL Owners and Players have reached an impasse over their respective shares of TV revenues and ticket sales.  Similarly, wireless carriers and tower companies are squabbling over appropriate…

Has LightSquared Found a Better Way?

The buzz in the industry is that LightSquared and Sprint (NYSE:S) are in discussions that would allow LightSquared to use Sprint cell sites to deploy its 4G network.  This has potential to be a much faster and cheaper method to deploy the LightSquared network, but there are significant obstacles to this approach. The typical way a new entrant deploys a wireless network is to start the network design with existing cell towers, and then fill in…