wireless connections
Got back from the Wireless Connections conference in Banff and I was very glad to go.
Good to get the contacts back up and see people I had not seen for a while.
I was called into a panel discussion when a speaker cancelled. The discussion was on the difficulties mobile application developers have getting into carriers ie becoming commerical.
I was on the panel with Robert Davies P.Eng. Senior Scientist at TRLABS (www.trlabs.ca) and ajunct professor at the University of Calgary and James Maynard, President of Wavefront (www.wavefrontac.com). Duane Sniezek, P.Eng. Director Operations, TRLabs Calgary and COO of NEWT (www.newt.trlabs.ca) moderated the discussion.
The discussion moved to the future mobile space.
I put out my future gazing and speculation. I see Google buying Sprint not for subscribers but for the tower agreements. Google is looking to buy the 700 MHz sprectrum and they need to deploy somehow. The FCC has mandated this should be open.
TRLabs creates innovative technologies and trains students to enhance ICT expertise and improve Canada’s global competitiveness. Five labs across the prairie provinces employ university professors, graduate students, industrial partners, and staff researchers.
Wavefront is the commercialization bridge between the wireless developer community in British Columbia and the mobile operators, government and large enterprises that are deploying new wireless products and services. In collaboration with its established partners, wavefront provides the developer community with neutral, independent test services and the market knowledge to enable rapid commercialization.
NEWT, the Network for Emerging Wireless Technologies, is a wireless development centre providing hardware and software design, implementation and test support to developers of wireless products and services. The technical staff, industry network, lab facilities and test environments reduce product development costs, shorten product development time, increase technical knowledge and gain competitive advantage through accelerated creation and adoption of wireless technology.