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Thanks for encouraging me to holdem... I did. eom
INTERESTING IMO:
Unilava Signs Mou To Acquire China Dragon Telecom
http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Unilava-Signs-Mou-To-Acquire-China-Dragon-Telecom/867340
"... part of a global team."
busy busy busy... globally imo
Ray T. Powers Ph.D.
Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President, Corban Networks, Inc.
This person is connected to 3 board of directors in 3 different organizations across 6 different industries.
See Board Relationships
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BACKGROUND
Ray T. Powers, PhD. has been a Vice President of Transnational Financial Network, Inc. since 2006. Dr. Powers has been the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Corban Networks, Inc. since September 2004. He serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Skyway Communications Holding Corp. and Telava Wireless, Inc. Dr. Powers served as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Telava Networks, Inc. (alternate name Unilava Corporation) and also ... served as its Vice President since 2006. He served as Executive Vice President of Telava Networks, Inc. (US) until March 12, 2009. Dr. Powers has over 40 years of progressive technology and business leadership experience beginning with 30 years at AT&T/US West, followed by accomplishments in non-regulated companies and start-up through IPO entrepreneurial environments.
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=11791009&privcapId=11777002&previousCapId=34990982&previousTitle=XCELLINK%20INTERNATIONAL%20INC
http://www.unilava.com/
"Unilava Corporation engages in the development, design, and marketing of communication technology services, and provides advertising offerings and access to Internet users in the United States and Asia. The company also offers long distance services in approximately 50 States and local phone services in 11 States. It provides various services, such as high-definition VOIP, broadband wireless, mobile, local and long distance, calling cards, and emergency roadside to residential and business customers. The company offers its products under the Local Area Yellow Pages, Telava, Local114, Counia, Countryconnect, and Nationwide Roadside Assistance brand names. It also provides a suite of online and mobile advertising and Web services to small businesses. In addition, the company operates an enterprise social network portal for its members to connect and interact with an array of services, including video chat, video email, e-fax, voice-over-IP, and conference calling. Unilava Corporation was formerly known as Telava Networks, Inc. and changed its name to Unilava Corporation in October 2009. The company was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California."
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?ticker=UNLA:US
It's not about the towers it's about the patents... simple. The towers are just a nice extra here imo.
Hey... I believe in DD and supporting whatever I'm invested in... And respecting other peoples' investments. Go MDGC!
"Recently both Verizon and AT&T have been talking about a long term move to metered pricing for mobile broadband. For their business models, this is probably unavoidable, as voice pricing is deteriorating and they need to make up the difference with data, which is a lower margin business. For Clearwire's business model, metered pricing is not necessary. Today its most popular offering is the unlimited service. But if AT&T and Verizon Wireless migrate to metered mobile broadband pricing, Clearwire will benefit, either competitively via incremental market share gains or by operating under a higher pricing umbrella."
Excerpt from:
Clearwire Reports Q1: The Mobile Trend Is Clearwire's Friend
http://seekingalpha.com/article/203770-clearwire-reports-q1-the-mobile-trend-is-clearwire-s-friend
AT&T Metered Plan Good for RIM, Clearwire
By Anton Wahlman, Contributor 06/02/10 - 11:14 AM EDT
http://www.thestreet.com/story/10771930/1/att-metered-plan-good-for-rim-clearwire.html?cm_ven=GOOGLEN
In a somewhat stunning about-face from the recently implemented unlimited data plan for the iPad, AT&T (T) announced the effective end to unlimited data. Gone are the days when you could stream Netflix to your cellular device such as Apple's(T) iPhone or iPad 3G for a fixed monthly fee -- at least on the AT&T network.
You see, this pricing action by AT&T will now serve to highlight Clearwire's(CLWR) superior spectrum position, which enables it to offer unlimited data service for $60 a month when using the Sierra Wireless (SWIR)Overdrive "mobile WiFi hotspot" and $30 when using the equivalent functionality on the HTC EVO 4G, which launches in Sprint stores on Friday.
You want your iPhone or iPad with unlimited data? Just pair the iPhone iPad or iPod Touch, with either the Sierra Wireless Overdrive or the HTC EVO 4G, and you're covered. Not only do you have a plan that was better than the new expensive metered AT&T data plans, but your plan remains even better than AT&T's old plan, because there is no 5 GB cap per month.
This is the result of Clearwire's superior spectrum position, which means it has the capacity to offer users more data consumption without hitting the ceiling in terms of capacity. Think of Clearwire as offering a freeway with 10 lanes in each direction, compared with one lane in each direction offered by AT&T. There is just no remote comparison.
Eventually, of course, Clearwire and its 57% majority owner Sprint(S) also will be forced into some form of a metered data plan, but this could take a year or two or more. It just takes a lot longer to fill up a 10-lane freeway than a one-lane freeway. In the meantime, this is a huge gift to the Sprint and Clearwire marketing departments. The other main beneficiary of this AT&T pricing action is BlackBerry maker Research in Motion(RIMM), whose devices use complex compression techniques to reduce the amount of data going across the network. Claims vary, but generally it is thought that a BlackBerry consumes three to five times less data to accomplish many tasks, compared with a device such as iPhone or Google's(GOOG) Android.
http://features.techworld.com/networking/3223499/wimax-vs-lte-what-wimax-2-promises/?olo=rss
WiMax vs LTE: What WiMax 2 promises
Watch for WiMax 2 in 2011
By Brad Reed | Network World US
Published: 13:26 GMT, 16 May 10
WiMax isn't taking the challenge from LTE lying down.
Faced with a growing number of operators planning to launch 4G LTE services over the next year, WiMax's creators at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and its industry boosters are moving aggressively to upgrade the mobile data standard in time for a commercial launch in the US as early as 2012.
The IEEE has been developing the new standard, known as 802.16m and commonly referred to as "WiMax 2," since 2006. If all goes according to plan, the IEEE should finish work on the standard by this coming September. Meanwhile the WiMax Forum industry group is working on an 802.16m certification profile that it hopes to have ready to go by the time the IEEE finishes its work later this year.
Will Cisco drop WiMax focus after Starent acquistion?
Additionally, last month a group of industry heavyweights including Intel, Motorola and Samsung announced a new initiative to accelerate interoperability of 802.16m, with the goal of jointly testing 4G applications over WiMax 2 networks and testing for early network level interoperability.
802.16m will be significantly faster than its predecessor. WiMax Forum Vice President Mohammad Shakouri has said the goal is for the new WiMax standard to deliver average downlink speeds of more than 100Mbps to users. In contrast, Sprint's initial Xohm WiMax offering, which debuted commercially in 2008, delivered downlink speeds ranging between 3.7M to 5Mbps. But while 802.16m will give WiMax a major speed boost, don't expect it to propagate any further than the current WiMax technology that covers around 31 square miles per access point.
802.16m will also be backward compatible with 802.16e, the WiMax standard currently used by operators in the United States. This means that when U.S. ISP Clearwire upgrades to the new standard it will be able to do so at a relatively low cost and with minimal disruption.
Although WiMax 2 may be ready to roll out next year, don't expect to see it deployed in the United States until 2012 at the earliest, since Clearwire has said that it is happy to use its current WiMax standard for at least the next couple of years. By the end of this year, Clearwire will have built out a WiMAX network that spans all major US markets and that covers 120 million points of presence.
"Right now we think the WiMax technology we're already using is more than sufficient for the time being," Clearwire Chief Commercial Officer Mike Sievert told Network World earlier this year. "It's the fastest technology on the market that's here today and that works. So any evaluations we're doing are just evaluations."
Both WiMAX and LTE are hitting the market during a time when Cisco projects that mobile Internet traffic will double every year between now and 2013, when it will total an average of 2.2 million terabytes per month. Cisco predicts that the biggest driver for the traffic increase will come from video, which will account for roughly 64% of all mobile data traffic in 2013. In 2008, video traffic averaged around 13,000 TB per month, or roughly 39% of all mobile traffic. By 2013, video traffic will increase by more than 100 times and will average around 1.3 million TB per month, Cisco projects.
Sanjiv Gupta, a senior technical marketing engineer at Intel, said earlier this year that 802.16m would be a key technology to help mobile operators meet traffic demand in the coming years since it would "offer significantly greater capacity, coverage and performance, and lower latency." So far, however, most US carriers have committed to LTE as their 4G technology of choice, including AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile. Only Sprint, through its partnership with Clearwire, has supported WiMAX.
http://www.wimaxvslte4g.com/wimax-2-turn-tide-lte-vs-wimax-rivalry
WiMAX 2 to Turn the Tide in the LTE VS WiMAX Rivalry?
Submitted by Merben on Tue, 05/18/2010 - 05:11
Many experts consider WiMAX as the underdog in its competition against LTE. WiMAX's main suppliers in the US have hinted that they are prepared to switch to LTE should the need arise. However, it appears that WiMAX is holding something up its sleeve in the upcoming WiMAX vs LTE battle.
WiMAX 2, based on the 802.16m standard, is expected to deliver average downlink speeds of more than 100Mbps to users. That's a significant increase from the downlink speeds ranging between 3.7M to 5Mbps offered by current WiMAX 4G networks. This added speed is a potent weapon in the LTE vs WiMAX war.
here are a few more interesting facts on WiMAX 2. This 4G technology backward compatible with 802.16e, the WiMax standard currently used by operators in the United States. This means Clearwire will not spend a lot of dough and cause a lot of interruptions when upgrading to WiMAX 2. This is another great weapon to have in the WiMAX vs LTE skirmish.
However, Clearwire believes that the current standard is sufficient as it still remains the fastest network in the nation. Nevertheless, having WiMAX 2 in your back pocket is a good weapon to have as we advance into the modern 4G age.
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/WiMax-Part3.html
If you would like to read the other parts in this article series please go to:
WiMax (Part 1)
WiMax vs LTE: Part 2 LTE
Introduction
In my previous two articles I presented WiMax and LTE, the two giants competing for market share in the 3G telecommunications space. In this article I will compare and contrast the two from a technological and a business perspective. First, let's review the two standards.
WiMax review
WiMax, which is also known as IEEE standard 802.16, is a 3G wireless broadband access standard developed and maintained by the IEEE. As its name suggests, WiMax can be thought of as an extension of WiFi to the fully mobile telecommunications markets. Like WiFi version 802.11n, WiMax also contains support for Multiple Input/Multiple Output (MIMO) antennae, which is critical for supporting multiple simultaneous users. Also like WiFi, a major supporter and promoter of WiMax is Intel. Unlike WiFi; WiMax is designed for hundreds of users per base station, the users are highly mobile often switching from base station to base station throughout a single communication cycle, and the base station ranges are measured in kilometres not metres.
LTE review
Long Term Evolution (LTE) is also a 3G wireless broadband access standard though it is developed and maintained by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). The 3GPP is an organization responsible for the development, maintenance, and promotion of the GSM family of standards. LTE is the latest in the family of GSM standards which have been evolving from GSM's roots as a circuit switched architecture to an all-IP based architecture. Starting with the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) standard and including the Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) and High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) standards the GSM standards have been marching slowing but confidently towards an all-IP architecture.
Convergence
As the LTE standard has moved the GSM standards towards what is more traditionally thought of as a computer networking standards, WiMax has moved traditional computer networking towards what has traditionally been thought of as mobile telephony standards. So you can see that the two standards are coming from different backgrounds (with different strengths and weaknesses) and converging on common ground.
As you might have guessed, the industry players backing each technology reflect the history of each standard. WiMax's most significant backer, as I mentioned before is Intel. Intel has a very strong history in the computer industry and was also a major supporter of WiFi. Likewise the major supporters of LTE are, in general, the telecommunication service companies and the traditional mobile handset makers (like Ericsson). Largely, this is due to the fact that people like to work with what they are comfortable with. Intel, as a result of its history, is comfortable with traditional computer networking and so has naturally drifted towards WiMax. Ericsson, among others, is comfortable with GSM technologies and so it is quite natural and understandable that they would be drawn towards the LTE standard.
The consumer
It Is not only tech companies who like to work with what they are comfortable with. This sort of thinking also infects consumers decisions. Due to the name WiMax consumers quite naturally think of WiFi which has for many years been a part of the home networking world. Consumers will immediately think that WiMax is something used to network a computer. LTE, though not having a strong name association with GSM, is closely associated with GSM (from a consumer's point of view) through its supporters and the telecommunications services companies like AT&T. So consumers will immediately think that LTE is something used to network their mobile phones; though this link is likely not as strong as the link WiMax has to WiFi.
So there exists two consumer preconceptions for the two 3G standards. I am of the opinion that the standard which ultimately gains more widespread acceptance (and therefore wins) will be the standard with the most advantageous consumer image. Now, a preconception does not make an image. However, as the saying goes you only get one chance to make a good first impression. While a good advertising campaign for a good standard with a good roll-out strategy can make a difference, competing against a strong competitor having a strong first impression is always difficult.
That's the exact situation we have here. Both of these standards are excellent, both have an impressive list of industry heavy weights supporting the standard, and both have excellent roll-out plans. There should be no doubt that both standards will soon be in the hands of very capable advertising professionals. So to me, this whole competition (barring a massive mistake, or genius maneuvering) comes down to who has the favourable first impression.
Who wins?
So which technology has the advantageous position? This is where the debate lies. While LTE invokes the impression of mobility, WiMax invokes the impression of computing. I think that the question we are really trying to answer is whether consumers want a phone which is networked to the Internet, or do they want a computer they can carry with them like a phone? The lines are obviously very blurred here. As the iPhone has shown, there is a very large and significant portion of the market which want a computer they can carry with them like a phone. This view has been strengthened by the fact that many handset manufacturers have responded to the iPhone's success by introducing handsets themselves that are much more computer like (and yes, some handset manufacturers even did this prior to the iPhone). Is this portion of the market the majority? It's difficult to say, though I think it is. Another advantage which WiMax has is that children use, and are comfortable with, computers long before they are of the age to purchase or use a mobile phone. So young people soon to enter the mobile phone (or should we say mobile communication device) market will already be familiar with computers, but not as much with traditional mobile phones. This differs from the market today as the majority of adults are comfortable with both mobile phones and computers.
Who wins? If I was a betting man my money would be on WiMax. I know many people think differently but as I have laid out I believe WiMax is starting out with a huge advantage which will be quite difficult for LTE to overcome. Separate from my "positive preconception" argument, I also believe that WiMax has an advantage in its history. That is that coming from the computer and computer networking side of things WiMax has supporters from those industries. In my opinion this is an advantage because it seems that the computer industry has a very strong history of tough competition and strict, never-ending development cycles, while the traditional handset makers do not seem to be as hardened to this type of competition. As always, if you have any questions or comments on this article or any previous article don't hesitate to email me and I will do my best to respond promptly.
So far on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/mediag3
.RT @youtube: Coca-Cola talks about using YouTube to launch their World Cup campaign. http://bit.ly/aAcInL
about 2 hours ago via web .From @engadget:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/the-next-apple-tv-revealed-cloud-storage-and-iphone-os-on-tap/
about 3 hours ago via web
.RT @nytimesbits: Apple Sells 2 Million iPads Since April Debut http://nyti.ms/biuz9p
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.Get a preview of HTC's new EVO 4G Phone.... http://now.sprint.com/evo/?id9=SEM:Google:A:EVO:Content
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MDGC... news could come next week... do some DD and find out potential imo.
Long as mine comes first... Line forms now, that's fine, I'm seated... we go up soon imo.
MDGC... News expected as early as next week with tight float and huge potential... do some DD on it... all jmo
MDGC... News expected as early as next week with tight float and huge potential... do some DD on it... all jmo
MDGC... News expected as early as next week with tight float and huge potential... do some DD on it... all jmo
Interesting:
"Gold Hill Capital is an independent, private venture firm focused on providing debt and equity capital to companies within the technology and life science industries. Gold Hill is capitalized by top-tier institutional investors with aggregate investment capital of approximately $1 billion deployed over two funds.
Gold Hill has a highly-focused team dedicated to delivering flexible financing solutions for expansion stage companies. Our team provides an unparalleled level of financial experience working with technology companies – experience that includes investment banking, venture capital, international finance, mezzanine finance and asset-based lending. Gold Hill is headquartered in San Jose, CA with an office in Boston, MA."
I've been lurking for months now... It's a gamble, but thats the penny game... have been biding my time. I like the potential here. we'll see. all jmo
I'm back in this AM w/500k... but I'm not alone it seems. Took about 15 min to buyem at the Ask. Looking for impressive news here. Go MDGC!
VYGO... oil... low float/great chart... jmo
VYGO... 4-5 bagger potential... see chart... low floater for sub-penny @ ~195 million shares. Gonna pop soon imo
all jmo
Holding on tight is my name (pennypincher).... can squezze nickels into dimes. Go VYGO!
I'm in... let's go up!
It looks like it may gap... .06-.10 would be a sweet day, we'll see... jmo
Shares get more expensive in the am imo
bid better chase faster cause it'll be more $ in the AM jmo
sucker shake... still millions short imo.
power hour should be really interesting imo
SWRS short squeeze underway with possible news in AM jmo
SWRS short squeeze underway with possible news in AM jmo
presssssssure toward AM PR imo eom
Bid is up and buyers are seeing the potential here.... jmo
Squeeeeeeezzzzzeeee.... yeah! eom
AM gonna be a blast imo.
Something tells me that PSC will want to run it north of .15 so they can give their following a chance to get out if they are stuck high.... all jmo.... eom
.046 x .054... headed north! jmo eom
slap that ask and the bid'll chase imo
They've had all week to work on news imo