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Network Responsibility

by Raj on January 23, 2011 · 1 Comment

In the past 6 months, I’ve seen more and more infrastructure companies focused on network data optimization (and why shouldn’t they be with video consumption continuing to explode and now representing 40% of all data load). On the other hand, from an operator perspective, the introduction of data caps in creates the downside protection they [...]

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Over the Air and Emerging Markets

by Raj on September 19, 2010 · No Comments

Two weeks ago in London, I presented at Over the Air on Emerging Market Opps. I thought I’d highlight a couple of the case studies here and embed the presentation (that I hastily put together on the plane :) SMS GupShup – I was amazed to learn that this social network of only 2 years, [...]

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Understanding PDE (Positional Determining Entity)

by Raj on June 10, 2010 · No Comments

In the past 2 years, the industry has finally moved beyond LBS as a category to LBS as a feature. As stated previously, “What app wouldn’t be more useful with location?”! What’s misunderstood in all of this is how location is retrieved by the app and what this means. E911 (government mandated subscriber location lookup) [...]

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Measuring AT&Ts Network

by Raj on December 11, 2009 · No Comments

I’ve been meaning to this post for a while – it’s inspried by a similar analysis of Vodafone coverage in Germany via WirelessMoves. Note, I’m definitely not an expert when it comes to carrier infrastructure especially since I’ve spent my whole career on the software side of the mobile biz :) Anyways, I recently read [...]

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