Nortel Buzzboard

This week on Buzzboard you’ll see a lot of coverage and analysis on where communications is going in the next few years.  On Tuesday, Nortel CTO John Roese and IDC Canada’s Senior VP of Worldwide Consulting and Managing Director, Vito Mabrucco, will be hosting a press conference in Toronto detailing the results of a global study on Hyperconnectivity.  The study covers a wide range of topics, from which countries have the most hyperconnected users to how many people admit to reading email in church.

And later this week, I’ll be traveling to Ottawa where we will be hosting several industry bloggers as part of our Nortel Futures 2008 event.  We’ll be showing them the latest and greatest that …

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The big news in the wireless industry recently has been the consortium of companies that have come together to invest in Sprint and Clearwire’s WiMAX build-out.  The news has generated a lot of positive buzz for WiMAX, which has generally been taking a beating in the press this year.

But not everyone is so positive on the news.  Erick Schonfeld in Seeking Alpha says that “Google got snookered” in the deal, and lays out several reasons why.  Erick states his main reason as follows:
What I do know is that Google came reluctantly to the table and that for a long time the deal was being blocked internally at Google for some very good reasons. The main reason is that …

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