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Archive for September 19th, 2008

John Roese speaks at GigaOM Mobilize conference

Nortel CTO John Roese was a speaker at this week’s GigaOM Mobilize conference in San Francisco.  John talked on-stage with GigaOM founder Om Malik.

You can see the entire Q&A on the GigaOM site here.

The Q&A started on the topic of Hyperconnectivity, then quickly moved to 4G and technologies like LTE.

John had a few interesting comments.  When asked what the “killer app” would be for 4G, John responded: “The killer application in the 4G world is the fact that now you will be able to take every application that you’ve had in the wired world and deploy that in a mobile context. And then everything across the communication ecosystem will just be an Internet app.”

Another intersting comment came in …

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