John Roese’s Blog CTO, Nortel

Location: On flight from Las Vegas to Boston

In response to some comments late last year and earlier this year about the slow pace of blog entries … for the record, I just want to let you know that I AM trying to pick up the pace a bit - just difficult sometimes with the day job.

But, I think/hope I’m making progress. Here’s another one that posted today on Internet Evolution, which was created by some of the founders of Light Reading.

When will we have enough new building blocks to truly create something revolutionary in terms of what telecom can enable? Today, we are seeing new capabilities, technologies, and economic models emerging that are creating some interesting telecom experiences that might just change the way we work, play, and live. Let’s consider the new building blocks, or at least the most obvious ones.

First, we now have mobile medium- to high-speed data connectivity options emerging that are cheap enough to be embedded in a wide range of form factors and devices. The Kindle from Amazon embeds CDMA data services directly into the device without the user having any direct interaction or subscription with the operator of the CDMA network. Connectivity is just a function of the device, not its primary identity.

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