Mobile Forum Meeting: Opportunities in Broadband Wireless November 6, 2008

The age of pervasive Internet is upon us. With Sprint's launch of Xohm, not to mention exisiting 3G HSPA and EV-DO networks and upcoming LTE networks, there are increasing options for mobile connectivity. Price per megabyte is dropping fast as the result of better technology, and increased competition, and we've seen the first example of CE with bundled broadband in the Amazon Kindle.

But what are the opportunities that this pervasive broadband open up? Laptops, MIDs, and other CE will be constantly connected, most likely with location-aware data plans. The Telecom Council believes that these target devices have been largely overlooked, as companies are focused on the more familiar scenario of phone handsets. But although they share an OS, mobile connected laptops are NOT the same as PCs. We've seen web companies morph into mobile with handset strategies, but what shape will their mobile laptop strategies take? Landing pages? Redirects with LBS portals? Location-enabled banner ads? Some kind of gaming? "Dialer" software that tells a user how much usage they have, real time costs, etc? How does Web 2.0 and cloud computing figure into erratic wireless networks? Let's run these ideas up the flag post, and see who salutes.

Our meeting will feature a concrete discussion of the wireless technologies and the devices that will carry the experience to the consumers of 2009-2010 with our panel of experts and important companies in this sector. But we'll also move on to the fertile discussion areas of pricing models, and then services and applications for this new breed of "terminal". To paraphrase Pulp Fiction: "Does a person in a train or coffee shop on a laptop look like a PC user sitting at their desk?... So why you wanna treat 'em that way?

For this meeting, we'll hear from companies leading this sector and from the innovators that will revolutionize the way people use wireless and mobile broadband. As always expect some demos!

Free for members, $200 for non-members.

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