Just when I thought I was clear on fixed-mobile convergence (FMC), I got two new press releases that started another train of thought. They made me think that from the consumer's point of view, the choices to be made as service providers offer the quad play are going to be confusing. Depending upon where you... http://www.cable360.net/motorola/fmc/23212.html Tue, 1 May 2007 0:00:00 EDT Our fastidious contributing editor sticks a thermometer into the WiMAX and fixed mobile convergence categories to see if they're anywhere near done yet.... http://www.cable360.net/motorola/fmc/23216.html Tue, 1 May 2007 0:00:00 EDT There's been a lot of talk - and not just at the CTIA Wireless Show - about fixed-mobile convergence (FMC), the telecommunications nirvana where you can access every bit of data you've acquired since you were born wherever you are and whenever you want. Someday, like flying cars and interactive video phones... http://www.cable360.net/motorola/fmc/22759.html Fri, 30 Mar 2007 0:00:00 EDT There's a new device floating around the broadband mobile wireless space - if mobile broadband is not an oxymoron - that will impact cable, home networking and the emerging fixed-mobile convergence (FMC). Femtocells, small in-building base stations that operate cell phone frequencies but use broadband DSL or... http://www.cable360.net/motorola/fmc/22613.html Thu, 22 Mar 2007 0:00:00 EDT The telecommunications space can be a challenging thing to understand. Information provided to and in consumer media via news releases from both vendors and operators and especially during earnings conference calls can deviate sharply from reality. Press releases and executives on earnings calls aimed at... http://www.cable360.net/motorola/fmc/22331.html Thu, 1 Mar 2007 0:00:00 EST Cable operators have buried treasure – aka recorded media – in DVR-enabled set-top boxes in their consumers' homes, and they should give consumers the keys to retrieve it and do with it what they'd like, including carrying it out of the house. Motorola calls this a "cache and carry"... http://www.cable360.net/motorola/fmc/22112.html Thu, 15 Feb 2007 0:00:00 EST For those of you who may have missed it while fighting winter storms and sundry strains of influenza, competition has arrived. The hype's over: Verizon is serious about television, and cable is serious about telephony, and the satellite guys know that HD is the only way they'll stay ahead of both wireline... http://www.cable360.net/motorola/fmc/22113.html Thu, 15 Feb 2007 0:00:00 EST Appropriately enough, during a week when CES had the world's eyes riveted on Las Vegas, the cable-Sprint Nextel joint venture rolled a SEVEN for mobile email services. The decision to use email software from Redwood City, CA-based SEVEN isn't a gamble for the JV; it's a strategic move to take advantage of... http://www.cable360.net/motorola/fmc/21567.html Fri, 12 Jan 2007 0:00:00 EST While the cable industry is understandably excited about its joint venture with Sprint Nextel and how that will facilitate the quadruple play, some people insist on throwing in a reality blanket. One them is Jenny Fielding, COO of Switch-Mobile, whose company is opening a back door for cable operators to... http://www.cable360.net/motorola/fmc/21568.html Fri, 12 Jan 2007 0:00:00 EST If there's any certainty about what's going to happen in 2007, it's the thought that talking is only going to be one minor function of what a telephone is all about, as even the carriers are demonstrating. "I see an opportunity for us to evolve the business as we change technologies and we move from... http://www.cable360.net/motorola/fmc/21569.html Fri, 12 Jan 2007 0:00:00 EST