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Your Smartphone is About to Become Your Wallet

Your Smartphone is About to Become Your Wallet

by Peter Kastner on March 28, 2011 in Emerging Technology

A flurry of news over the past couple of months points to 2011 as the year new smartphones learned to replace your credit card and identification at retail checkout: Google Inc. is teaming up with MasterCard Inc. and Citigroup Inc. for Android phones. Google believes retail is a huge advertising opportunity; Persistent rumors that Apple’s iPhone 5 [...]

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AT&T + T-Mobile: Spectrum, Regulation, and a New Business Model

AT&T + T-Mobile: Spectrum, Regulation, and a New Business Model

by Peter Kastner on March 22, 2011 in Debate, Mobile Technology

The proposed $39 billion merger of T-Mobile into AT&T started a firestorm of criticism from all directions, mostly on antitrust grounds. My bet is that the deal is not approved. The question on the table is “then what”?  The demand for wireless bandwidth is growing exponentially. AT&T is trying to get more bandwidth by buying T-Mobile’s. [...]

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