Thursday’s panel at CTIA captured the key common theme of this year’s show – how to continue the innovation of the U.S. mobile telecommunications industry with the help, not the hindrance, of regulators.  The panel represented a novel mix of entertainment, with 3D advocate James Cameron, social networking, epitomized by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, and the “U.S. government CTO” Aneesh Chopra.  Mr. Chopra sidestepped the audience-popular remarks posed by the CNBC moderator which questioned the effectiveness of regulations on connectivity growth.  He preferred to leave the hard answers to the FCC, stating that his role is to leverage the existing infrastructure for utmost benefit. Read the rest of this entry »

With Mobile World Congress just past and the International CTIA Wireless show up in a couple of weeks there’s been lots of buzz around the explosion of mobile data. Its left me considering what it is that connects me to life when I’m remote from my home or office; what are the applications I most value on the go? And, what’s the one application that, trapped on an island, I just can’t do without? Well, assuming 911 was available to me the next one on my list would be email. In asking others, I was interested to find a variety of island apps near and dear to people’s hearts. I got everything from “life without YouTube would be unbearable” to “I couldn’t go a week without tweeting”.  I’d like to ask the Better Broadband blog readers…”What’s your island app?”. If you will – click here to respond and I’ll share the results next week in a follow-up post. [Vote for your Island App]