Wireless Muse: Reiter's Wireless Internet Weblog: 4G - Reiter's Wireless Internet Weblog

Reiter's Consulting

Wireless Internet & Mobile Computing

I have been analyzing wireless communications for more than 30 years. I am president of Wireless Internet & Mobile Computing, a pioneering consulting firm that helps create new and enhance existing wireless data businesses in the United States and abroad.

Previously, I created the world's first wireless data newsletter, wireless data conference, cellular conference and FM radio subcarrier newsletter. I was instrumental in creating and developing the world's first cellular magazine.

I also helped create and run the first association in the U.S. for the paging and mobile telephone industries.

E-Mail: reiter@wirelessinternet.com
Phone: 1-301-634-1586

Reiter's Weblogs

Wireless Muse: Reiter's Wireless Internet Weblog
Periodic musings about a variety of wireless data subjects
Reiter's Mobile TV Report
News and analysis about the global mobile television ecosystem and its integration with the broadcast, cable TV and movie industries
Reiter's Camera Phone Report
My wireless imaging weblog that discusses cellular camera phones, video phones and TV phones

There were lots of debates — and hype — about 4G during the CTIA’s Wireless 2008 conference. Despite my sometimes contrarian opinions, my view is similar to many analysts: The future of 4G will primarily belong to the LTE (Long Term Evolution) protocol, but WiMAX also will survive.

Although many analysts think WiMAX is a long shot, it does have a few advantages over LTE. I also think Sprint has a shot at making its WiMAX network, Xohm, a success, but it has many, many challenges to overcome.

If you’d like to learn more, I discuss the future of 4G in my most recent weekly mobile communications column on CMP’s “Internet Evolution” Web site (see below).

April 2008

What I'm Reading

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Charles Stross: Accelerando
Spectacular. Near-singularity and during-singularity Earth (and beyond). Was waiting for a novel like this. Sort of a fictional companion to "The Singularity is Near."
Julian Barnes: Arthur and George
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and an English vicar in a detective novel based on real events. Interesting.
Umberto Eco: Foucault's Pendulum
Started this several times but will finish it now. Excellent so far.
Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves
Very strange story-within-a-story. I like it so far, but it's definitely not for readers of conventional story lines.
China Mieville: Iron Council
China Mieville writes some of the most amazing fantasy I've ever read. This is spectacular stuff. He also has an amazing vocabulary, and I'm often looking up words; it's ripe for reading on the Kindle because of the dictionary feature, but I'm waiting at least for v2.0.
Richard K. Morgan: Market Forces
The near future, where corporations rule the world and knock off executives in automobile death matches. I prefer Morgan's other more science fictionish novels.
Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, Misa Matsuda: Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life
Adam Felber: Schrodinger's Ball: A Novel
Fun and quirky. Any novel that incorporates a dead physicist and a dead/non-dead character -- both of whom wander around as part of the plot -- peaks my interest.
William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury
Bought this more than 30 years ago and finally reading it. Don't think I like it, classic or not.