wireless data networks

Big new carriers, rather than support for blazing fast LTE 4G wireless data networks will make headlines when the next iPhone is announced, JP Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz wrote in a note to investors Monday morning Two new iPhone models will be launched this fall, Moskowitz writes.

The iPhone 5 will [...]

We always find it amusing when people point to various wireless data networks as real "competition" to wired broadband offerings, in part because the various 3G offerings out there all have ridiculously low data caps -- usually 5 gigs per month -- that a large percentage of users are likely to bump up against if they used the connection as their primary connection.

The one exception -- for now -- is Sprint's WiMax offering which has no cap, but may eventually. The issue, of course, is capacity.

Network World: "Forget spam, viruses, worms, malware and phishing. These threats are apparently old school when compared to a new class of denial-of-service (DOS) attacks that threaten wireless data networks.

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