The last newsletter was published on March 15, 2008. This issue contains two fresh articles and feedback information. In the past two weeks, I've submitted for articles from the EKTAN to Seeking Alpha at seekingalpha.com. My author biography and an index of articles is at: http://seekingalpha.com/author/ed-ketchoyian. These are practically identical to the articles here at the EKTAN, but at Seeking Alpha, there have been some very interesting comments. One article garnered 27 including one response from myself.
Unlike Jerry Springer's system of providing profound Final Thoughts at the end of the show after there's been torn hair from who knows where and whatever else dispersed through the studio, I'm providing these thoughts at the beginning.
I have been asked if I'm going to CTIA this year. Unfortunately, no. I'll be monitoring from afar. I have been to many CTIA and PCIA shows over the years, including the PCIA show in 1998 in Orlando that was cut short by an impending hurricane. In my opinion, that was the beginning of the end of the PCIA show. There was already fatigue setting in with having two major trade shows a year. CTIA and PCIA were in heavy competition. The vendors were whining that it was very expensive to support two shows per year. The hurricane provided a excuse to many at the time to put their resources in the safer and larger CTIA show in the Spring.
I believe the show this year will be the beginning of some major industry announcements that will happen through the rest of 2008. With the quiet period ending next week from the 700 MHz auction, coincidentally coinciding with the CTIA show, we could have some interesting announcements. By the way, am I imagining things or did Verizon really win the A, B and C blocks for Chicago? There's a lot of good analysis out there on the auction results, especially from Wireless Strategy (no, they don't pay me to plug them, but I know them personally and I know the quality of work they produce). I'll be working on providing unique observations next week.
Some of the ideas and topics I'm mulling on for future articles, not including the popular Sprint Nextel Watch series, include the following: LTE deployment issues, 700 MHz post-auction analysis, Motorola, and a suggested topic called Near Field Communications.
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