Week Eight

Waiting by the Phone: Wireless and Mobile

1. Questions, concepts to be covered in class and through readings
1. Business structure and technology structure of wireless networks
2. MVNOs
3. Rich media content on phones, SMS, MMS
4. Mobile software = on deck, off deck, WAP
5. MoSoSo = Dodgeball, Twitter, Rave Wireless
6. Municipal wifi, wifi phones, mesh networks

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Assignment

Write (1) blog post:

- Please write an assessment of what you would like to get out of your mobile phone and the tradeoffs between the following considerations: Size, price, privacy, portability of content, how and where you use it. What would your perfect mobile phone do?