Here is a small clip from the Mobile Monday Event in the Samsung Center that we streamed from our pda using quik. Ari Zoldan spoke on an expert panel along with Robert Samuels of the New York Times and Carl Taylor of Hutchison Whampoa Europe. During the discussion, Ari explained how one can create a personal WiFi hotspot with one of the many cutting edge Cradlepoint routers. You can use these routers with a USB or PCMCI data card or throught a usb connection to your data phone or PDA. Furthermore, many of these routers will soon have Wimax or 4G capabilities. Check out the Cradlepoint Routers on http://www.quantum-wireless.com and http://www.Wimax.net

Mobile Monday New York presents Broadband everywhere, the mobile opportunity. Monday, 22 Sept 2008 at the Samsung Experience Center, 10 Columbus Circle, NYC

The current rollout of HSPA [High Speed Packet Access] is creating new business opportunities that exploit mobile broadband. The huge sales of USB modems reveal an emerging market that is different from pocket broadband on handsets. Mobile broadband is competing with WiFi due to always-connected mobility, ease of access and flat rate data plans. Carriers are developing HSPA and WiMax capabilities, deploying femtocells and partnering to provide xDSL connection to their core networks.

In Europe, the market has already transitioned from one dominated by visionary mobile broadband customers, to a mainstream market dominated by pragmatic customers. In the US, more people are using Web-friendly handsets and consuming more Web content overall, particularly content that lies outside carriers’ portals.

Meanwhile industry bodies - in conjunction with a raft of PC OEMs – are creating a new Mobile Broadband logo and branding campaign for wireless broadband in laptops, aiming to educate the public about ‘broadband inside’.

MoMo New York presents a discussion on the impacts of mobile broadband on carriers, content providers, laptop manufacturers and infrastructure vendors. We are happy to announce the following distinguished speakers:

Moderator:

• Lubna Dajani, Stratemerge

Panelists:

• Carl Taylor, Director of Applications & Services, Hutchison Whampoa Europe
• Ari Zoldan, CEO, Quantum Networks, LLC
• Robert Samuels, Director, Mobile Products, The New York Times

Google has announced an aggressive push to bring broadband internet service in to the emerging markets with a strong concentration into Africa. It’s attempting to launch 16 satellites connecting half of the world. The search engine giant has teamed up with John Malone, the cable giant, and HSBC, the international bank behemoth, to set up what they are calling O3B Networks. Their mission in what seems to be a clear objective, is to bring an alternative to fiber, given the fact that the financial viability of running fiber throughout the continent is too expensive.

The announcement for ordering up 16 low-earth orbit satellites from the French aerospace company, Thales Alenia, is expected to be the first stage of a 750 million dollar infusion into the project. In addition, there has been a small contribution by Allen & Company, a media advisory firm, of 20 million dollars. According to Larry Elder, product manager in Google’s alternative access group, “the project could bring the cost of bandwidth in such markets down by 95%”. He further states, “This really fits into Google’s mission to extend internet use around the developing world.”

This is an opportune time for the Wimax community to step up and take some very serious initiative to introduce its technology as a clear bridge for long range distribution to their end-users. The only foreseeable alternative to Wimax distributing the satellites’ broadband signal, would be Long Term Evolution (LTE). However, the standards for this technology have not even been drafted. This is why WiMAX is perfectly positioned to be the alternative true access for optimal broadband in third world countries.

Potentially, this is a tremendous boost for WiMAX technology and all of its mobile applications. Several networks in Africa are already utilizing WiMAX technology and are being hailed a huge success. Assuming Google goes the way of WiMAX, its objective to bring internet to every single person on the planet is within clear reach.