It's been another busy week in the home office of The Wireless Report. Check out the five best of the best stories of the past week. Enjoy!
- AT&T, MetroFi team in wireless network proposal
Well, this is certainly interesting news. We've been seeing for months on end how telcos and cable companies have been fighting against citywide wireless initiatives, including lobbying efforts to get legislation passed in various states. - Is Motorola trying to overtake Nokia as world's largest handset maker?
I'm sure Motorola is trying to somehow become the world's largest wireless handset maker, almost 10 years after Nokia overtook the giant as the world's largest wireless handset manufacturer after several stumbles by the RAZR-maker. Can it do it? - Signs pointing upward for ZigBee
Things certainly seem to be progressing forward for ZigBee technology. With industry biggies like Texas Instruments, Siemens AG, and STMicroelectronics joining the ZigBee Alliance this year, and with the technology finding homes in applications ranging from monitoring temperature controllers and security systems to (potentially) cellphones, the momentum for the acceptance of ZigBee into the mainstream is not that far away. - Get your "Reality TV" fix on your Sprint Nextel handset
Sprint Nextel, which continues to unleash quite interesting and innovative programming designed for the wireless handset screen, has announced that it will have an exclusive on the "Primped" made-for-mobile Reality TV series. The series, which features an "extreme makeover" theme, will be available for $6.99 for the 30-episode run to Sprint Power Vision (EV-DO) customers. - Philly's wireless champion gets grief for spending too much time on the road
This is a silly story, IMHO. There are some folks who are complaining that Philadelphia's CIO Dianah Neff, the woman who led the Wireless Philadelphia initiative, has been taking too many trips on the city's dime as well as being paid for by other parties, including EarthLink.
