Ten Predictions for 2009

Ten Predictions for 2009:

1. Android takes off. Platforms flourish with videophones, sensor packages, Mobile WiMAX, and 700 MHz options.
2. Verizon backpedals with limited LiMO and LTE support. AT&T sticks with HSPA+. Both do deals with Cable’s SpectrumCo for AWS spectrum.
3. Clearwire and Microsoft announce wireless IPTV in 2010 using 802.16m. Free with ads.
4. Jobs leaves Apple. Announces new media partnership.
5. Smartphones provide strong competition to XO. Smartphone increase market share while cellular revenues decrease (for vitually the first time).
6. Revenue from “4G” spectrum auctions in the Europe and Middle East fall short of hopes. Serious LTE rollouts delayed a year, world-wide.
7. Satphone mergers. 1. LEO Constellations of Irridium and Globalstar, 2. GEO platforms in the MSS band (2.1 GHz) ICO and TerreStar and 3. L-Band GEO platforms at 1.6 GHz Mobile Satellite Ventures (now SkyTerra) and Inmarsat. Russian Mafia and Microsoft invest in O3b Networks.
8. Google launches massive social networking/gaming network.
9. South Korea announces robot companion initiative. Terrorists hijack the network.
10. Smart Mobs become quasi governments, take over.

source : dailywireless.org