Word: cellular
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...need land, you have to pay a bribe," says Kazimi, the former Commerce Minister. "Electricity, you have to pay someone off. To import goods, you have to pay baksheesh. Everyone has a 'tax.'" Those who refuse to pay risk losing out to their business rivals. When Roshan, a cellular-phone company jointly owned by the Geneva-based Aga Khan Development Network, Monaco Telecom and MCT Corp. of the U.S., began building a network in Afghanistan in 2002, transmission equipment languished in customs for months, says Roshan CEO Karim Khoja, because the company refused to pay bribes. Leases on prime land...
...NAMES DIE HARD Some ballparks are forever. Most Chicago White Sox partisans still refer to home as Comiskey Park, which was demolished in '91, not U.S. Cellular Field. To S.F. 49ers fans, Monster Park will always be Candlestick...
...with handheld devices probably won't be ready until next year, handsetmakers are already giddy at the prospect. With WiMax's roots in the Internet, the reasoning goes, mobile networks based on that technology will be able to deliver the multimedia goods to mobile-phone customers better than traditional cellular networks. Motorola chief technology officer Padmasree Warrior says WiMax offers "three times the data transfer and half the cost" of cellular networks, which were originally designed only to handle voice calls. Handset vendors also like the prospect of a WiMax future which may help to free them from intellectual property...
...cellular carriers are far less enthusiastic. They see WiMax as a threat to the 3G cellular networks they have invested in so heavily. For now, many operators are settling for relatively small software upgrades that boost the speed of 3G networks at far less cost than building a new WiMax network. But some operators acknowledge that these enhancements will probably not be powerful enough to compete with mobile WiMax, and few seem to have a strategy beyond that. Sanjiv Ahuja, chief executive of Orange, the France Telecom?owned mobile carrier, says only that Orange "will be making decisions over...
Further pressuring cellular, new network operators who specialize in WiMax are popping up like hot spots at coffee shops. Seattle-based Clearwire is run by former cellular zealot turned WiMax guru Craig McCaw, while others include Irish Broadband in Ireland, Wimax Telecom in Eastern Europe and Unwired in Australia. "It's like a big landgrab," says Ryan Jarvis, founder and chief executive of London-based WiMax start-up Macropolitan. Fixed-line telephone and broadband providers including Softbank in Japan, and BT and Pipex in the U.K., are also getting in on the act. A wireless WiMax network could help fixed...