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Telcos see future in the cloud

BARCELONA, Spain–Where do the largest telecommunications companies in the world want to be in in the future? In the cloud. John Chambers, Cisco Systems’ CEO, talks about cloud services at Mobile World Congress 2012. Marguerite Reardon/CNET We’ve all heard this schtick before: Carriers don’t want to be the purveyors of dumb pipes. Their equipment suppliers–namely, Cisco Systems and Alcatel-Lucent–also don’t …

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Why the vaunted spectrum auctions won’t cut it

Editors’ note: This is a guest column. See Morgan Reed’s bio below. In the Broadway musical “Oliver!,” orphaned Oliver Twist famously holds out his empty bowl and asks, “Please sir, may I have some more?” For those of us who make mobile applications, we feel like Oliver, holding out our virtual bowl, begging for more spectrum to fill the hungry …

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