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March 17, 2005
CTIA Wrap up
OK I'm ready to get out of New Orleans. Had a great show. Met a lot of great people and made some good contacts. It was good to see some people I haven't run into in a while. All-in-all a pretty good show. Did a lot of great research on potential customers and partners. The plenary sessions were a pretty big disappointment. A lot of big company VP's saying the same things they always say.
No big suprises or announcements. Mostly it just seems that the things that everyone has been talking about for the last few years are starting to happen. Convergence is happening and companies are making real products. From the sessions and news it is still pretty clear that North America is not living up to the potential of mobile and the carriers seem to be the problem from my prospective. It is real clear to me that we are going to need to be in the European and Asian markets as soon as we can get there. Just to be involved in the emerging technologies.
Frankly, there weren't that many new/cool devices out either. A lot of the same. However there are a LOT of new devices coming this year. We are going to have our work cut out for us.
So saying goodbye to New Orleans. It was great, but frankly 4 days is enough.
Posted by David Adams at March 17, 2005 11:17 AM