Scoble Focuses on 3G Issues with AT&T’s CTO, John Donovan
Source: alanweinkrantz.typepad.com
No, I am not doing 3G iPhone coverage today. There’s lot of other sites like Gizmodo or Engadget where you can get what you need there.
Since this is an AT&T focused blog, and and the big news today was about the 3G iPhone, I thought it was be best and most productive to talk about the importance of 3G, what it means, and where it’s going.
Blogger, Robert Scoble, did an on the street interview with John Donovan, CTO of AT&T. John is in charge of the AT&T research labs, network deployment- all the technology that gets out there. In the new position, Donovan is responsible for managing the company’s global technology direction and innovation road map, including product development, network and engineering operations. The AT&T Labs and the security and intellectual property organizations is also in his set of responsibilities.
John focused on AT&T’s plans for 3G. In the video, he talk about the eventual deployment of 350 cities, the concept of filling in the footprint from within, and the scalability of 3G.
John’s broader message was pretty simple: the more bandwidth you deploy, the more people will use it and use it in more places, hence the need for increased mobility applications.
