Kirb’s Musings

Kirby Witmer’s ponderings, ruminations, and meditations of… anything.

rcrnews.com reports:

The carrier, which is floundering behind rivals AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless, boasted that during 2006 company measurements showed double-digit decreases in the percentages of blocked and dropped calls on its CDMA network. Sprint Nextel claimed that an unnamed, third-party study found that the carrier “earned top honors for the ‘fewest dropped calls.’”

I’m not sure where the third-party study was done, but apparently it wasn’t done in my area. The Sprint CDMA network is almost NO good around here, not to mention the increasingly problematic Nextel iDEN service. Why can’t the cell phone providers operate a network that actually works? CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?

Here is an excerpt from an interesting and somewhat amusing post I found today regarding the Verizon versus Vonage patent dispute.

……the problem in these kinds of cases is that no one has the foggiest idea what the patents cover. So when a judge rules that your current product infringes some patent, you respond by re-configuring aspects of your product at random in the hopes that you can convince the judge that the new configuration does not infringe your adversary’s “technology.” ………..determining whether a product infringes a patent in the software industry is about as scientific as reading tea leaves. The main difference is that, you usually don’t have to pay $600 million when you mis-read tea leaves.