2007 - current
NYNEX' nationwide expansion, 9/11 and Federal Stuff kind of got in the way of "new things" for a while, but I went and got into research off my own bat after my Verizon management buyout. Mostly, I have been working on cellular internet implementations overseas - in the United States, there is little incentive for this, as DSL, FIOS and cable internet have taken over our world. Curiously, in Western Europe, arguably more advanced than the United States in terms of its installed fiber base, cellular internet enjoys a higher uptake than it does here, possibly caused by the (regulated) interoperability of competing networks there.

Management Consulting
- 2011 (current): Measuring Equipment Manufacturer– Bellevue, WA - Patent Review
For the spinoff of an existing manufacturer of industrial measuring equipment, I am reviewing conceptual and usage changes for their ground breaking product. The purpose is to develop a new patentable application.
- 2010/11: Equipment manufacturer – Shenzen, China - Proposal Development
A large and fast growing Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer has commissioned a road map to expand its reach into services provisioning. Working with my former supervisor in Australia, we are putting together a Team Build Proposal to make this happen.
- 2007/2010: XL Axiata – Jakarta, Indonesia - RFI Response Development
I and former Verizon colleagues in Australia and Indonesia began work to try and win a maintenance contract that would be put out to bid by Pt. Exelcomindo Pratama ("XL"), the Indonesian cellular carrier that my NYNEX team had worked (see here) on setting up as an American / Indonesian joint venture back in 1995/6.

Mobile Research Outtakes:
- I found an HSDPA mobile telephone with full GPS based navigation in the Philippines in 2007, that wasn't something you could get in the United States. It did (and does) 3.5G; then in Singapore and Hong Kong, now virtually everywhere outside of North America. Tethered, too. Interestingly, HSDPA, what is called 3.5G "over there", has been available in many overseas places since 2006, and when the terminology "4G" is used in the United States, most of the time they're talking about 3.5G. The use of "4G" obfuscates the fact we're aeons behind Europe and Asia.
- I tested RIM's T-Mobile Blackberry 9700 on NTT Docomo's 3.5G Tokyo network, in 2008, until then not a network any Western mobile telephone could use,
- I got myself a Fory multistandard mobile telephone with touch screen and worldwide TV reception in 2008, in Beijing, where they still play with technology - and went back
- in 2010, when I got my first ZTE 3G wireless internet dongle on TD-SCDMA, using China Mobile's home grown Chinese high speed wireless standard - interesting because the Chinese government, nominally still owner of all telecommunications in the People's Republic, is trying to implement a high speed cellular standard that does not involve paying royalties to Qualcomm, or using their technologies.
- Equally in 2010, I put a member of my family on mobile internet in Indonesia, enabling them to keep up with the home front in Europe using Skype, a Chinese Dell laptop, and a 3.5G dongle. Special, because it has not been long since Indonesia was a telecommunications third world country. Today, in the middle of metropolis Jakarta, you can Skype with video on their wireless XL network - I am not a little proud I am one of the team that started that company, and began the GSM network build, a bunch of New Yorkers competing with networks set up for the Indonesians by the Dutch PTT and German Deutsche Telekom. Today, Indonesia has the highest growth rate in the world in mobile internet. Teens to boomers Facebook on millions and millions of Blackberrys..