Gordon And Mike's Ict Podcast

In this podcast we take a look at the emergence of broadband and wireless technologies over the past 20 years. Mike: What lead to this podcast? Gordon: It was an email from a colleague of ours - Mark at the MATEC NSF center. Here’s what he said: I  was reading this PC Magazine article on why Apple stayed with AT&T (not happy about that since AT&T really stinks in Phoenix on coverage – if I remember correctly, one of the worst coverages and signals here.  In fact, Sprint is really the only company that works well by the mountains (where I live and work).  But the article stated: CDMA, the way Verizon and Sprint are doing it, is a dead end. Apple hates dead-end technologies. They look forward, not back. Remember how they got rid of floppy disks earlier than any other PC manufacturer? The current CDMA technology that Sprint and Verizon use still has some years of life left on it, but it's not where wireless is heading. Ok, so CDMA is dead.  But what is 4G?  And is all 4G using GSM?  Sprint is starti