That crazy old Internet! Some wireless execs e-mailed letters to Santa Claus but somehow they ended up in my inbox. (OK, our managing editor Dan Meyer bribed a few elves down on their luck last time he was in Vegas). And although it may be a federal offense, we opened these letters to Santa and read them and I thought you’d want to read them too.
Dear Santa,
This year I would like world peace. And by that I mean a year free of lawsuits, patent-infringement challenges, etc., played out in various courts around the world. It would be really awesome if I didn’t have to hear the phrase International Trade Commission.
–Paul Jacobs, Qualcomm
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Dear St. Nick,
Is it freezing up at the North Pole? I hope you are keeping warm. Speaking of freezing, I see that the LTE standard has been frozen until March, which might give some network vendors time to actually build an LTE product. I don’t think that’s a wise idea. Could you find a way to melt it a little so it can keep shifting? I don’t want to contribute to global warming, but can you do something? Maybe a patent challenge from one of the players would thaw the standard out a little. I’d just like to keep my head start a little longer, please.
–Ben Wolff, Clearwire
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Dear Santa,
We have a business proposition for you: What are your elves doing early in 2009? Maybe they would like to visit Illinois. We are sad this year because we had to stop contributing to our 401(k) and freeze salaries for our employees, which we really didn’t want to do. But we still need workers and so if the elves are free and have a few new innovations from the assembly line, we could sure use their help. We have been good boys this year, we even took pay cuts.
–Greg Brown and Sanjay Jha, Motorola
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Dear Kris Kringle,
All I want for Christmas is an FCC meeting in early January so I can set the start date for the AWS-3 auction, which I intend to start and finish before Jan. 20. We’ll probably both be on vacation by then so the sooner the better.
–Kevin Martin, FCC
And on that note, thanks for giving us a lot to ponder and report in 2008 and here’s wishing you all a prosperous 2009.
