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Worst of the Week: Jet-lagged

Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way. We hope you enjoy it!

And without further ado:
So I am going to take a slightly different angle to Worst of the Week because I have been traveling this week to China and D.C. and the worst thing of the week is airline travel. Whether it is the middle seat, long international flights, domestic delays (four hours, Frontier, because you didn’t factor in the pilots’ flying time restrictions, really?) airline food, lack of individual TV sets or clean bathrooms, air travel can be trying.

So consider this column more of a “Random thoughts while jet-lagged” feature:
 China Telecom definitely had some interesting presentations over the two days I was in Guangzhou. I think what was most interesting is that the operator (which is the big fixed-line service provider in the country and has 100-year-old roots in the space) is changing the way it does business because customers only care about devices and applications these days. If China Telecom is learning to be more flexible, the rest of the world should probably take note.
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ABOUT AUTHOR

Tracy Ford
Tracy Ford
Former Associate Publisher and Executive Editor, RCR Wireless NewsCurrently HetNet Forum Director703-535-7459 tracy.ford@pcia.com Ford has spent more than two decades covering the rapidly changing wireless industry, tracking its changes as it grew from a voice-centric marketplace to the dynamic data-intensive industry it is today. She started her technology journalism career at RCR Wireless News, and has held a number of titles there, including associate publisher and executive editor. She is a winner of the American Society of Business Publication Editors Silver Award, for both trade show and government coverage. A graduate of the Minnesota State University-Moorhead, Ford holds a B.S. degree in Mass Communications with an emphasis on public relations.