The CEO of LightSquared has said telecommunications firms are making a mistake in trying to build intelligence into their networks, and should instead go dumb.According to Sanjiv Ahuja, who is heading the company’s push to set up a new LTE mobile network in the US, there is no point in trying to build intelligence into the connectivity market. Instead, network operators should just be dumb pipes, like utility companies.
“We want to be the dumbest wireless broadband pipe,” he told delegates at the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco. “I want no intelligence in our network, we are an absolute utility. When Edison invented the electricity he didn’t make the toasters it powered.”
LightSquared Will Be a 'dumb Pipe,' CEO Says - PC World
"I want no intelligence in our network. None. Zero," [CEO Sanjiv] Ahuja said during a keynote address at the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco. "We are an absolute utility." Innovation will come out of competition in an open environment like LightSquared's, not from the carrier itself, he said. Even suppliers of devices will be able to introduce new technologies for use on the network without working through LightSquared, he said.
Ahuja, who previously ran Orange, one of the world's largest mobile operators, said it isn't the place of a carrier to dictate or develop the hardware and software that defines the use of a network. There are other innovators around the world to bring those to market, he said. He pointed to a LightSquared "sandbox" facility in Silicon Valley where startups have come to get help from LightSquared on developing applications and services for the carrier's network.
"We have too many devices and too little airwaves."
"Connectivity is a utility. And the model that has existed... this is the opportunity to disrupt it."
- LightSquared CEO, Sanjiv Ahuja
He wants to divest himself of any liabilities that might arise due to cyber terrorism, or any other compromise to software...good business plan.
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