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AT&T’s Tea Leaves – What’s ahead for mobile developers in 2011.

* Note:  This is a first in our series of 2011 Predictions.  Check back every day next week for others, and on January 1 for a collection of all of them, and to vote for your favorite.

 

One of my favourite people in the mobile developer ecosystem is Ed Schmidt from AT&T.  Ed is a Director in their Developer Program which is a nice title and all, but doesn’t really speak to the volume of his knowledge of mobile development nor his passion for developers.  I thought it would be fun to interview him…

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Are Operators’ Changes To Data Plans On Your Radar?

Vodafone UK announced this week that it was making a significant change to its unlimited data plans, and will now begin charging users if they go over 500MB of traffic in a month. This comes after operators like AT&T and Verizon in the US have talked about seeing the industry shift to usage-based data pricing from flat-rate or unlimited plans. These sorts of stories might not seem all that important for mobile developers, but they're worth paying attention to.

Undoubtedly one of the industry trends that sowed the seeds of the current boom in mobile data…

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