NEW YORK - As a summit between the President of the world's superpower and the "masters of the cyber-universe" could be better. Barack Obama and top Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have been humiliated by the flop of their phones. There is a "yellow" after the dinner with the president and the leaders of Google, Facebook, Apple on Thursday night, because none of them said something about Twitter? Usually these events come from the mini-real-time signals, bits of gossip, or some philosophical meditation.
Instead, the evening held in the Woodside home of the famous venture capitalist John Doerr, everything was silent. Discretion, privacy? A bit 'strange, in this age of transparency. And then the dinner with Obama, Steve Jobs, Marck Zuckerberg and the other was a public relations event, not a summit to discuss trade secrets.
The real reason for quell'assordante digital silence he confessed because the same chief executive of Twitter, Dick Ribs (who attended the dinner with the others): "The phones were not working, there was no coverage in that area, can not send tweet. " As in many areas of Silicon Valley, however.
Who frequents that area knows that the "cradle" of all the technological revolutions of the last fifty years is one of the world's worst equipped in terms of repeaters. At one time it was a source of pride: all about environmentalism, which prevented a blot on the landscape with the "towers".
But the excuse does not explain why cell phones work poorly in nearby San Francisco, where there are also skyscrapers and the antennas would dissumulate. On the other hand on the opposite coast, here in New York, we conclude that it is rare in "natural" conversation to your phone line without falling.
So thanks to the "dinner of the future" between Obama and the giants of Silicon Valley dropped the curtain on a dirty little secret of America: the country where the phones work worse and worse. The causes? Recently, we tend to blame the explosion of smartphones, Blackberry and iPhone in particular, whose applications eat up power by the networks.
But it is a partial explanation. In reality, the underlying cause is the behavior of the telecom companies. Smartphones for them are a source of profit, why not invest to strengthen the networks? Why telecoms are back to being an oligopoly. The industrial landscape of the sector is marked by an increasing concentration.
AT & T, T-Mobile and Verizon are the masters. In many U.S. states the choice for the user is limited to only two operators. In these situations, the collusion between the giants against the market is very easy. If the consumer has no alternative, because they invest in improving the service? Better to fatten corporate profits, and bonuses of chief executive.
Then reinvest them elsewhere: perhaps in financing election campaigns, including those of Obama. 
Instead, the evening held in the Woodside home of the famous venture capitalist John Doerr, everything was silent. Discretion, privacy? A bit 'strange, in this age of transparency. And then the dinner with Obama, Steve Jobs, Marck Zuckerberg and the other was a public relations event, not a summit to discuss trade secrets.
The real reason for quell'assordante digital silence he confessed because the same chief executive of Twitter, Dick Ribs (who attended the dinner with the others): "The phones were not working, there was no coverage in that area, can not send tweet. " As in many areas of Silicon Valley, however.
Who frequents that area knows that the "cradle" of all the technological revolutions of the last fifty years is one of the world's worst equipped in terms of repeaters. At one time it was a source of pride: all about environmentalism, which prevented a blot on the landscape with the "towers".
But the excuse does not explain why cell phones work poorly in nearby San Francisco, where there are also skyscrapers and the antennas would dissumulate. On the other hand on the opposite coast, here in New York, we conclude that it is rare in "natural" conversation to your phone line without falling.
So thanks to the "dinner of the future" between Obama and the giants of Silicon Valley dropped the curtain on a dirty little secret of America: the country where the phones work worse and worse. The causes? Recently, we tend to blame the explosion of smartphones, Blackberry and iPhone in particular, whose applications eat up power by the networks.
But it is a partial explanation. In reality, the underlying cause is the behavior of the telecom companies. Smartphones for them are a source of profit, why not invest to strengthen the networks? Why telecoms are back to being an oligopoly. The industrial landscape of the sector is marked by an increasing concentration.
AT & T, T-Mobile and Verizon are the masters. In many U.S. states the choice for the user is limited to only two operators. In these situations, the collusion between the giants against the market is very easy. If the consumer has no alternative, because they invest in improving the service? Better to fatten corporate profits, and bonuses of chief executive.
Then reinvest them elsewhere: perhaps in financing election campaigns, including those of Obama.
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