And on my first day in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, it happened to me with my BlackBerry Z10.

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When I began my career as a telecom analyst in 1996 (after nearly a decade of consulting and marketing experience), my first report was on the subject of mobile data.

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At my first test location, the T-Mobile Rocket drove the ThinkPad to an average download speed of 4.88 megabits per second, versus just 1.36 megabits per second for the Verizon data modem.

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These come from my very first piece for Forbes entitled Marketers And Advertisers, Are You Mobile?

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My fourth investment, and the first one I led, was into a mobile applications company, which was also ahead of its time and never truly understood its market.

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Two days after I first tried this experiment, I got a call from Paypal on my BE mobile phone (which I have entered when I created my BE Paypal account).

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