Monthly Archives: August 2007

A critical gap that means most service platform (IMS/SDP) business cases keep failing

IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) continues to struggle in market acceptance for a variety of reasons.  Hugh Bradlow from Telstra did a good summary recently.  The SDP (Service Delivery Platform) through a lack of standardisation is becoming a vast architecture with multiple definitions.  Linking IMS and SDP would appear to be a sure-fire-way of killing any […]

Is the On Device Portal (ODP) Evolving to Rich Mobile Applications (RMA)?

The term ‘on-device portal’ (ODP) describes ‘thin client’ software that provides a graphical user interface to improve the presentation of content on mobile devices,  addressing the ‘3 Ls:’ Latency, Look-and-feel, and Lack of availability (not always connected). The ODP market remains nascent.  However, we’ve seen this year some significant steps forward with the selection of […]

Is there resurgence in LBS (Location Based Services)?

Growth in LBS (Location Based Services) customers in North America (NA) last year (’05 to ’06) was roughly 150%, from 1.5M to 3.8M customers.  In ’05 NA LBS revenue was roughly $450M with Sprint accounting for 70% of that revenue.  Today Verizon and Sprint account for over 80% of operator LBS revenue in North America.  […]

Purpose of this Weblog

At the end of last year I created a slide-pack that summarized my learning from 2006.  I was very grateful for the feedback this material generated.  So I thought I’d have a go at sharing some of my insights through a weblog, to hopefully be of use to my friends and colleagues in the telecom […]