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The Litany of Excuses Stifling Communication Innovation Part 2

This previous article set out the litany of excuses given as to why communication innovation has stopped in operators; and as promised we’re now going to work through how those excuses can be solved / avoided / ignored. To begin with there is the classic “We tried that service (or similar service) in our market […]

Apple Facetime Sounds the Death Knell for Upfront Per-Service Charging

Apple Facetime looks like its going to be another in the series of video communication applications that are proving to be more successful than the mobile industry’s attempts at video telephony, which began at the turn of this century and unfortunately have changed little since. Skype was the first video communication service to hit mainstream.  […]