TADS (Telecom Application Developer Summit) is the ONLY GLOBAL MEETING place for Developers who want to learn, share, code and create with the latest technologies in free and open source telecom software, telecom APIs, unique telecom platforms, and WebRTC. TADS is also for Telcos wanting to discover new services and to understand how to work […]
The Big Data 13 conference will run from 30 Sep to the 1 Oct in Dubai, the agenda is now available. Its focused on the practical application of Big Data and Real-Time Analytics with a particular emphasis on the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) region. To kick off the conference we’ll have a fun live interactive […]
At the Mobility Tech Conference in Austin 3-5 Oct, Verizon, AT&T, Ericsson and a real live developer recently wrangled from the wild will take part in a frank and open discussion on the future of Service Innovation at 11 AM on Wednesday Oct 3rd. Panelists include: Bill Goodman, Director – Technology, Verizon Ivelin Ivanov, Founder […]
Overall Summary The fog of ‘hype / BS’ and ‘strategic consulting organization misdirection’ lifts, revealing a focus on real business coupled with an eye to long term survival. The conference was packed with quantified API case study successes. The end of this weblog has some slides with a few highlights from the conference. The biggest […]
The SDP (Service Delivery Platform) Global Summit 2012 takes place in Rome from the 11th-14th September. On Tuesday the 11th September is the API focus day. I recently founded a Telecom APIs group on Linkedin, its generating some interesting discussions such as: Discussion on “Is WAC Dead?” Survey on “The recently specified OMA RCS APIs?” […]
An operator is composed of three domains: Network, IT and Services. Historically we’ve treated the services domain as something that can be solved by a piece of technology, called the SDP (Service Delivery Platform). This has resulted in the industry’s slow response to the competitive threats of web-based service providers, which are now starting to […]
MWC 2011 was packed, they need two walking lanes in each direction, else allow the use of cattle prods to move people along who insist on doing the “smartphone prayer” (standing still, head bowed, staring at a screen) in the middle of doorways and walkways; it’s becoming a social problem. There was no one theme […]
hSenid (pronounced Senid, the h is silent) Mobile gave a workshop at SDP Asia on “SDP in the Cloud.” A summary of the material is available here. Though I was not able to attend, being at BBWF, I did have a chance to review the material. It provides an impartial review of the evolution of […]
Some DSL (Digital Subscriber Loop) providers have certainly led the industry in communicating rates for their service that are unlikely to ever be experienced by their customers, with statements such as “Speeds upto 50 Mbit/s,” note that all-important ‘upto’ term. Ofcom in the UK has started an investigation into this practice. Physical loop limitations mean that […]