Tag Archives: France Telecom

Telco Big Data and Real Time Analytics Summit

I’ll be in London next week (3-5 Dec) at the Telco Big Data and Real Time Analytics Summit, it’s the first time this conference has run, and I think presents an important opportunity to cut through all the hype and BS we’re seeing on Big Data.  The conference itself is packed with operator presentations sharing […]

Mobile Broadband: Backhaul’s the issue not the air interface

This old weblog article from 2008 discusses the cost structure of a typical mobile operator, and I show below the structure graphically.  The key figure is transport costs (backhaul) are roughly 7% of total costs back in 2008.  Some operators have seen that jump to over 15%-20% of total costs in under 2 years.  The […]

Why is IMS getting lumped into IPTV?

Telco IPTV market status / performance varies greatly by country, because of differences in broadband / PayTV penetration and the telco’s access to competitive national content.  Generalizations are difficult to draw.  Some countries have had rocky starts while others have been relatively trouble free.  Free and France Telecom are both now over 1.5 million IPTV […]