Tag Archives: Wadaro

End of 2012 Entry: An Eventful and Noisy Year

In this end of year article I’ll review 2012 and look at a few of the things coming up in 2013.  2012 has been an eventful year, we tend to miss how eventful as we’re busy working and raising our families (a life-long commitment!).  The year opened with some operators finally admitting revenues are in […]

A Rapidly Growing Problem for Mobile Operators: NOT Security of Network Equipment Software but Unapproved Handsets from China

It’s not discussed in public by operators or regulators or the BSMA (that is an intentional typo on the GSMA given some of its PR).  Though this weblog has been discussing it for a number of years when we reviewed Wadaro back in 2008, and presented some interesting analysis this year: it’s the impact of […]

Data from Wadaro Comparing how Phones and Phone Manufacturers Perform as the Customer Experiences It

Wadaro, a start-up to watch, has been discussed in a number of previous weblog articles.  They’re now deployed across a number of operators and the tip of a very large iceberg of results from monitoring the network as the customers’ experience it are described here.  For reasons of confidentiality the networks these results were gathered […]

MWC 2012 Summary: The Trials and Tribulations of Entering Middle Age

This year I brought my wife and 2-year-old son to Barcelona; we arrived on the Thursday before MWC (Mobile World Congress).  Barcelona is great for small children with lots of playgrounds, some with crèches that bring out their toys to play with making it great fun.  The restaurants go the extra mile in making the […]

Focusing on the Basics and Why Limiting Ourselves to Standards Accelerates the Decline to a Utility Business Model of Internet Access

We all experience it, dropped calls, inability to connect to the network, garbled voice, painfully slow internet access, etc.  Why is the core service still less than completely reliable when its been around for 20 years?  The problem in-part is how operators test their network to capture these issues is based on standards created at […]

Mobile World Congress 2011 Summary

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 […]

The Long Slow March towards a Utility Business Model: Mobile World Congress Summary 2009

Overall view of the show: Better than ever to do business. The number of meetings, their quality, and the decisiveness of the people involved was up.  MWC (Mobile World Congress) has returned to the days where the focus is business not hype.  I hope they can keep this quality and focus in the years to […]

Startups to Watch: Wadaro, monitoring mobile network and services performance.

We’ve all experienced it: you’re on a call, not moving around, just talking and the call drops, you check the signal level on the phone and it’s gone only to return to near full strength as you check.  Does the operator even know what’s just happened?  And then when you’re on the move, for example […]

An Industry at the Crossroads: Mobile World Congress 2008 Summary

Overall My impression of MWC (Mobile World Congress, nee 3GSM) is it was quieter than last year, less hype and less people; however, the organizers claim attendance was up 3000, perhaps they were all the pick-pockets?  I think the industry is at a crossroad, in my discussions with operators internet access is the product that’s […]