The WebRTC pre-conference workshop at the IMS World Forum was well attended, close to 70 people, with a 50:50 split between suppliers and operators. The agenda was structured so the morning was spent reviewing WebRTC technically and commercially, then we had WebRTC demos in the afternoon showing how WebRTC can be mashed up in many […]
The Policy Control and Data Pricing Conference took place between the 16-17th April. Its a ‘who’s who’ of Policy Control and Charging (PCC), and provides a great litmus test on the state of industry. The discussions this year were quite frank with open disagreements; the worry of signalling storms appeared to have abated. Reviewing the […]
Here is the final agenda for the WebRTC pre-conference workshop we’re running on Monday 22nd April at the IMS World Forum. The interesting stuff is at the end with all the WebRTC demos, its going to be exciting, there’s a rich variety of demos showing just the tip of the iceberg of innovations we’re going […]
At the recent Broadband World Forum Asia 2013 conference, Korea Telecom’s EVP Tae-Yol Yoo predicted the collapse of voice and SMS services revenues in Korea: KT’s PSTN revenue has dropped from $5.4 billion in 2008 to $2.7 billion in 2012; Its mobile voice revenue fell from $6.2 billion in 2010 to $5.2 billion last year […]
Last week I had an interesting chat with the founders of Blue Butterfly, Andy King and Jack Wall. Blue Butterfly has created an interesting new service for businesses and their customers that uses NFC (Near Field Communications), QR (Quick Response) codes, and any other widely adopted machine readable technology that pops up in the future. […]
Voxeo Labs continues to give me free reign across their customers to chat about their experiences in running their businesses on Telecom APIs; such as myaNUMBER, Crunched, TeleSmart and there are many more weblogs to come. It’s a wonderful experience to see real businesses built on telecoms APIs and those businesses loving it. Love is […]
I’ve reviewed a number of businesses running on voice APIs this year, including: Crunched (love their service, especially now it supports wideband voice), Telesmart, myaNUMBER, Drum by Netdev. There’s no doubt there’s a business in Telecom APIs, seriously, there are still deniers out there (mostly within Telcos). And it’s good to see this knowledge spreading […]
On Thursday Movable Type finally decided to corrupt its database every time we uploaded new content. We changed the database from SQLite to MySQL and back again, upgraded and downgraded Movable Type, and did a whole host of things to try and diagnose the problem, only to see the same internal server error when new […]
It’s been a fun few weeks in the API space. Lots of announcements and gossip which we’ve been discussing in the Linkedin Telecom API group. Oracle and ACME Packet, Oracle and Tekelec, Intel and Aepona, GSMA and OneAPI Exchange, Apigee and API Exchange, Orange closing down some of its APIs, QoS APIs, WebRTC and more… The […]
Three additional start-ups will be joining the demos at the WebRTC pre-conference at the IMS World Forum, Barcelona, 23-25 April 2013. Note the focus of the demos is start-ups sharing their experiences in implementing services with WebRTC straight from the developers, not established vendors promoting their equipment and filtered through marketing. apidaze.io is a cloud communications API […]