Home by 9PM on Saturday from the family vacation and back on a plane at 9AM Sunday for the flight to Las Vegas. On the napkin on the United flight to CES (Consumer Electronics Show) it said “Taking high tech to new altitudes” which was in stark contrast to the United plane (or product as […]
I was impressed with the AT&T Developer Hackathon that ran over this weekend, 400 developers with about 470 attendees in total, 74 apps created, lots of innovative uses of the Call Management API powered by Tropo™ from Voxeo Labs and Ericsson’s WebRTC Development Platform, including using mood (measures brainwaves) on whether a call goes through, […]
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 […]
The Telco Big Data conference ran from the 3-5 December in London. This is the first time for this event, which was well attended, and packed with operator presentations on their experiences in using Hadoop clusters in conjunction with their existing business intelligence (BI) systems. This is a key point, telcos are not new to […]
APIs (Application Programing Interface) in telecoms have a long history, starting in 1998/1999 when Telenor began its Content Provider Access API program and the launch of the Parlay API standards group. With such early beginnings it would be fair to expect APIs in Telecoms to be as, if not more, pervasive than most other industries. […]
LTE North America ran from 13-15 Nov in Dallas. There was a record 1000 delegates at the show, with 60 unique carriers in attendance from small local rural players such as the Texas-based ZIPnet US, to regionals such as MetroPCS, and of course, the duopoly of AT&T and Verizon. North America is a unique market […]
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 […]
Enabling employees to work as effectively outside as inside the office remains a wish rather than a reality for many businesses. To do that today requires much more than a voice connection; they need access to the enterprise’s business systems and collaboration tools. However, between the marketing claims and the practical reality of enterprise mobilization […]
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 […]
Apologies for typos and lack of links in this article, Hurricane Sandy took out our power and broadband, so I’m on a congested 3G network with lots of time-outs limiting online editing. BBWF (Broadband World Forum) continues to be a ‘sweet spot’ conference, not as big as MWC (Mobile World Congress) where prices are silly […]