The Cable Labs Summer Conference was held at Keystone Colorado. Its a gathering of the North Amercia cable industry, its similar to the Mobile World Congress for meeting with many of the industry’s execs as you walk between meetings. Given most MSOs do not directly compete, there’s lots of friendly and open discussions on technical […]
Mind Commerce asked if I’d put together an IMS Status Report. Its an attempt to provide an independent and quantified view of what is happening in the industry. I’m also including some operator and supplier case studies, presenting as factually as possible the current state of the art; without the hype and marketing spin that […]
OpenCloud ran a great panel discussion event last week entitled “The Stranded Service Provider,” accompanied by a white paper that’s available on their website. On the panel were myself and: Tereza Borges, head of NSN’s next gen applications Keith Dyer, Editor of Mobile Europe John Logsdon, MD of NetDev Marlon Bowser, MD of HTK Kris […]
North America is an exception in the mobile broadband (MBB) market amongst developed nations. At the end of Q1 2009 there were 17.3 million data-only HSPA subscriptions in Europe, 14% of all broadband connections are now mobile and mobile is growing at 5 times the rate of fixed broadband. Depending on how you calculate it, […]
Earlier this week I discovered Telstra have launched an integrated storefront experience called the TelstraOne Experience: across the phone’s features, web, content, games, customer relationship management, and all the other services they provide. Critically, its front-and-center of the customer’s phone experience and aimed at one-click access. See picture and video below on its operation. Its […]
In the article Reinventing the On Device Portal – The App Store, I reviewed how Apple’s implementation of its App Store on the iPhone provides a template for operators and how the struggling ODP (On Device Portal) can come into its own. I’ve reviewed the ODP landscape, its struggles and evolution in previous weblog articles. […]
In previous articles I’ve reviewed the consolidation of the service fulfillment space amongst small and medium sized companies: OSS Consolidation Part 1: Examining Service Management (Fulfillment and Assurance) – original article that provides the definitions used, explained the disconnect between the two categories of fulfillment and assurance, and provided a service fulfillment landscape. Update on […]
There are 4 main application store provider categories: Operating System: Google Android, Microsoft Mobile Consumer Electronics: Apple, Nokia (Ovi), RIM, Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft Xbox Mobile Storefronts: Getjar, Handango, and in the future Amazon (they’ve already started with Kindle) Operator: Vodafone (Live), OrangeWorld, O2 Active Though the term app store is not entirely correct, as some […]
I’ve reviewed the impact video is having on networks in articles such as : The Mobile Broadband Explosion: Mobile Broadband finally reaches the Tipping Point The Internet’s gone Video: What does that mean to operators? Mobile Broadband and DSL Broadband: How do the customers’ experiences compare? Human Behaviour and Mobile Broadband Pricing One of the […]
As mentioned in a previous aricle on virtualization I use SaaS (Software as a Service) and PaaS (Platform as a Service) interchangeably as I remain unconvinced of the difference from a customer’s perspective. The cloud computing market size, depending upon how it’s defined, is estimated to be about $50B by 2011, of which 70% is […]