In reading the reviews of the telecom year, I see both iPhone and Android pop up as two of the most significant changes on the telecom industry. I think it’s important that we stop and think a moment. On the iPhone: I already have music on my phone, I can do email, I have a […]
Back in September I did an entry on the IDA’s IN2015 (Intelligent Nation 2015) initiative. Quoting from their website: “The Next Generation National Infocomm Infrastructure (Next Gen NII) is Singapore’s new digital super-highway. Next Gen NII comprises complementary wired and wireless networks to ensure Singaporeans enjoy seamless connectivity. The wired broadband network or Next Generation […]
SDP Asia was held in Singapore 26th-29th November 2007. It’s the 2nd such event Informa has run, and presented a chance to test out some of the ideas I’ve been developing within the US and European markets around the Application Network Interface and its role within the SDP (Service Delivery Platform). SDP is a broad […]
The telecom press normally focus upon consumer based services, such as MobileTV, mobile gaming, or mobile access to MySpace or Facebook. Behind the scenes is the less glamorous but more profitable enterprise communications scene with services such as: Visual Voicemail: speech to text (note its recent appearance on the iPhone); Unified Business Communications: bringing together […]
I attended the Connect 2007 Conference in Boston on 2nd October. It’s organized by NMS, and it’s FREE! NMS run several developer conferences so have a slick organization on such events, and are now branching out into a broader industry discussion addressable to Director/VP/CxO level in both suppliers and operators. It kicked off with a […]
Some DSL (Digital Subscriber Loop) providers have certainly led the industry in communicating rates for their service that are unlikely to ever be experienced by their customers, with statements such as “Speeds upto 50 Mbit/s,” note that all-important ‘upto’ term. Ofcom in the UK has started an investigation into this practice. Physical loop limitations mean that […]
UC (Unified Communications) brings together the communication and data networks of an enterprise. The Innovative Communications Alliance (ICA), led by Nortel and Microsoft, is creating the hype surrounding UC. The purpose of this article is not to discuss UC within the enterprise, rather look at the emerging mobilization of UC and the impact it could […]
I attended the FierceMarket’s IMS Executive Summit 2007 on the 19th and 20th September. The agenda included keynote presentations from Stuart Elby, Vice President, Network Architecture, Verizon; Mark Kaish, Vice President of Voice Development and Support, Cox Communications, and Narothum Saxena, Senior Director of Advanced Technology and Systems Planning, US Cellular. Learning from the event […]
FMC is a tired term. Some operators and quite a few enterprises are fed-up of listening to ill-formed, technology-centric FMC pitches. Taking a simplistic view, when a consumer has a mobile phone, why do they need FMC? With virtually unlimited ‘night and weekend’ rates they already have cheap calling at home. For an enterprise, when […]
About 2 years ago I did a couple of projects around the SCIM (Service Capability Interaction Manager). It’s an illusive component within the IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) standards, because it’s only described in one paragraph of the 3GPP R7 (3rd Generation Project Partnership Release 7) standards issued earlier this year. The SCIM isn’t standardized, it’s […]