The telecom and IT industries tend to suffer more than most from the hype cycle. What surprises me is the hype tends to be around technologies rather than solutions. I guess it’s easier to get excited about a something that ‘could do’ rather than ‘can do.’ At present the hype machine in gearing up on […]
Singapore is running an interesting experiment with its 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 National Broadband […]
IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) continues to struggle in market acceptance for a variety of reasons. Hugh Bradlow from Telstra did a good summary recently. The SDP (Service Delivery Platform) through a lack of standardisation is becoming a vast architecture with multiple definitions. Linking IMS and SDP would appear to be a sure-fire-way of killing any […]
The term ‘on-device portal’ (ODP) describes ‘thin client’ software that provides a graphical user interface to improve the presentation of content on mobile devices, addressing the ‘3 Ls:’ Latency, Look-and-feel, and Lack of availability (not always connected). The ODP market remains nascent. However, we’ve seen this year some significant steps forward with the selection of […]
Growth in LBS (Location Based Services) customers in North America (NA) last year (’05 to ’06) was roughly 150%, from 1.5M to 3.8M customers. In ’05 NA LBS revenue was roughly $450M with Sprint accounting for 70% of that revenue. Today Verizon and Sprint account for over 80% of operator LBS revenue in North America. […]
At the end of last year I created a slide-pack that summarized my learning from 2006. I was very grateful for the feedback this material generated. So I thought I’d have a go at sharing some of my insights through a weblog, to hopefully be of use to my friends and colleagues in the telecom […]