For a bit of fun I’ve put together a questionnaire around telco business model evolution. With questions on advertising models, app stores, API exposure, operator as a trusted agent, sharing of networks, quad play, etc. If you have the time I’d be grateful if you’d complete, and I’ll share the results in this weblog article.
At MWC 2010 there was a workshop on OneAPI were the GSMA announced the launch of a commercial pilot in Canada with the country’s operators Bell Mobility, Rogers Communications, and TELUS to demonstrate the viability and benefits of providing third parties with standardized application programming interfaces (APIs). Through the OneAPI initiative, the GSMA is promoting […]
Network APIs do not require a developer community. Its just an API: publish, provide code examples, define the process on how a third party can access the API, and you’re done. Network APIs are not necessary for an operator’s App Store. For example operators have been selling content and apps on their portals for years, […]
API Management has been touched upon by several articles in this weblog. To expand on this topic to help us understand its function and strategic importance to operators I’ve put together a whitepaper with Sonoa Systems, a leading provider of API Management to companies such as MTV Networks, Alcatel Lucent and Guardian Life Insurance. The […]
Apologies for the gap in publishing, with the birth of my son, Liam, on the 28th Nov, and a rush of end of year projects; I’ve just not had the time. But with the holidays coming up, I have a backlog of material to publish 🙂 Today I had an experience that is critical to […]
Last year I was reading Jack Weatherford’s book “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.” One of Genghis Khan’s early critical achievements was stopping the inter-clan wars, so the Mongols focused outside Mongolia, and went on to conquer most of the known world. Taking each city-state in turn through a simple 3 step […]
The 4th annual SDP Asia Conference took place in Singapore from 27-28 October 2009. It was as well attended as ever, with over 70 attendees from around the region. Some of the operators presenting at the conference included: Krishna N Basudevan, GM, Information Technology, Aircel Ltd, India; Clark Lam, Director of Service Platforms in Consumer […]
O2 Litmus just announced the winners of its application competition: Intelligenti Publishing, who takes home the £10k prize; and Two apps shortlisted by a judging panel of O2 customers were: Percula Software’s EventHorizon; and Live TalkBack. Live TalkBack is founded by Matt Millar, who was on my panel session at the Smart Pipes Event in […]
Patrick Murphy (email Pat) has just released an excellent report on the status of communication enabled business processes (CEBP) that is likely to become a reference text in the emergence of this important category for both operators and application developers. The report provides an overview of the CEBP industry relative to Telco APIs and voice […]
At the 4G Wireless Evolution conference earlier this week in LA I moderated the session “The Ecosystem of Application Developers.” On the panel were: Shai Berger, CEO Fonolo; Kent Winter, SVP Sales Apex Voice TS Ramakrishnan, CTO BubbleMotion; Francisco Kattan, Sr. Director Developer Ecosystem Alcatel-Lucent; and Karl Good, Technical Director Truphone. A video of the […]