Day 1 of the Broadband World Forum started with Keynotes from Matt Bross (Huawei), Johan Bergendahl (Ericsson) and Oliver Baujard (Deutsche Telekom). Matt’s session was entitled “Innovation @ the speed of life.” Highlighting the problem operators have in focusing on phone numbers and addresses not people, and the issue of lack of customer trust in […]
In a couple of weeks the main broadband event of the year will be held in Paris, the Broadband World Forum, October 26-28th, CNIT La Defense. By the numbers there will be 6000+ attendees, 280+ exhibitors, 200+ speakers, 125+ global carrier case studies & presentations. The latter number is key, like MWC (Mobile World Congress) […]
Its the first time since its inception that I’ll not be able to attend SDP Asia, instead I’ll be at the BBWF (BroadBand World Forum), I reviewed the BBWF conference and the sessions I’ll be running in this aricle. As a quick aside: DEMO is taking place this week, and congratulations to GotoCamera (previously HomeCamera) […]
With a new child at home I’ve been limiting travel, well trying to, so this year only the two most important conferences in my calendar are attended: Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Feb and Broadband World Forum (BBWF) in October. Informa have taken over BBWF so their massive conference machine, and in particular Gavin Whitechurch, […]
This article reviews some upcoming themes and the passed year’s themes. Looking Forward: MWC 2010 and some themes for the coming decade What will probably be the main themes of MWC (Mobile World Congress) 2010? Unfortunately, LTE (Long Term Evolution) will be a key focus of the show. I’ve discussed previously why most operators do […]
Opening Points: A smart pipe strategy is now critical to an operator’s service innovation plans as we saw with Vodafone, Joint Innovation Labs, Orange Partner, Telenor CPA; plus there are many more operators making money today in working with third parties, e.g. Globe, Telus, etc. However, all is not well in this ecosystem. Yesterday we […]
Overall view of the show: Better than ever to do business. The number of meetings, their quality, and the decisiveness of the people involved was up. MWC (Mobile World Congress) has returned to the days where the focus is business not hype. I hope they can keep this quality and focus in the years to […]
Last year I heard many people (Thomas Howe, Martin Geddes, and Brough Turner to name just a few) talking very positively about a new conference, eComm (Emerging Communications Conference), it attracted 300 people and 80 speakers from 15 countries. eComm brings together people leading the change in telecoms from both inside the industry and out. […]
This article provides a brief summary on Day One of Informa’s SDP Asia conference in Singapore on the 26th November. A preview of the conference was given in this article. With 70 registered attendees and about 55 attendees in the room on Day One, APAC is bucking the trend in conference attendance by showing solid […]
At the end of November I’ll be attending Informa’s SDP Asia conference in Singapore. I’ll be running a post-conference workshop on the 28th November, and a couple of sessions through the conference (26-27 November). Outlines of the sessions are shown below, and the conference brochure can be downloaded here. The purpose of this article is […]