At the IMS World Forum we ran a workshop on IMS and WebRTC, its full title “IMS World Forum Pre-Conference Workshop: A New Wave of Communication Service Innovation: IMS and WebRTC.” The presentations are shown below, the running order kicked off with me frankly reviewing the challenges we face with service innovation, so after I got […]
Let me kick off with an obvious statement but it needs repeating: WebRTC is about communications not just telephony. Which has an important corollary: telephony is not dead, its just becoming a bit-part in the emerging web-centric communications landscape. The first ever WebRTC Global Summit ran from March 31st – April 2nd in London. Congratulations […]
IMS may not be everyone’s ‘favorite cup of tea’, but it’s there in most networks. Put simply, for any operator migrating their services to IP, and in particular voice, what choice do you have? But rather than complain about architectural correctness, it’s time to get over the silly academic architectural wars and focus on services […]
It was the first time in 15 years I did not make the annual pilgrimage to MWC (Mobile World Congress). Some of the reasons being: The BS and detachment from market reality of the GSMA which impacts MWC; The ridiculously large event which means I’m spending more time racing between meetings than in meetings; The […]
TADS (Telecom Application Developer Summit) is an independent grassroots initiative to raise the profile of telecom application developers with the resources to support them, and create a sustainable and profitable telecom application ecosystem. One of the requests from people who could not make it to the TADSummit last year was to help organize local events […]
TADHack (Telecom Application Developer Hackathon) is a global event, created and driven by the grassroots of the industry to help developers discover the latest ways to add communications to their application, services and business processes. And compete for $20k in prize money. It is unique because it brings together all relevant telecom application development tools […]
Telcos are faced with a tough choice by some of their vendors, “IMS, what choice do you have?” If telcos’ services do not work reliably they suffer through public humiliation. Remember when AT&T had an exclusive deal on iPhone in the US? Jon Stewart from the Daily Show said about owning an iPhone in NYC […]
Below are photo reviews from TADS 2013. I hope they give you a flavor of what happened at TADS, and for the 100+ attendees a nice reminder of what happened only 2 months ago. My TADS review is here. All the presentation slides are available for the Telco Summit and Developer Summit, and the videos […]
Better late than never, I’ve finally got around to the BBWF (Broadband World Forum) summary. No 2014 trends weblog this year, its simply become too passé. I’ll likely do something in the summer on trends. BBWF is a great litmus test across the whole of the telecom industry. This year the theme that hit me […]
The first ever Telecom API conference ran in London from 11-13th November. We ran a packed pre-conference workshop (see picture opposite) entitled, “All You Wanted to Know About Telecom APIs, But Were Too Afraid to Ask!” with about 30 attendees from around the world. Presentations included Tropo, Apidaze and Telestax. Below are the slides presented […]