The week of the 23-26 April is going to be busy for anyone involved with IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) or policy control and real-time charging. From the 23rd-26th April 2012 at the NH Eurobuilding, Madrid, Spain the IMS World Forum will be running. In reviewing the status of IMS: Verizon continues its aggressive roll-out of […]
This year I brought my wife and 2-year-old son to Barcelona; we arrived on the Thursday before MWC (Mobile World Congress). Barcelona is great for small children with lots of playgrounds, some with crèches that bring out their toys to play with making it great fun. The restaurants go the extra mile in making the […]
An operator is composed of three domains: Network, IT and Services. Historically we’ve treated the services domain as something that can be solved by a piece of technology, called the SDP (Service Delivery Platform). This has resulted in the industry’s slow response to the competitive threats of web-based service providers, which are now starting to […]
Voxeo has quietly built over the past 12 years an impressive enterprise voice and messaging business. Their business began in hosted IVR (Interactive Voice Response) where they’ve achieved a leadership position as shown in the Ovum analysis below. However, through their 250k strong developer community they’re really now a leader in communication enabled business processes. […]
The vendor keynotes on Day 2 of the Broadband World Forum were again rather dry and focused on why operators should buy more complex networks. A common vendor claim was that a 10% increase in broadband connectivity results in some % increase in GDP (Gross Domestic Product). I have a sneaking feeling that there is […]
The Broadband World Forum continues to grow with attendees from 120 countries, 280 speakers (most were operators), 150 sponsors and exhibitors, 400 service providers and over 7500 attendees. Gavin Whitechurch and his team deserve much respect for transforming BBWF into the Broadband event of the year. At the session I chaired on next generation broadband […]
At the SDP World Summit in Berlin, one of the presentations I’m giving is on M2M (Machine to Machine), a theme in that presentation is the challenge operators will have in M2M is its much more than just the telecoms bit of the problem. I’ll review that presentation in the weblog summary of the conference […]
We’re reaching an interesting stage in operators’ attempts to remain relevant to customers beyond voice and internet access, which still remains a nice business, yet commoditization continues, albeit at a slower pace than most have predicted. The slow pace shows the strength of state-granted duopolies / oligopolies. Though we’re seeing a mounting chorus in the […]
Cloud Asia ran from 30 May – 2 June 2011 in Singapore. It was co-organized by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, who is investing heavily in Cloud to make Singapore a hub for the region, and Informa. In attendance were around 250 delegates from enterprises of all kinds, cloud technology suppliers, cloud service providers […]
We’ve all watched over the past week the mess that is Apple’s PR over tracking people’s location in iOS4. Apple entered a state of denial in being caught doing such a heinous action that it can not even admit the act to itself. A team of researchers discovered that iOS4 is (was) secretly obtaining the […]