<UPDATE: At the request of a client I will be attending MWC in 2013, so see you there 🙂 If it was on my own company’s dollar then this article still stands. Also I just booked the flight, the price was good and seats were left, which was a little surprising.> Usually by this time […]
The conference agenda and slides can be downloaded here. At first blush it would appear RCS (Rich Communications Suite) has adopted OMA’s (Open Mobile Alliance) Converged IP Messaging (CIM) spec so work is complete. But that means CIM is wholly dependent on RCS, which has the dumb dependency of IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem), which is […]
A recent WSJ article “Talking Less, Paying More for Voice” discussed the fact that usage of voice is in decline; and identifies some of the culprits for the decline: The iPhone, SMS, Yelp, Facebook, email, young people dominate everything and they do not call anymore, and other web services. While most of these are true […]
Wadaro, a start-up to watch, has been discussed in a number of previous weblog articles. They’re now deployed across a number of operators and the tip of a very large iceberg of results from monitoring the network as the customers’ experience it are described here. For reasons of confidentiality the networks these results were gathered […]
Operators must focus on ways to improve communications success to remain relevant as the customer’s primary communications service provider, that’s the one that gets paid rather than giving it away. From my projects I have lists of hundreds of services operators could launch to improve on the basic communications experience, including the one mentioned below. […]
In reviewing the seething mass of marketing BS in the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) industry I see 5 main trend categories: Internet of things: ehealth, connected car, smart networks, sensor networks, mobile / portable devices, home storage, home networks and devices; Internet of services: analytics (aka big data, including predictive analysis), cloud computing / […]
In the slides below I capture highlights from 3 presentations of note given in the conference. Larry Baziw (Rogers): Rogers One Number Larry gave the highlight presentation of the conference that reviewed RON (Rogers One Number), a consumer UC (Unified Communications) service between the mobile and the PC, using the mobile number as the unifying […]
The Policy Control and Real-Time Charging Conference ran from the 24th-26th April 2012 at the Krasnapolsky Hotel, Amsterdam. The conference included operator presentations / case studies from Swisscom, Reliance, Turkcell, Vodafone, KPN, and Orange. I ran a post-conference workshop on the 26th April entitled “Policy Control and Charging Workshop: An Independent and Quantified Review,” the […]
At the IMS (IP Multiedia Subsystem) World Forum I gave a pre-conference workshop that summarized some of the results gathered in the IMS Status Report. The conference backed up the findings in the Report, and highlighted the many technology and business challenges we face as IMS rolls out. An interesting discussion point raised on both […]
I try not to prejudge, to write-off, as we all suck at predicting the future. But I sometimes just need to rant, here are a few. Connected Car. Why when everyone in the car already has a smartphone / tablet that’s up to the minute and customized to their needs. Not 3-6 year old technology […]