Day 2 of the SDP Global Summit kicked off as strong as the first day with an Analyst panel including Peter Mottishaw (Analysys Mason) and Shira Levine (Infonectics) the source of many of the market numbers on SDP. Shira showed the SDP market was $2.7B in 2010 and is growing to $5.2B in 2015 with […]
Day 1 of the SDP Global Summit kicked off with an impressive line-up of operator case studies from Michel Burger of Vodafone, Medhat Amer of Mobily, Mohammed Aldhwaiyan of STC and Mario Domingo of Globe. Common themes to their success include: SDP is not a product, it’s a project covering people, processes and technology (an […]
If proof were ever needed on the success of BlueVia in getting operator APIs right, is the endorsement of Twitter in using BlueVia’s APIs. I show below the release and links to the Twitter weblog and BlueVia weblog. Tomorrow (Thursday 22nd Sept) Jose Valles, the head of BlueVia, will be presenting during my session at […]
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 […]
Over the past couple of years we’ve seen a number of Telco API programs launched, as well as some re-focus and / or re-launch. Generally, the programs are growing with monthly revenue in the range of $1-5M. Which for most new businesses would be considered quite reasonable. However, Telcos being what they are, expectations are […]
I’ve worked across the Cable / Telco divide for several years and remain perplexed at the lack of communications between the two groups. The analogy I draw between the Telco and Cable industries is that of a Jungle and a Smurf village, see picture below. In Telco the operators within a country are in competition […]
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 […]
The purpose of the slides shown below is to provide a flavor of the issues discussed at IMS World Forum with a commentary on what they mean and where IMS is going. It can only capture my perspective given the streams I attended, but I hope provides more insight into what was covered in the […]
Below is a presentation that summarizes some of the interim results of the update I’m doing to the original “IMS Market Status” report described in this article. It was prepared during the IMS World Forum conference to fill-in for a potential gap in the schedule, but the gap did not happen, so it wasn’t presented, […]
BlueVia is Telefonica’s API program where developers get paid to use Telefonica’s APIs. We’ve seen a number of case studies promoted within a few months of its launch, see slideshows at the end of this article. Developers are making money through using BlueVia’s APIs. BlueVia has announced a partnership with Microsoft to create the BlueVia […]