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 […]
As mentioned in this previous article an interesting topic being discussed at the SDP Asia conference is ‘SDP in the Cloud’ as a pre-conference workshop run by hSenidMobile. I’ve covered this in a previous weblog article, but it’s great to see a pre-conference workshop focused on this topic, which includes case studies of Etisalat’s Cloud […]
A previous article set out the litany of excuses given as to why communication innovation has stopped in operators; and we’re working through how those excuses can be solved, avoided, or ignored. This article expands a little more on the excuse: “We can only focus on 4 service launches per year (because we only back […]
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) […]
This previous article set out the litany of excuses given as to why communication innovation has stopped in operators; and as promised we’re now going to work through how those excuses can be solved / avoided / ignored. To begin with there is the classic “We tried that service (or similar service) in our market […]
I was approached recently by IVO software, a leading TTS (Text To Speech) company, with their IVONA TTS service. Now on first sight you may think TTS is a rather old technology, which generally sounds like a disjoint Stephen Hawkings, struggles with acronyms and the contextual pronunciation of many words. But this is where IVO […]
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) […]
I came across this old presentation today on the business case for operators to open their network, shown below, some of the material is over 4 years old, especially on developer needs. Yet operators continue to ask developers what they need and developers provide the same answers, perhaps operators continue to ask in hope of […]
This weblog has referred many times to the potential of operators to understand their customers given their role as network provider. In this article I go a little deeper into the technology behind that statement, business intelligence. Business Intelligence (BI) refers to software techniques used in spotting, extracting, and analyzing business data, such as sales […]
The missed opportunity of the ODP (On Device Portal) has been discussed on this weblog several times. The fact it took Apple to show the industry how to get it right is an embarrassment. Apple’s iPhone has redefined the relationships in the mobile ecosystem. Essentially they have become the service provider and the operator a […]