Last year I heard many people talking very positively about a new conference, eComm (Emerging Communications Conference), last year attracted 300 people and 80 speakers from 15 countries; this year the number increased to 350, which given the current environment is a remarkable achievement. eComm brings together people leading the change in telecoms from both […]
Yesterday (3rd Feb) I gave a presentation at the SCTE (Society of Cable Telecommunication Engineers) Canadian Summit in Toronto on “Enabling the Multi-Screen Experience: Case Studies in Third Party Multi-Screen Services.” In it I reviewed the need for change in how operators create new services, explained the role of Open Innovation, and used a simple […]
Last year I heard many people (Thomas Howe, Martin Geddes, and Brough Turner to name just a few) talking very positively about a new conference, eComm (Emerging Communications Conference), it attracted 300 people and 80 speakers from 15 countries. eComm brings together people leading the change in telecoms from both inside the industry and out. […]
Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Yahoo! are continuously offering new services for customers to experience, then refining those services within weeks/months based upon customer feedback. The typical operator product development process is usually: an opportunity is identified, market research is performed, a project is created once budget can be found, the new product development process runs […]
I’ve know Liew Kong Nam for many years, since he was in the Singaporean start-up Line Fusion (that name and website is lost to the mists of time), which was bought by Dilithium Networks. His new venture, Nano Equipment (I’ll use the acronym NE as the name is a legacy issue), is a mobile video […]
On Monday the 1st of December, to relatively little fanfare, 3 Australia announced the launched their Telco API based upon the OCSG (Oracle’s Communication Services Gatekeeper). 3 yet again demonstrates its innovation leadership. The 3API is initially focused upon charging, enabling customers to purchase services from third party providers (e.g. Nokia N-Gage games) and use […]
This article provides a summary of Day Two of Informa’s SDP Asia conference in Singapore on the 27th November. Day One summary is covered in this article. Overall Summary Another day dominated by operator SDP presentations, demonstrating the maturity of content based SDPs, some of the challenges in evolving those SDPs, and the emergence of […]
This article provides a brief summary on Day One of Informa’s SDP Asia conference in Singapore on the 26th November. A preview of the conference was given in this article. With 70 registered attendees and about 55 attendees in the room on Day One, APAC is bucking the trend in conference attendance by showing solid […]
At the end of November I’ll be attending Informa’s SDP Asia conference in Singapore. I’ll be running a post-conference workshop on the 28th November, and a couple of sessions through the conference (26-27 November). Outlines of the sessions are shown below, and the conference brochure can be downloaded here. The purpose of this article is […]
The purpose of this article is to provide a summary of my findings from Informa’s IMS/SDP (IP Multimedia Subsystem) North America conference that ran from the 5-7 November in Dallas TX; I gave a preview of the event in this article. I’ve also put a few slides together to give a flavor of the conference […]