Better late than never, I’ve finally got around to the BBWF (Broadband World Forum) summary. No 2014 trends weblog this year, its simply become too passé. I’ll likely do something in the summer on trends. BBWF is a great litmus test across the whole of the telecom industry. This year the theme that hit me […]
I’ll be chairing the first day of LTE Asia, which is much broader in scope than simply the air interface LTE (Long Term Evolution). Its focused on the evolution of an increasingly important service to customers, broadband internet access, and the networks that support that service. I purposefully did not insert the term mobile, as […]
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 entry shares some interesting data on the total global telecom revenue gathered in putting together a report I’m currently writing called: “The Services Domain. Market Status, Case Studies and Strategic Analysis.” The term Services Domain is used as the term SDP (Service Delivery Platform) is simply too ill-defined, abused by suppliers, and limits its […]
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 […]
At the Sigma Systems Evolve 2010 conference: deliver what’s next I gave a presentation, shown at the end of this article in the Accelerating Service Innovation session. This user conference focuses upon next-gen OSS and service fulfillment, bringing together progressive operators, thought leaders, strategists, and partner. The presentation splits into two sections: the first focuses […]
Overall view of the show: Better than ever to do business. The number of meetings, their quality, and the decisiveness of the people involved was up. MWC (Mobile World Congress) has returned to the days where the focus is business not hype. I hope they can keep this quality and focus in the years to […]
This article follows on from a previous article that reviewed LTE (Long Term Evolution, also know as 4G). Several people asked why I had not included a fuller discussion on the 4G core in that article. It is because LTE is an access technology; my focus of the article was on the access where there […]