George has recently joined Tropo as VP Marketing. He brings a wealth of marketing and product management experience from BSkyB, his own start-up Spontly, Velti, T-Mobile and Ericsson. One of his first decisions on the job was sponsoring TADS (Telecom Application Developer Summit). I asked George some questions around TADS, I’m doing this with all […]
In the effective duopoly of IMS core supply between Ericsson and Huawei, it’s fair to ask, “IMS. What choice do you have?” Talk to many people in Telecoms not directly working on IMS and they’ll simply right it off as dead. For a dead technology, the conference was very much alive, the busiest I’ve ever […]
I’ve been having fun over the past couple of weeks putting the pre-conference workshop together for the Policy Control and Data Pricing Conference, entitled “Policy Control and Charging Workshop: An Independent and Quantified Review.” Its been an interesting extercise to review what was predicted through 2012 and what actually happened. Global mobile data traffic grew […]
The overall feel of MWC (Mobile World Congress) this year is upbeat. More people attending, up from 67k to 72k. The money being spent on LTE (Long Term Evolution) is starting to percolate through the industry, and later this year LTE-A (Advanced) as Telstra and several other operators announced. In these articles from 2008 and […]
In this end of year article I’ll review 2012 and look at a few of the things coming up in 2013. 2012 has been an eventful year, we tend to miss how eventful as we’re busy working and raising our families (a life-long commitment!). The year opened with some operators finally admitting revenues are in […]
ALU (Alcatel Lucent) has done something interesting in the API Gateway space with their latest announcement. They’ve open sourced their API Management platform, it’s called apiGrove. So rather than offering freemium access to an API gateway, they’ve taken the route of allowing developers to use apiGrove and do it themselves. ALU have done open source […]
Asked recently if there was an update of the old SDP landscape weblog entry, I was shocked at how out of date it had become. The categories needed updating, lots of companies had come and gone. The 2012 SDP landscape can be downloaded here, and is also shown at the end of this entry, though […]
This report provides an extensive update to the original IMS Status Report written in 2009, it compares and contrasts the 2009 and 2012 results to understand how the industry has changed. It also provides an update on the status of IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) based on a market survey performed from November 2011 to January […]
Almost 3 years ago an article in this weblog discussed the relatively small difference in performance between HSPA+ and LTE. Its perplexing to see GSM operators wasting time and money on LTE, when HSPA+ is good enough. Especially when the speed difference between LTE and HSPA+ can be less than a factor of 2. Latency […]
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 […]