Its 2015, in case you didn’t notice š Ā IMS is still not pervasive, tier 2 telcos continue to buy NEW soft-switches in preference to IMS as its too expensive / complex, and RCS is nowhere as discussed in this weblogĀ –Ā a big thank you to all the contributors in the comments. Ā VoLTE is making slow, painful […]
RCS (Rich Communication Suite) has failed, we need an RCS reset, according to Dean Bubley its been a Zombie Technology for several years. My conversations with telcos over the past year on RCS have recurrent themes of it being too expensive, too complex, increasingly detached from the market reality, and most importantly has lost the […]
LTEAsia remains one of the best, if not the best event, to meet with most of the regionās CxOs. Ā Its not too big, and not too small. Numbers appeared slightly down on 2 years ago when I last attended, but the quality of attendees remains as high. I was chairing the Signaling Focus day, the […]
At the end of this weblog is an update with a review of some of the slides presented. The SDP Global Summit, renamed Service Delivery Innovation Summit (#SDIS), reached its 10th year. The name change was to reflect the broader scope of service innovation beyond the nebulous and to some extent discredited term SDP, so […]
The Next Generation Service PlatformsĀ (NGSP) event brings together 3 events: Telecom APIs, Web Real-Time Communications & Legacy Networks Evolution. Given the fragmentation of events it was nice to see an event bringing all the service platform issues under one roof. It ran in Munich, 10-11th June 2014, just after TADHack, it was an interesting contrast […]
It was the first time in 15 years I did not make the annual pilgrimage to MWC (Mobile World Congress).Ā Some of the reasons being: The BS and detachment from market reality of the GSMA which impacts MWC; The ridiculously large event which means Iām spending more time racing between meetings than in meetings; The […]
Its a question I’m asked often, “why are you holding TADS (Telecom Application Developer Summit) in Bangkok? Why not London or the Bay Area?” There are operational and strategic reasons, let me explain. Operationally At the same time as TADS in Bangkok is ITU Telecom World with 7000 of the telecoms industry attending at the […]
Previous weblogs and The Services Domain Report have discussed that the term SDP (Service Delivery Platform) is not appropriate.Ā Weāre talking about the Services Domain, see the diagram on the left.Ā A telco is composed of three ādomainsā the network domain, business and operational support systems (BOSS) domain, and the services domain.Ā The services domain […]
I’ve just read an article that really frustrated me.Ā Earlier this year at the Mobile World Congress the VP Marketing of CocaCola asked to use Joyn to reach their fans in one of the conference sessions.Ā Obviously Joyn did not adequately respond.Ā As CocaCola partnered with LINE, a unique blend of technology and pop culture […]
In the effective duopoly of IMS core supply between Ericsson and Huawei, itās fair to ask, āIMS.Ā What choice do you have?āĀ Talk to many people in Telecoms not directly working on IMS and theyāll simply right it off as dead.Ā For a dead technology, the conference was very much alive, the busiest Iāve ever […]