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 […]
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 IMS World Forum was a packed event, with 250+ attendees, up over 20% compared to last year. At first sight it’s fair to ask, why is a conference required on IMS, isn’t it old-hat? That’s just the point, IMS is becoming main stream so the question is not about whether or not to deploy, […]
Given all the activity in the technology industry: Sun disappearing into Oracle (aka The Borg); HP’s ex-CEO’s escapades with an actress (normally in the joke its a bishop) and then joining The Borg; Microsoft finally getting its PC OS right and making Office 2010 a pleasure to use; Twitter, Facebook and other’s crazy valuations; Wikileaks; […]
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 […]
We’re seeing lots of wishful thinking in the industry around being able to monetize QoS (Quality of Service) for consumer services. In part its coming from the current LTE (Long Term Evolution) sales push, which has an overly complex set of QoS capabilities given the limitations of the air interface. As well as the summer […]
This old weblog article from 2008 discusses the cost structure of a typical mobile operator, and I show below the structure graphically. The key figure is transport costs (backhaul) are roughly 7% of total costs back in 2008. Some operators have seen that jump to over 15%-20% of total costs in under 2 years. The […]
North America is an exception in the mobile broadband (MBB) market amongst developed nations. At the end of Q1 2009 there were 17.3 million data-only HSPA subscriptions in Europe, 14% of all broadband connections are now mobile and mobile is growing at 5 times the rate of fixed broadband. Depending on how you calculate it, […]
The purpose of this article is to review some of the significant developments and trends in the telecom industry through 2008, and look forward into next year on what developments and trends may start to unfold. Open Innovation, Telco API and SDP. A theme of this weblog throughout the year has been Open Innovation, the […]
In my journeys around APAC (Asia Pacific region) over the past few months, a common theme is the explosion of mobile broadband (MBB), as reported in previous articles in this weblog such as Mobile Broadband Explosion, The Internet’s Gone Video, and Mobile and DSL Broadband Compared. However, the impact of that explosion on the operator […]