I recently completed a report for Mind Commerce entitled: “IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) Status Report: Emerging from the Trough of Disillusionment?” This report provides a valuable independent IMS status report that can help all in the industry have a clear view on its current status and the likely paths operators will take in the evolution […]
OpenCloud ran a great panel discussion event last week entitled “The Stranded Service Provider,” accompanied by a white paper that’s available on their website. On the panel were myself and: Tereza Borges, head of NSN’s next gen applications Keith Dyer, Editor of Mobile Europe John Logsdon, MD of NetDev Marlon Bowser, MD of HTK Kris […]
Telco IPTV market status / performance varies greatly by country, because of differences in broadband / PayTV penetration and the telco’s access to competitive national content. Generalizations are difficult to draw. Some countries have had rocky starts while others have been relatively trouble free. Free and France Telecom are both now over 1.5 million IPTV […]
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 […]
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 […]
Earlier this month I gave a weblog preview of Informa’s SDP (Service Delivery Platform) Asia conference in Singapore. I’ll also be attending Informa’s IMS/SDP (IP Multimedia Subsystem) North America conference (5-7 November) in Dallas TX. This weblog article provides a preview of the North American event. Bringing the discussion on IMS and SDP together is […]
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 […]
LTE (Long Term Evolution, also known as 4G) is entering the hype-cycle, and being rapidly pushed up to the ‘peak of inflated expectations’, just like IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem), PTT (Push To Talk), FMC (Fixed Mobile Convergence), and far too many other technologies to name here. So to cut through the hype and hopefully present […]