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 […]
This year’s IMS World Forum is shaping up to be an excellent event, with a solid focus on WebRTC (Web Real Time Communications). At last year’s event I asked the opening panel about the impact of WebRTC on their plans to a muted response. And this year there is a pre-conference WebRTC Workshop on the […]
<UPDATE: At the request of a client I will be attending MWC in 2013, so see you there 🙂 If it was on my own company’s dollar then this article still stands. Also I just booked the flight, the price was good and seats were left, which was a little surprising.> Usually by this time […]
This year I brought my wife and 2-year-old son to Barcelona; we arrived on the Thursday before MWC (Mobile World Congress). Barcelona is great for small children with lots of playgrounds, some with crèches that bring out their toys to play with making it great fun. The restaurants go the extra mile in making the […]
With a new child at home I’ve been limiting travel, well trying to, so this year only the two most important conferences in my calendar are attended: Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Feb and Broadband World Forum (BBWF) in October. Informa have taken over BBWF so their massive conference machine, and in particular Gavin Whitechurch, […]