Interesting innovations regularly come from island nations, for example the first 3G trial on the Isle of Man (where I grew up), from Singapore (Goto Camera), and most recently Sri Lanka with hSenid’s SDP in the Cloud, which was recently released and then deployed with Etisalat – Sri Lanka (formerly known as Celltel & then […]
There’s a great saying from Benjamin D’Israeli, ‘There’s lies, damned lies and statistics.’ To read the press, you’d think the trillion dollar telecommunications industry has been shaken to its core by Apple, a $33B consumer electronics company. In April 2009 the Apple app store achieved 1B ‘application’ downloads in 9 months, estimates vary on the […]
Secure User Plane Location (SUPL, pronounced supple) in essence enables applications to directly talk to the AGPS (Assisted Global Positioning System) unit on the mobile phone, without the need to pay the operator for a location dip. SUPL potentially side-lines the operator out of providing location information; without the need for a costly, complex and […]
Growth in LBS (Location Based Services) customers in North America (NA) last year (’05 to ’06) was roughly 150%, from 1.5M to 3.8M customers. In ’05 NA LBS revenue was roughly $450M with Sprint accounting for 70% of that revenue. Today Verizon and Sprint account for over 80% of operator LBS revenue in North America. […]