The Policy Control and Real-Time Charging Conference ran from the 24th-26th April 2012 at the Krasnapolsky Hotel, Amsterdam. The conference included operator presentations / case studies from Swisscom, Reliance, Turkcell, Vodafone, KPN, and Orange. I ran a post-conference workshop on the 26th April entitled “Policy Control and Charging Workshop: An Independent and Quantified Review,” the […]
BlueVia is Telefonica’s API program where developers get paid to use Telefonica’s APIs. We’ve seen a number of case studies promoted within a few months of its launch, see slideshows at the end of this article. Developers are making money through using BlueVia’s APIs. BlueVia has announced a partnership with Microsoft to create the BlueVia […]
MWC 2011 was packed, they need two walking lanes in each direction, else allow the use of cattle prods to move people along who insist on doing the “smartphone prayer” (standing still, head bowed, staring at a screen) in the middle of doorways and walkways; it’s becoming a social problem. There was no one theme […]
Unified communications is not new, its been around for nearly a decade. My start-up Teltier 10 years ago was promoting services such as missed call summary, instant conferencing and messaging, as well as unified communications (UC). There’s nothing like being painfully too early to market 🙂 Unified communications is the integration of real-time communication services […]
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; […]
Over the past few years I’ve interviewed hundreds of operators and suppliers in the TV distribution industry on deployment experiences, market requirements, competitive landscape, and technology trends. In the document below I bring a sample of some of my work in this space examining the evolution of Hybrid and Over the Top TV. If you’d […]
We’ve seen a rash of announcements from operators such as Telefonica and Vodafone (and telecom suppliers for that matter) on their eHealth offers. So what brought on this sudden interest? Operators have been providing communication services to the Health sector for many years, what’s different? Firstly, lets start with some definitions, as always without clarity […]
The missed opportunity of the ODP (On Device Portal) has been discussed on this weblog several times. The fact it took Apple to show the industry how to get it right is an embarrassment. Apple’s iPhone has redefined the relationships in the mobile ecosystem. Essentially they have become the service provider and the operator a […]
I show below a sample of a taxonomy of the operators’ developer communities across consumer applications (e.g. widgets), consumer content (music, ring-tones, caller ring back tones, wallpaper), enterprise applications (e.g. field force automation tools) and enterprise IT (that is having enterprise IT departments build apps for their employees only). As discussed in the “Emerging App […]
Nokia recently announced its to ditch Symbian software for its high-end smartphones, instead using MeeGo that was announced at Mobile World Congress this year. The N-series has been Nokia’s crown jewel for years and dominated the smartphone space before the arrival of Apple’s iPhone (be-careful how you hold it) and HTC’s Android-based devices. “Going forward, […]