The Broadband World Forum is the main telecommunication industry’s event for broadband, drawing thousands of attendees from more than 100 operator companies and all the top broadband vendors. Keynotes at the event came from industry leaders such as Hans Vestberg, CEO Ericsson, Jean-Phillip Vanot, SVP of Innovation and Marketing for Orange, and Mika Vehviläinen, COO […]
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 […]
On May 19-20th in London will be the Mobile Operator Smart Pipes and Applications Conference. In attendance will be Steve Glagow, head of Orange Partner; Pieter Knook, head of Vodafone Internet Services, Sune Jakobsson, Telenor Open Services; James Parton, head of O2 Litmus; plus many more operators. As well as leaders from Nokia Ovi, Google, […]
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 […]
The purpose of this weblog entry is to firstly provide some specific real-world examples of how opening up the network (exposing the Telco API) can significantly improve existing applications and stimulate revenue. And secondly, look across some of the addressable markets the Telco API opens up. Mobile Communities airG’s mobile community has more than 30 […]
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 […]
The VPF has become a must-attend conference for anyone focused on service innovation in telecoms, with over 200 attendees this year, its certainly bucking the trend we’re seeing in conferences closing. This conference brings together a diverse mix of the telecom value chain: the IP Exchange and data center providers (Terremark, Telx, CRGWest); innovative applications […]
Survival is the mother of innovation. As customer behavior, rather than technology and competition, significantly impacts a service provider’s business, threatening the core revenues; the Telco API (Application Program Interface) is one method for operators to foster innovation on their networks. The Telco API enables operators to expose capabilities from their networks such as location, […]
The title is a bit of an oxymoron, how can a ‘start-up’ also be the largest inter-operator mobile community in the World? I’m being a little loose in the definition of ‘start-up’ as airG is really a profitable, established business. However, they still have the entrepreneurial zeal of a fresh-face start-up, and being secreted in […]