I’m asked this question surprisingly often, “Alan, what is it that you do?” My stock answer is, “I wander the world helping people.” Which generally results in a wry smile from those who know me; else a questioning or annoyed look from someone who was expecting a straightforward answer to a straightforward question. When I […]
LTEAsia remains one of the best, if not the best event, to meet with most of the region’s CxOs. Its not too big, and not too small. Numbers appeared slightly down on 2 years ago when I last attended, but the quality of attendees remains as high. I was chairing the Signaling Focus day, the […]
At the end of this weblog is an update with a review of some of the slides presented. The SDP Global Summit, renamed Service Delivery Innovation Summit (#SDIS), reached its 10th year. The name change was to reflect the broader scope of service innovation beyond the nebulous and to some extent discredited term SDP, so […]
TADHack (Telecom Application Developer Hackathon) is a global event, created and driven by the grassroots of the industry to help developers discover the latest ways to add communications to their application, services and business processes. And compete for $20k in prize money. It is unique because it brings together all relevant telecom application development tools […]
Better late than never, I’ve finally got around to the BBWF (Broadband World Forum) summary. No 2014 trends weblog this year, its simply become too passé. I’ll likely do something in the summer on trends. BBWF is a great litmus test across the whole of the telecom industry. This year the theme that hit me […]
In the effective duopoly of IMS core supply between Ericsson and Huawei, it’s fair to ask, “IMS. What choice do you have?” Talk to many people in Telecoms not directly working on IMS and they’ll simply right it off as dead. For a dead technology, the conference was very much alive, the busiest I’ve ever […]
Apologies for typos and lack of links in this article, Hurricane Sandy took out our power and broadband, so I’m on a congested 3G network with lots of time-outs limiting online editing. BBWF (Broadband World Forum) continues to be a ‘sweet spot’ conference, not as big as MWC (Mobile World Congress) where prices are silly […]