The purpose of this CXTech Week 16 2023 newsletter is to highlight, with commentary, some of the news stories in CXTech this week. What is CXTech? The C stands for Connectivity, Communications, Collaboration, Conversation, Customer; X for Experience because that’s what matters; and Tech because the focus is enablers. You can sign up here to receive the CXTech News […]
Back in September 2012 I published this report “TV Delivery Evolution: Hybrid TV, Over The Top (Internet) TV and TV Everywhere (Multi-Screen) TV. Status Report and Projections 2012-2017.” A friend recently asked if they could buy the report, so I reread the material, and I was surprised at how far we have moved in the […]
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 […]
Home by 9PM on Saturday from the family vacation and back on a plane at 9AM Sunday for the flight to Las Vegas. On the napkin on the United flight to CES (Consumer Electronics Show) it said “Taking high tech to new altitudes” which was in stark contrast to the United plane (or product as […]
A complete rewrite of the TV Delivery Evolution Report is now available, its now titled: “TV Delivery Evolution: Hybrid TV, Over The Top (Internet) TV and TV Everywhere (Multi-Screen) TV. Status Report and Projections 2012-2017.” The table of contents, figures and introduction are available to download here and shown at the bottom of this article. […]
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 […]
With the much anticipated launch of Google TV next month on Sony and Logitech devices, its getting crowded in the OTT (Over The Top) TV market. With CE (Consumer Electronics) manufacturers, middleware vendors, operators, web-based service providers, content owners, and a vast array of start-ups rushing to confuse the customer. I covered this in an […]
Hybrid TV is not new; it’s been within the industry’s lexicon for many years, the transition should not be a surprise. However, for many executives the shift to hybrid TV has been a quiet revolution. Especially given two of the telco industry’s most successful TV deployments, Verizon FiOS (2.9M customers in Q4 2009) and Orange […]
There are 4 main application store provider categories: Operating System: Google Android, Microsoft Mobile Consumer Electronics: Apple, Nokia (Ovi), RIM, Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft Xbox Mobile Storefronts: Getjar, Handango, and in the future Amazon (they’ve already started with Kindle) Operator: Vodafone (Live), OrangeWorld, O2 Active Though the term app store is not entirely correct, as some […]
Operators are stranded by a 25 year old operating system, their IN platform. Imagine a web application developer trying to compete in today’s market using Windows 1 as its operating system! Being stranded in the mid 1980s creates a surreal situation. Unfortunately for operators their customers are living in 2009, and their expectations of service […]