We’ve all experienced it: you’re on a call, not moving around, just talking and the call drops, you check the signal level on the phone and it’s gone only to return to near full strength as you check. Does the operator even know what’s just happened? And then when you’re on the move, for example […]
With the launch of services such as FiOS from Verizon and U-Verse from AT&T, TV services in the US are finally entering the 21st Century, where widgets are now available on the TV such as local weather and traffic; it’s slowly becoming interactive. As anyone from the UK will attest Sky, a satellite TV service […]
I attended the FierceMarket’s IMS Executive Summit 2007 on the 19th and 20th September. The agenda included keynote presentations from Stuart Elby, Vice President, Network Architecture, Verizon; Mark Kaish, Vice President of Voice Development and Support, Cox Communications, and Narothum Saxena, Senior Director of Advanced Technology and Systems Planning, US Cellular. Learning from the event […]
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. […]