Firstly, a big thank you to Jim Machi, Vince Puglia, Robin Carley and the rest of the Dialogic team for providing the meeting venue, great demos, coffee, cookies, soda and pizza 🙂  You made TADMeetupNJ a great event. We had another packed event with over 25 people, this time including some telcos: Tata Communications and […]
Telcos are faced with a tough choice by some of their vendors, “IMS, what choice do you have?” If telcos’ services do not work reliably they suffer through public humiliation. Remember when AT&T had an exclusive deal on iPhone in the US? Jon Stewart from the Daily Show said about owning an iPhone in NYC […]
Bandwidth.com provides Internet and telephony services primarily to business and government customers; for example, providing automated real-time pricing and procurement of business-class Internet connectivity. It also offers hosted VoIP, SIP trunking and bulk origination and termination services. Bandwidth.com manages the assignment of telephone numbers for Google Voice. And they offer Telecom APIs, which is the […]
I’ll be attending TVXperience World from July 16-17 in New York City. It’s nice to have a conference on my backdoor. The conference will examine how multiscreen is influencing the evolution of the TV User Experience. It’s an important issue for telcos, cablecos, broadcasters, content producers, OTT TV providers, as well as the many device […]
Verizon have just launched their Powerful Answers Award, its a global challenge to inspire and reward innovative solutions that address society’s biggest challenges in education, healthcare, and sustainability utilizing Verizon’s network, device and platform technologies. A total of $10 million in cash prizes will be awarded. You don’t need to be a geek that is […]
The Policy Control and Data Pricing Conference took place between the 16-17th April. Its a ‘who’s who’ of Policy Control and Charging (PCC), and provides a great litmus test on the state of industry. The discussions this year were quite frank with open disagreements; the worry of signalling storms appeared to have abated. Reviewing the […]
At the recent Broadband World Forum Asia 2013 conference, Korea Telecom’s EVP Tae-Yol Yoo predicted the collapse of voice and SMS services revenues in Korea: KT’s PSTN revenue has dropped from $5.4 billion in 2008 to $2.7 billion in 2012; Its mobile voice revenue fell from $6.2 billion in 2010 to $5.2 billion last year […]
Cloud Asia enters its third year co-organized with Singapore’s IDA (Infocomm Development Authority).  Cloud Asia 2013 runs from the 15-16 May 2013 in Singapore. An exciting change from last year’s event is entry to CloudAsia and the co-located Cloud Security Alliance Asian Congress is free for all enterprises, small and medium businesses, and operator users. Here are my […]
At the AT&T Developer Summit myaNUMBER gave an excellent presentation of their Telecom API-enabled service, there’s a sweet video demonstration at the end of this article. At the AT&T event I was fortunate to have Voxeo Labs introduce me to the founders of myaNUMBER, John Wantz, Chief Dad, and Kyle Schei, Ops Dad; and we […]
In this end of year article I’ll review 2012 and look at a few of the things coming up in 2013. 2012 has been an eventful year, we tend to miss how eventful as we’re busy working and raising our families (a life-long commitment!). The year opened with some operators finally admitting revenues are in […]