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June 2008 - Telco 2.0
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In Today’s Issue : WiFi in your car; connectivity included with O2UK iPhones; Nokia buys Symbian and gives it away; LiPS and LiMo; OpenMoko ships; Sony Ericsson struggling; Reding terminates 70% of termination fees; France Telecom hits the silk from the Telia deal; T-Mobile USA launches femtoVoIP; FemtoForum+NGMN=sense; where is the network API ? probably not in the IMS ; Blyk expands; FISA fight goes on; T-Mobile UK goes down; Vodafone to buy Ghana Telecom? Just what I always wanted — WiFi in the...
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We were asked to present on a panel at the private marketing innovation conference of a UK mobile carrier last week. The subject was the “Need for Speed”: what are the real drivers for network capacity and speed, and thus where should an operator focus its investments? Since our answers are generic to all mobile carriers, we thought we’d share them with you here. The format was five questions, addressed by all the speakers: What user behaviour is driving the demand? Which access technologies to invest...
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Following the popular article last week on FTTH prospects for the UK , Benoit Felton of Fibrevolution sent us some excellent material looking at the issues from a more international perspective. He says: In April this year I attended a very interesting conference in Stavänger, Norway, organised by the OECD on Next Generation Access Networks where I conducted a number of interviews with experts. The end result is two podcasts: The Stavänger Show - Part One: FTTH Policy focuses on the challenges raised...
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In Today’s Issue : 60 years of computing - our Mancunian future; 25 years of DNS, 10 years of a post-Jon Postel world; securing the root DNS ; Yahoo! loses clue to the wider environment; Apple’s outrageous iPhone margins; iPhone-RAZR culture shock; 1st VZ ODI gadgets; Moto tries to slim itself fat; Huawei handsets up for grabs; Telefonica leads misguided acquisition rush into China; Chinese bank buys Poland; first WiMAX.eu; Sprint XOHM goes live in September; Sprint offers enterprise e-mail; Nokia...
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So, with two major US carriers rolling out fibre to the home, a string of European cities doing the municipal-fibre thing, Iliad fibreing-up their own network in France, and Japan and Korea having long started wiring up whole apartment buildings, how soon will the UK get cracking? Telco 2.0 went to the Broadband Stakeholder Group’s conference to find out. Background to the issue The broadband incentive problem tells us how there’s little incentive for network owners to invest in networks when they...
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Amygdalin may sound like a Star Wars character, but in fact it’s a precursor to cyanide found in apple pips. And your daily Gala, Fuji, or Cox’s Orange Pippin isn’t the only fruity offering with a potentially harmful ingredient inside. The Apple iPhone might just look to some like a dodgy cameraphone that you can’t operate one-handed. But lurking under those curvy plastic corners lies an assault on the pulsating the heart of the mobile operator. Bypassing operator charges for services has been a...
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In Today’s Issue : Mobile spam horror looms; Gyahoo will eat your ad business anyway; Nokia starts its own ad platform; open-source unicomms for prison warders shames telco engineers; roaming in Africa; Reding on the rampage again; Swedish military intervention; MTN -Reliance sporked by brothers’ brawl; Clearwire’s world domination plan; Nortel ducks for LTE ; Sprint-powered jukebox; the end of WAP ; Carphone in trouble; AT&T caps hogs; BT fibre - not all it’s cracked up to be; when number portability...
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Last month, Qualcomm purchased at auction 40MHz of spectrum (1452-1492 MHz, known as ‘The L-Band’ ) for £8.3m ($16m). Since then there has much speculation about Qualcomm’s motives and the services that they will deploy, focussing upon Mobile TV. The answer tells us a lot about how new platforms and intermediaries emerge, and could hold some keys to the future of a far wider set of services than just television content. Qualcomm has a long track record of both buying spectrum and vendor financing...
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This is the first of a series of articles celebrating two years of Telco 2.0 blogging, and focused on our favourite hot topic, two-sided markets . In this first article we’ll be going into some depth exploring what two-sided markets are. (For a shorter high-level introduction, look here ). Later, we’ll explore why they matter, and how these ideas can be applied to the telecoms industry. By opening up their platform we believe there is about a $350bn/year opportunity in a decade’s time, as telcos...
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A key Telco 2.0 theme is getting more value out of customer data . Nearly all of that data remains locked up inside the telco, with a few side businesses around paper and online directories. Could operators suffer from an ‘over the top’ problem with their data assets in addition to the network? We’ve found an interesting example. One of the more interesting start-ups we’ve seen pass by our eyes is Skydeck . It’s a concept we’ve pondered over a beer or two in the past. Users are investing some of...
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