September 2008 - Telco 2.0

In Today’s Issue : Symbian bashes mobile Linux; LiMo counterbashes; Cisco buys Jabber, threatens protocol switch; new Nokia E-series; iTrojan; building stuff for the BlackBerry; data roaming price war in Asia; Reding insists on open access to NGN s; Nortel exits optical Ethernet; EU telecoms packet in trouble; Vodafone+Vodacom; RIP Mobilink CFO Department of “He would say that, wouldn’t he?” : Symbian claims there’s no hope for Linux on mobile devices, LiMo disagrees, and Google is accused of deliberately...

We often talk about disruptive technology, emergent phenomena, and the collapse of old business models and power relationships. In our forthcoming Online Video Distribution report , that’s precisely what we’re going to be doing. Perhaps we should look at some of the ways the old established forces — Hollywood, TV networks, cable MSO s — are trying to respond? Because although their problems are serious, some of their newer ideas are far from weak. We studied two in detail as part of the project:...

Today we launch a new survey , part of a major investigation into new business models for internet video distribution (kindly supported by the TM Forum, TelecomTV and the Mobile Entertainment Forum. ) By ‘internet video distribution’ we mean: any video material (movies, TV, infotainment, sports, UCG ) distributed via internet technologies (IPTV, web streaming or P2P downloading) over any bearer (fixed or mobile broadband networks) to any device (PC, TV, handheld). We exclude traditional broadcasting...