October 2007 - Keith Willetts' Blog

  • The Skype's the limit

    This morning, the mobile operator 3 announced that it has launched a new handset that will allow users to make free calls over the Internet via Skype. This is the first time an operator has offered a mass market phone specifically enabled to make VoIP calls from a mobile handset. In my blog last week, I mused on Google doing something just like this and I still think they will. If they are smart, they will look at wrapping a Google phone/ browser client into handset operating systems rather than...
  • Apples and Googles

    Went to a very interesting conference last week in London. Called Telco 2.0, its aim was to look at the next generation positioning for the telecom industry and how it can prosper in the rapidly converging information, communications and entertainment worlds. This is a subject of hot interest inside TM Forum of course, because as we need to worry about how these services are created, delivered and paid for in a very different business and technical scenario than today. The problem is, nobody can...
  • May you live in interesting times

    “May you live in interesting times” is fast becoming an appropriate label for the telecom industry. I opened the London Financial Times today to see 2 headlines that seem to sum up the current plight of telecom - one was the news of Gary Forsee stepping down as CEO of Sprint for not bringing home the bacon in the Sprint / Nextel merger. The other headline was “Google Stock tops $600”. All sorts of conflicting messages flying around right now. When you are in the middle of one of a major inflexion...

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