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  • FCC takes on Apple. Cause for celebration? Maybe not.

    I see that the FCC reads our blogs! A couple of weeks ago I bemoaned the naked commercial tactics of Apple blocking Google Voice from its App store ( What’s good for the goose is good for the gander ) and hey presto, the FCC pops up and calls in the case ( read more ). Perhaps this issue has opened the FCC’s eyes to that fact if we’re going to have a debate about an open mobile web; it’s not just the mobile service providers who need to be bound up with net neutrality legislation...
  • All Together Now

    It’s a little known fact that Verizon Wireless used the Beatles song All Together Now in commercials in 2002. So it was interesting to read the words of a current Verizon executive, Jeannie Diefenderfer, vice president of global network operations (NYSE: VZ) in Telephony Online this week talking about “coopetition” – or cooperation among competitors – as a key attribute for successful telecom operations. “ I believe in today’s world, and more so going forward...
  • The Fork in the Road

    Great article this week in the Economist asking what the world's bankers (did I spell that right?) could learn from the telecom melt-down of the early 2000's. One very interesting point it made was that shareholders at the time encouraged telecom companies to go 'back-to-basics and concentrate on their core business. But as we know, and the finance industry will find out, that's not such a great idea. Those markets for us (and them) are mature, low growth business in many cases. According...

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