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August 2008 - Telco 2.0
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In Today’s Issue : Mobile gambling, music in Uganda; HSPA in Senegal; profits bashed at TA; freeee calls with Gizmo and Asterisk; Qtel keeps expanding; Hutchison wins on mobile broadband; P4P goes to SIGC omm; the talking dog browser; fake queues for iPhones; Forbes vs Forum Nokia - fight! fight! fight!; 3G iPhone vs Nokia N73 ; Android out, no Bluetooth or Gtalk; Nortel buys a world; Embarq kits out for more unicomms; BT wins termination fees lawsuit Think there’s still a telco-dominated high growth...
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It’s August; not much going on in the telcosphere. But the summer calm was shattered this week by some news — and, despite what you’d read elsewhere, it wasn’t the Ericsson/STMicro merger. We documented , with a little help from Plusnet and their happy wurlitzer Ellacoyas , just how heavily the BBC’ s iPlayer TV streaming service hit British ISP s. We also noted that even if the Beeb is sucking up a lot of bandwidth, it’s still not as big a deal as YouTube . Now, it looks like a second wave of iPlayer...
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In Today’s Issue : 3G iPhones don’t work; developers think Google is being evil; Sun open-sources more stuff; China Unicom inflates the Chinese 3G bubble; UK MNO s not so good at ISP ing; public doesn’t want Be CCTV after all; Orange UK gives away Asus EEE s, makes money; UK 2.5GHz is with the lawyers; Sprint’s new apps; Yahoo! FireEagle - your telco should do this; East Africa gets fibre Oh dear . The iPhone iHype is followed by a wave of customer dissatisfaction, with hordes of iPhone buyers complaining...
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The next Telco 2.0 event (4-5 November, London) is looking extremely strong. A big thank you to the sponsors and partners , and to the senior industry speakers (presenters and panellists) who are participating. The latter includes: Werner Vogels, CTO, Amazon.com ; Matt Bross, Group CTO, BT ; Will Hodgman, EVP, ComScore ; MungKi Woo, VP Payments and Contactless, France Telecom ; Timo Soiminem, CEO, Habbo Hotel ; Ben McOwen Wilson, COO, ITV ; Jonathan Dann, Executive Director, JP Morgan ; Steve Zimba...
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In Today’s Issue : Emergency! Emergency! Paging Dr. Q!; Sprint reduces Nextel value to zero, then hopes to sell it for nonzero price; Sprint exec’s unusual $1m bonus; DTAG’ s minor success; Moto reacts, joins a wave of LiMo gadget innovation; Apple zaps subversives; TD-SCDMA still doesn’t work, Huawei doesn’t want it; Chinese export industries perhaps not all they’re cracked up to be; re-re-wind to the first iPhone; Stingy download caps; AOL doom; new Nokia e-mail clients We told you Qualcomm was...
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In Today’s Issue : Moto splits again, makes actual money; CDMA - the edge of darkness; Nortel loses customer, 15% off shares, gains WiMAX obsession, 13% back on shares; most pointless network tech announcement?; the LTE voice problem; FCC KOs TCP RST DPI ; good news shock at FT, NTT ; Indian WiMAX speccy shocker; IKEA is a mobile operator; BT shareholders panic; free N810 s We’ve been following the crisis at Motorola for some time. The latest reorganisation is here. As well as selling off the failing...
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BT is at last moving on fibre . This is of interest because BT don’t own a cellular network, and their current residential copper access network is functionally separated — a very ‘Telco 2.0’ horizontal model. Is it possible to make money on new network builds without complete vertical integration and a monopoly on services? We dig into the numbers, and work out whether BT’ s shareholders should be concerned, or delighted. The details are more than a little sketchy at the moment, but we can be fairly...
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Billing within Telcos is often seen as a necessary evil — an overhead which frequently puts a brake on marketing visions of grand new services. Whereas, billing within the Telco 2.0 world is a great asset offering the capability of pricing nearly any transaction on any number of variables in real time in huge volumes. One approach to leveraging the telco billing asset is for the telco itself to provide billing services to an upstream partner, and quite often also to collect the money on their behalf...
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