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Ring! Ring! Hot News, 4th August 2008
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...
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BT fibre roll-out: Do the numbers add up?
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...
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How Billing can become a Revenue Generator
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...
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New Telco 2.0™ Manifesto - Second Edition Preview
The
current telecoms business model is approaching its ‘end of life’.
Today, we’re previewing here on our blog an updated Telco 2.0™ Manifesto
which we hope will provide a cogent reference point for creating a
vibrant...
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Guest post: Why Ribbit is worth $105m to BT
We’ve
long believed that the real reason you build an open telco platform is
to facilitate interactions between merchants and users, not to enable a
supply chain of media or entertainment products. The telco industry...
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Case Study: Qualcomm digs itself into a (very good) hole
Qualcomm, best known for owning a lot
of patents on cellular radio tech, has an interesting new product out —
and it involves a large yellow backhoe loader. Not quite what you’d
expect! But a regular theme in Telco 2.0 is that the real value for...
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Ring! Ring! Hot News, 28th July 2008
In Today’s Issue: All the Vodafone that’s fit to print; just what’s in that tall glass of mobile data?; the Spanish builder menace; AT&T discovers
principled objection to mergers, porcine aviator sighted; Sprint...
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Big Cheese Interview: Tony Rallo, CTO, Televisa
Telco 2.0 is
running a series of depth interviews with senior people in the
Telco-Media-Tech sector. To start with, to support our summer research
programme on new Content Distribution business models, we caught up...
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Ring! Ring! Hot News, 14th July 2008
In Today’s Issue: Some phone or other launched; “ZZZPhone” debunked; Verizon ODI dip
stick; Launchcast “Dashboard” open to hackers, in a good way; Verizon -
dangerously interesting?; Sprint pushes push-to-talk; iPhone...
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Two-sided markets: why do they matter?
In a previous article
we provided an introduction to what we believe is the template for
future growth in telecoms: two-sided markets. Having got the basic
facts laid out, now we can take a closer look at some of the...
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Ring! Ring! Hot News, 7th July 2008
In Today’s Issue: OFCOM moves towards BT’s
line on fibre; £31,000 phone bill; GTalk for mobile, where’s the talk?;
iPhone bank run; pity about the OS security patches, though;
cross-platform widgets; Files On Ovi;...
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Symbian goes open — or does it?
The
big news in mobile this week is that Nokia has bought Symbian, the
mobile operating system provider, so that it can give it away. In the first article
on this news we looked at the deal from the view of the shareholders...
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GupShup — ad-funded mobile services done right
In our Voice & Messaging 2.0 Report we listed over 70 new services we’d come across in our travels. One that’s come to our notice since publication is SMS GupShup.
Whilst there were many ‘me too’ Internet messaging...
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Symbian — Its Role in the Mobile Jigsaw
The
recent purchase of Symbian by Nokia highlights the tensions around
running a consortium-owned platform business. Obviously, Nokia believes
that making the software royalty-free and open source is the key to
future...
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Ring! Ring! Hot News, 30th June 2008
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;...
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Are faster mobile networks worth the effort?
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...
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Coming together to learn and collaborate
The Device Management Summit held in the heart of the Silicon Valley this week was a success, not only as a meeting of minds, but as an opportunity to explore new related technologies. A significant new step forward was also taken by the TM Forum. ...
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Next Generation Access Networks - International Perspective
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...
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Ring! Ring! Hot News, 23rd June 2008
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;...
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