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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...

Posted 19 hours, 49 minutes ago to Telco 2.0

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...

Posted 07-02-2008, 9:23 PM to Telco 2.0

Telco 2.0 Use Case: Trading Hub for the Transport Industry

Telco 2.0 readers will be well aware that we’re very keen on any application that uses telco capabilities to remove friction and inefficiency from the wider world of business - perhaps the fundamental insight in the...

Posted 07-02-2008, 3:31 PM to Telco 2.0

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...

Posted 07-02-2008, 12:32 PM to Telco 2.0

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;...

Posted 06-30-2008, 9:25 AM to Telco 2.0

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...

Posted 06-30-2008, 9:23 AM to Telco 2.0

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. ...

Posted 06-27-2008, 11:21 AM to The Device Blog

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...

Posted 06-26-2008, 11:57 AM to Telco 2.0

Coupling OSS and Probe-based Monitoring Mandatory for Customer-Centric View of Data Services

Michele Campriani Manager, Protocol Products Group Sunrise Telecom As a test / monitoring equipment vendor, we have a very unique perspective on emerging trends and challenges that operators are (and will be) facing. ...

Posted 06-25-2008, 8:38 AM to Board of Director's Blog

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;...

Posted 06-23-2008, 8:50 AM to Telco 2.0

Prospects for FTTH in Britain: considered slow

So, with two major US carriers rolling out fibre to the home, a string of European cities doing the municipal-fibre thing, Iliad fibreing-up their own network in France, and Japan and Korea having long started wiring...

Posted 06-19-2008, 9:50 AM to Telco 2.0

Apple’s iPhone: Beware of Poisonous Pips

Amygdalin may sound like a Star Wars character, but in fact it’s a precursor to cyanide found in apple pips. And your daily Gala, Fuji, or Cox’s Orange Pippin isn’t the only fruity offering with a potentially harmful...

Posted 06-17-2008, 7:30 AM to Telco 2.0

Ring! Ring! Hot News, 16th June 2008

In Today’s Issue: Mobile spam horror looms; Gyahoo will eat your ad business anyway; Nokia starts its own ad platform; open-source unicomms for prison warders shames telco engineers; roaming in Africa; Reding on the...

Posted 06-16-2008, 8:57 AM to Telco 2.0

Qualcomm’s Ambitious Mobile TV platform - Blueprint for Others?

Last month, Qualcomm purchased at auction 40MHz of spectrum (1452-1492 MHz, known as ‘The L-Band’) for £8.3m ($16m). Since then there has much speculation about Qualcomm’s motives and the services that they will deploy,...

Posted 06-16-2008, 7:32 AM to Telco 2.0

Two-sided markets: what are they?

This is the first of a series of articles celebrating two years of Telco 2.0 blogging, and focused on our favourite hot topic, two-sided markets. In this first article we’ll be going into some depth exploring what two-sided...

Posted 06-15-2008, 9:00 AM to Telco 2.0

Skydeck: Robin Hood of customer data

A key Telco 2.0 theme is getting more value out of customer data. Nearly all of that data remains locked up inside the telco, with a few side businesses around paper and online directories. Could operators suffer from...

Posted 06-12-2008, 3:54 PM to Telco 2.0

Video - Achilles heel of the mobile ISP

There has been an ongoing online and offline debate recently about whether video is going to create some kind of “exaflood” of data with bad consequences for the telecoms industry. We’ve got a different point of view...

Posted 06-11-2008, 4:56 PM to Telco 2.0

Ring! Ring! Hot News, 9th June 2008

In Today’s Issue: FTel/Teliasonera nightmare off; Singtel/Indosat off; visual voicemail for all; iPhones to be 50% subsidised; David Isenberg, underworld spy; DTAG, spy; VZW buys Alltel; secret Phorm docs; Android-Access...

Posted 06-09-2008, 9:08 AM to Telco 2.0

Jaw Jaw, Not War, War

The decision this week by BT to charge for otherwise free BBC content on its IPTV service highlights the sharp contrast between business models for delivering content. Content owners increasingly cut out (or not even consider) the distributor and adopt...

Posted 06-08-2008, 11:50 PM to Keith Willetts' Blog

Getting Better All The Time

I find with every passing year, I like the industry more.That may “fly in the face” of what should be the norm to a sometimes overworked and frequently stressed communications professional, but I stand by those words. As of late, I have been almost giddy...

Posted 06-05-2008, 7:18 AM to The Cable Blog

Oi Paggo: A Disruptive Brasileiro Credit Play

Oi is a Brasilian GSM operator with over 1m customers using their Paggo service, which is a direct competitor to credit card networks such as Visa & Mastercard. It is the perfect example of an operator moving...

Posted 06-05-2008, 6:54 AM to Telco 2.0

Use Case: Optimising Rolls-Royce’s ‘Product-Service’ business

This is a ‘Use Case’ taken from our 2-Sided Business Models report, which is out now (10% discount to readers of this blog). We have chosen Rolls-Royce as an example of both the type of target business model (mixing...

Posted 06-04-2008, 6:57 AM to Telco 2.0

Telco 2.0 Case Study: Telenor CPA

Lars Godell, Telenor’s VP of Group Strategy, is one of the earliest Telco 2.0 thinkers — his work on this goes right back to his Forrester Research paper on The Rebirth of European Telecoms in 2001. So it should come...

Posted 06-03-2008, 7:13 AM to Telco 2.0

Broadband Stakeholders Group Event, London, 9th June 2008

The UK’s Broadband Stakeholder Group is having an event in London next Monday, and it looks like it could get quite Telco 2.0. They’re going to launch two new research reports, one on the ‘social and economic value of next-generation broadband’,...

Posted 06-03-2008, 6:15 AM to Telco 2.0

Vodafone: Too much da, not enough vo and fone?

As there’s a change in leadership occurring at Vodafone, it’s a good time to reflect on the direction of the large convoy of opcos and investments being led by the good ship Newbury. Arun Sarin has stepped out of...

Posted 06-02-2008, 9:16 AM to Telco 2.0