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November 2010
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You might recall some time back the ‘The Insider’ boldly suggested that one way CSPs could start generating revenues from internet traffic was to charge other ISPs or CSPs that were transiting their network, much like interconnect works in the voice world. A fascinating email has arrived in my mailbox from Dave Burstein, editor and publisher of dslprime.com . Dave is ‘the voice’ of internet news and what he had to report will send shivers down many CSP spines. According to... -
The Insider is not a great fan of over-regulation. After many years of deregulation in almost every national telecommunications market of the world it seems that governments believe we still need to be told what to do, constantly, almost like naughty school children. Regulation is one thing, but when governments step in and use CSPs as pawns in games of international oneupmanship, things may be going a little too far. I refer, of course, to the recent ‘decision’ by Sprint Nextel to block... -
It's been anything but smooth sailing for Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) but like the great ocean liners of years gone by, the A$43 billion behemoth keeps steaming forward through all weathers. It has managed to survive vigorous opposition from existing network operators and political attempts to steer it off course and was almost sunk by a recent election where it played a pivotal role in garnering the support of independents that floated the government through. Now it is attracting... -
The biggest challenge facing attendees at MW Americas this week has been which sessions to attend. Open discussion of topical subjects is the hallmark of TM Forum events and when our industry was clearly segmented into neat silos it was easy to stick to one stream and be happy. Today’s CSP is becoming anything but siloed and people often have as much interest in attending the Cloud Summit as the New Services and Business Models or Customer Experience summits. What a conundrum! However, this year... -
If you take the Americas as a whole you will find every disparate telecoms market conceivable within its boundaries. Developed, saturated markets dominate the north and emerging, highly competitive growth markets, the south. Despite this, there are common threads everywhere - managing costs, getting and keeping customers and, of course, making profits to keep stock holders happy. What differs is that each separate market in the broader Americas region has its own diverse means of addressing the above... -
A very interesting news story originating from Bloomberg about telco stock values snuck under the radar recently. In essence it stated that the search for higher yields is driving the biggest rally in seven years for telco stocks, as investors ignore some of the lowest profit forecasts in the MSCI World Index. Verizon Communications Inc. In the U.S. and PCCW Ltd. In Hong Kong are leading a 21 percent gain in MSCI’s gauge of 52 telecommunications companies since the end of the second quarter even... -
We are all hung up just now on ‘monetization.’ It will also be a major theme at our upcoming MW Americas event in Orlando. I receive countless press releases on the subject and occasionally I get excited about what I’m reading. Today was one of those days. A previously unknown entity called ConteXtream announced, rather aptly, that it had come out of stealth mode to discuss what it describes as its ‘Service Delivery Grid’ (SDG) technology, that offers network operators a radically new approach to...
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