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January 2011
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The Insider -
Forget all about net neutrality, we’ve now seen the first real example of ‘net neutering’ with Egypt flicking the ‘kill switch’ on the internet . How terrible, how frightening, how undemocratic, how primitive in this day and age - I hear you ask? Hang on a minute, isn’t that what President Obama was on about last year. Wasn't it proposed he had the same rights in times of national emergency? Even though the details are still sketchy around the Egyptian action... -
The biggest fear of one new LTE operator is that the industry will fall into the same trap as with 3G - devaluing the new service from day one. Mark Liversidge, CMO of Hong Kong’s CSL, was one of the keynote speakers at the TM Forum's Management World Asia event in Singapore earlier this week and his words may resonate closely with others embarking on the LTE route. Liversidge said that very often we start at the position of having this bright, shiny new technology and then struggle to... -
The Insider had almost given up hope that someone was going take a stand against the FCC’s Net Neutrality rules that were announced purposefully in the midst of the holiday season. It took a while but Verizon has made the first move in challenging what was starting to look like a ‘fait accompli’. In fact, Verizon has gone all out and filed a suit in a federal appeals court in Washington D.C. seeking to overturn the rules arguing that the the FCC doesn’t have the authority... -
Are we seeing the beginning of a fightback from ISPs tired of carrying heavy traffic loads from ‘over-the-top’ freeloaders, or is it just a case of ‘smoke and mirrors’. The first volley came from Comcast aimed at Level 3, one of the largest Internet backbones in the world, demanding a fee from them to deliver Internet video to Comcast subscribers. Now it appears France Telecom ISP, Orange, has caught on wanting to charge file-sharing site, Megaupload, for delivering bandwidth... -
‘The Insider’ is considering taking up a new career as a fortune-teller. He may not have predicted the horrendous floods sweeping through Queensland in Australia, but his words on preparedness were certainly timely. “Maybe it’s time to review the massive spend on marketing activities and re-allocate some monies to enterprise risk management, disaster recovery and business continuity exercises. How many CSPs simply pay lip-service to those critically important sectors of their... -
The wrath of a government scorned seems to show no signs of abating as the U.S. launches what is tantamount to a witch-hunt in the ongoing WikiLeaks saga. Reports emanating from the NY Times , BBC and CNN claim the U.S. government has even subpoenaed Twitter in a bid to support an ongoing criminal investigation into whether WikiLeaks and people involved or connected to WikiLeaks, including an Icelandic member of parliament, broke the law. The order asks specifically for names of those attached to... -
Following hot on the heels of one of England’s greatest sporting triumphs, beating Australia on its home turf in cricket, is good old British Telecom thumbing its nose at those other ex-colonials, the Americans, and the net neutrality bunkum. In the best spirit of capitalism and free-trade, BT Wholesale has devised a specialized content delivery network that it will be offering to ISPs to enable uninterrupted delivery of bandwidth-hungry applications like video. Named Content Connect, the service... -
Mobile phones are truly amazing devices and the ways they are being used, well, nothing short of astounding. Who would have thought that they could be used to divorce one’s wife? Yes, I know what you’re thinking, your partner pays more attention to their iPhone or BlackBerry than you - grounds for divorce? Maybe you happen to spot some personal SMS on your partner's device, but they are not from you - more grounds for divorce? Worst of all, you find compromising photos of your partner...
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