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The Insider has been intrigued of late by the arguments and counter-arguments being bandied about regarding the virtues of fiber broadband network rollouts, especially the national variety. It appears that fiber is still the only commercially viable medium that has the ability to deliver the ever-increasing data requirements of internet and cloud usage in the foreseeable future. The European Union’s Digital Agenda commissioner, Neelie Kroes, believes so, and is doing all she can to ‘encourage’... -
Revenue is largely disconnected from the cost model. This was a recurring theme at this week’s Management World Middle East, held in Dubai. Mobile subscribers, in particular, had been encouraged to take up ‘all you can eat’ data plans in order to stimulate data traffic. Along comes the HSPA network with acceptable connection speeds, ‘dongles’ (USB modems), throw in the iPhone and bang, suddenly everyone wants to connect. The idea of being able to connect anywhere/anytime has caught on big with users... -
Heard the one about Britain’s Prime minister, Gordon Brown, beating up his staff? (allegedly!). Apparently he flew into a rage and grabbed some hapless official by the lapels when told that one of his equally hapless departments had lost a disc containing the personal information of 20 million British subjects. Poor Gordon – it’s very frustrating being responsible for something but having little actual visibility or control over it. So spare a though for the Telecom New Zealand CEO, Paul Reynolds... -
What would you do if your nearly new, state of the art GSM HSPA nationwide network stopped running? And what would you do if a week after you still had no idea what caused it? When officials of Telecom New Zealand’s XT network find out they may be in serious demand worldwide as disaster management consultants. That is if they work out what actually happened. This is not a scenario you hear about very often these days. Of course, networks fail during time of national disaster as we saw in Haiti recently...
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