October 2009 - Martin Creaner's Blog

Interesting to see how well the LTE segment is holding up under the pressure of a global recession. I blogged a few months back about the rollout plans for LTE , and how a lot of the major operators are committing to major rollouts in the second half of 2010. However, at this stage I was expecting to hear a few of them slipping their plans back by 6 months or so. But that doesn’t seem to be happening. A recent Infonetics report states that fourteen operators have committed to LTE rollouts next year...

With interest in cloud computing at an all-time high, we have to wonder if this concept is truly revolutionary or simply the logical next step of trends that started decades ago. As someone who’s been in the industry for awhile, I can remember a time when even a technology-dependent institution like NASA simply didn’t have the processing power it required for all the complex calculations needed for the early days of the U.S. space program. It had to borrow this processing power from local universities...

Making money from content is difficult. One of the other hats I wear is being non-exec Chairman of one of the leading mobile games and apps store service providers - Selatra Limited ( www.selatra.com ) . In this capacity I have front seat visibility of the some of the challenges on the coal-face of making money out of content. Questions are often raised as to why Apple can make such a success from their app store, while every other mobile operator is struggling to make content pay. But to me it is...