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Thoughts from LTE World Summit 4 Jul 2013 | 02:12 pm
We’re back from the recent LTE World Summit in Amsterdam, where we had the opportunity to get together with network operators and other market players and catch up on the latest trends and development...
Big-Picture Thinking and Big Data: Growing LTE Revenue in the Face of Shrinking Margins 19 Jun 2013 | 02:32 pm
The financial landscape for CSPs this year remains rocky. Profits are continuing to fall, with major players such as Telefonica, DTAG, and Vodafone reporting significant drops in revenue. Margins are ...
Analytics, Ford and OTT Threat 26 Apr 2013 | 02:18 am
As the dust settles on MWC 2013, I thought I’d share my Top 3 takeaways from the show. Firstly as an industry, we seem to have overcome our initial excitement around big data technology and are now mo...
Apple calling the shots on LTE performance? 17 Dec 2012 | 08:14 pm
According to a report in telecoms.com, Apple is refusing to offer its newest iPhone 5 as an LTE device unless operators can pass a number of stringent network performance tests set by the leading devi...
LTE: Unlocking the immediate ROI opportunity 12 Dec 2012 | 10:12 am
When it comes to mobile services, the relationship between the carrier and their customers today is perhaps a parental one. The customer looks to the carrier for security of service. When they have an...
TuMe or not TuMe? 28 Sep 2012 | 03:14 pm
I’ve been using WhatsApp for more than a year now, and I like it. I use it a lot for sending picture messages to family abroad, where its a big improvement on expensive (and unreliable) MMS. I’ve also...
The new iPhone5 has arrived – what impact will it have on your network? 21 Sep 2012 | 03:29 pm
5 years after the first iPhone was introduced and re-defined (or arguably properly defined for the first time) our understanding of what a smartphone can actually do, comes the iPhone 5. And with Appl...
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google….Who’s next? Part 2 10 Sep 2012 | 03:35 pm
Multi-national Communication Service Provider’s(CSP’s) are learning much from their new competitors – the ‘Gang of Four’ – about tools and ideas to redefinebusiness. These includea combination of – th...
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google….Who’s next? Part 1 29 Aug 2012 | 12:44 pm
Phil Simon’s new book is entitled ‘The Age of Platform: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google have Redefined Business’. Simon’s thesis is that this ‘Gang of Four’ went from creating single products, ...
There’s more to LTE than just a bigger pipe 31 Jul 2012 | 07:42 pm
As the pace of LTE deployments gather pace, it seems more and more operators are turning to network sharing in an effort to slash network costs. Recent reports from Ovum suggest that over 50% of all ...
