Why new service delivery strategies need new service delivery platforms
It’s very easy to think that all of the recent hype around service delivery platforms and service-oriented architectures is just that, hype. After all, these aren’t technologies that you can see and feel as an end user, so it’s hard to know if they’re making a difference...
IPTV, I hardly recognized you
Things used to be so simple. Way back in the dark ages of 2007, IPTV was relatively easy to define for any company that had some skin in the game...
Utilities respond to smart grid spectrum debate
Last week, I wrote a column looking at the question of whether utilities need their own dedicated spectrum for smart grid deployments...
The Network is the Phone
It’s time for operators to dust off one of the more insightful aphorisms of the 1990s and apply it – with a bit of a twist -- to the coming expansion out of the mobile data network...
Do smart grids need special spectrum?
In my coverage of the smart grid space, I had laid out three potential market-entry options for utilities looking to develop a communications backbone specifically for the smart grid...
The smart grid opportunity
The smart grid may just become the next big opportunity for providers of both telecom services and equipment the questions are when and how much. According...
Is exclusivity synonymous with innovation?
In my past two years covering telecommunications, Apple's iPhone has been at least somewhat responsible for driving most of the trends I have written...
Flexing those 4G muscles
We may still be a long way from realizing nationwide high-capacity mobile broadband, but cellular operators took some sizable first steps this week...
Inventing the self-winding phone
On its own, your phone charger may not be draining a large portion of the world’s energy resources, but the collective drain of the planet’s 4 billion–plus phones pack quite a punch...
How green can mobile phones go?
Companies in the telecom space have gotten real about going green in the past few years. They’ve had to, as consumers have become increasingly eco-conscious and, more likely, cost-conscious...
A look at the future AT&T and Sprint
When writing about future technologies, it’s easy to forget about the operator...
What I learned at TelcoTV
Conflicted is suddenly the word that comes to mind when I think about telcos getting into video, especially after spending two days in Anaheim at TelcoTV....
Pondering lessons not learned
Kenny Van Zant lived through one period of telephone company history that he hopes he isn't doomed to repeat. ...
The content champion
Chris Ruff: From enterprise software to business school to an attempt to redefine mobile messaging at Aptelix. Now president of UIEvolution, helping redefine how mobile content is developed and distributed...
When is best of breed a dog?
In recent conversations with several vendors two things have become clear: most people are just guessing when comes to picking winners in the IPTV world; and placing your bets on every contender is a sure fire way to lose most of your money but generate a fair number of press releases....
Is two billion the peak?
A new study by Informa Telecom & Media has the global wireless industry on track to break all previous year's records for growth, adding a projected 380 million net subscribers by year end. ...
Yankee finds muni love
It's too early to do those end-of-the-year news roundups that publications routinely use to fill space while the staff goes to holiday parties and on vacations, but I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that municipally owned broadband networks, and all the controversy they've generated, are among the bigger stories of 2005....
Segmenting the herd
It's sort of sweet justice--in only a perverse way--that it now appears telcos may indeed end up getting statewide video franchises. ...
Qualcomm takes on Europe
Europe is about to get a taste of one vendor it's not used to dealing with: Qualcomm....
The gathering storm
There's an article on the WiMAX Trends site by Robert Syputa, senior analyst for Maravedis, that I wish I had written. I like it because it cuts through the bull that most of the wireless industry pitches on the issue of whether broadband wireless technologies like WiMAX, particularly in the mobile format for which it is destined, will be competitive with high-speed cellular data platforms such as EV-DO...
This whole Nortel schmozzle
If the frustration expressed by investors yesterday at Nortel Networks' combined 2004-2005 annual meeting carried a theme, it was a call for cultural change at Nortel--an evolution that's taking place in fits and starts...
Handset skin
Members of the mobile phone industry had better start spending more time thinking about sex, according to the Yankee Group...
A bunch of moving broadband parts
After spending part of the at Supercomm and then jetting off to Europe for a client meeting, I found myself confronted by the confusion that all prospective broadband customers might face--confusion in choosing a type of broadband service, as well as trying to use broadband while traveling both domestically and abroad...
Details matter
Is it a sign of maturity when one of the bigger topics of discussion among video vendors on the Supercomm show floor is the speed of channel changes at the Microsoft TV booth? Or are they just that bored after two days of non-stop demonstrations that have vendors ready to leap from Chicago's famous tall buildings?...
