Posts in the Business Planning Category

In two words: transformation and customer experience (Ok, that’s three – but two ideas).  This buzz was bandied about by service providers, integrators and vendors alike, and it was no surprise to me that Telstra and BT were mentioned this week in the same breath more than once, as the pioneers with the courage to […]

Steve Lohr wrote a great article about the growth of Internet congestion on Thursday in the New York Times.  In the article, Steve focuses on the Internet traffic jam from the consumer perspective but I was struck more by the issues Internet congestion raises on the business side.  The fact that high-bandwidth services like video […]

On Friday, Paul Taylor published a column in the Financial Times extolling the value of femtocells.  While Taylor focuses mostly on the benefits femtocells bring consumers (e.g., better cell coverage at home and in the office, removal of the last real stumbling block to cutting your wireline connection), I was struck by the benefits to […]

Verizon Wireless has set March 19 as the date it will release the first version of its open network service specs.  As c|net’s Marguerite Reardon points out, the pricing of the “Any Device, Any App” service is still up in the air (no pun intended):
“But even though Verizon appears to be embracing the network openness, […]

I had the good fortune this week of leaving the cold Northeast behind and spending some time in Barcelona at the GSMA Mobile World Congress.  It’s been exciting to walk around the show floor and see the future of the mobile industry, and particularly the prototype “Google phones” built on the Android platform. Android-based phones […]

Verizon Wireless has made a large footprint in the “Open” movement over the last week — first opening its network to outside devices and applications, then announcing its plan to use the LTE (Long Term Evolution) standard instead of UMB (ultramobile broadband), and Tuesday joining Google’s Open Handset Alliance.  The company is positioning the OHA […]

I don’t know about you, but I’m certainly ready for Thanksgiving and looking forward to tomorrow.  As I think about the time people spend preparing for the big day, slowly filling the fridge and creating a menu, I couldn’t help but draw an analogy in my head - preparing for a successful Thanksgiving dinner isn’t […]

I attended the TeleManagement Forum’s “Management World Americas” show in Dallas last week, and one of the more notable talks I sat in on was by Phil Dance, British Telecom’s CIO for technology. During his talk about BT’s 21CN migration, Phil noted that the rate of change in the industry continues to increase and […]

I was watching TV last night and I saw the Verizon commercial where the husband and wife suggest introducing their house’s landline “network” to the wife’s cell phone “network” - but of course they know each other already because the Verizon “network” is all one big happy family (cue the Verizon theme song…). This commercial reminded me […]