Posts in the Business Planning Category

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 […]