With this week’s magnitude-5.4 earthquake in Southern California behind us, experts are saying that the worst is yet to come. Sufficiently shaken – no pun intended – everyone is making a move to step up their emergency preparations. But what about the telecommunications companies whose services are so crucial to people during emergencies?
Telephone service was […]
Yesterday at Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, Steve Jobs discussed what he is calling “iPhone 2.0,” as well as a slew of new applications and services. The success of the iPhone has been huge for Apple since the device launched a little less than a year ago, but Jobs is pushing for more. More countries. More […]
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 […]
In Monday’s FCC hearing [video link] on Comcast’s network management practices, Vuze, a video sharing Website that uses P2P technologies to enable near zero distribution costs, apparently argued that BitTorrent does not hog bandwidth. Real World IT’s George Ou responded with a wonderfully cogent and fact-based response that demonstrated BitTorrent was a gigantic upstream […]
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 […]
On Tuesday night this week while I was preparing for the VPIsystems sales conference, a massive undersea network cable was cut and Internet access was crippled across much of Egypt and India (a trade group estimates about 60 percent of India’s Internet users were affected). I was especially interested to read about the disruption, […]
iPhone users having problems with AT&T’s EDGE network at the biggest consumer electronics show in the U.S.?
I am shocked. Shocked, I say.
If only there was some sort of planning solution that could help carriers ensure that their networks can support their services . . .
Happy New Year, everyone! Here’s to a great 2008!
While I was home watching the ball drop in Times Square and celebrating the start of 2008 with friends and family, millions of other people were busy text messaging their far-flung friends and families to wish them a happy new year. According to the AP, […]
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 […]
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