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Last week I visited Japan and China. Japan truly is the land of the mobile internet, as pretty much all 120M mobile subscribers are on 3G now, with something like 25% of mobile subscribers expected to be on LTE by 2015. It’s interesting having great mobile internet connections. One of my colleagues...
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I spent the summer engorged in analyst research. It was all over my office. It was in my briefcase. It was on my computer and iPad. It was in my head. It was on the plane with me. It was home with me. It was even on my deck with me. All in the name of business planning. As its part of my job, it's...
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Over the next few years we’ll start to see LTE move into the mainstream. It will not, however, be the immediate panacea for all of the bandwidth and spectrum issues as it will take some time to roll out. It will however start to get us moving in the right direction and combining with HSPA (High...
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Last week, I looked back at the 10 most impactful telecom advances of the last decade. In this blog, I will look forward and make some predictions for what 2011 holds. And then to differentiate myself, in one year's time, I'll score myself and see if I got anything remotely right! Since the mobile...
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Last week, I was asked by Voice & Data in India to contribute to an article they’re publishing in January on the “Top 10 Technologies in the last decade that have Transformed the Telecom Sector.” This was an interesting exercise for me, and really got me thinking. While 10 years...
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As I wrote in my last blog, last week I was in Budapest. Budapest is a great place. Turns out some time ago, there were two different cities on the banks of the Danube – one called Pest and one called Buda. They were then unified to create a single city called….drum roll please…Budapest...
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In the past couple of weeks, I've had a couple of experiences with using the WiFi feature of my Blackberry. Last week, I wrote about attending Interop in New York and when I attended the keynotes, which were deep within the recesses of the Javitz Convention center, my cell phone dropped to EDGE....
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Readers of this blog know that I'm very bullish on mobile video services.TMCnet.com has posted an article called "How Big Will Video Telephony Be? And For Whom?" and it sites ABI Research estimating mobile video services will be greater than $2B in 2013. This is one of the first reports...
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Japan has always been at the forefront of mobility and the use of mobile phones. It's always an interesting place to go to see how people are using mobile phones. In the land of Pokémon , it's not surprising this was one of the first places I remember seeing the equivalent of emoticons...
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Back on April 15 th , I wrote about Germany's spectrum auction for the spectrum beyond 3G, likely to be used for LTE. The auction ended a couple of weeks ago netting a price tag of 4.38B Euros, much less than the recent $14.5B auction of 3G spectrum in India and much less than the 50B Euro 3G auction...
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A couple of weeks ago I visited Singapore for some press meetings. One good thing about Singapore is that there is a 3G network here and when we talked to the press, we were able to demonstrate some live 3G video applications that have been built on Dialogic video enabling platforms. One bad thing about...
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Well, it's a very exciting day for all of us in the Dialogic community! Some of you may have noticed a press release we issued and/or some press activity regarding Dialogic and Veraz Networks announcing a definitive agreement to merge. The deal is expected to close sometime in the 2 nd half of 2010...
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This is my last blog about CTIA, at least for now. Outside of all the 3G/4G network noise and whose network is faster (I wonder when we will see 5G hype) and Android phones, the show had a good business rhythm. Since Shaun White was on display at one side of the show floor and I didn't want to get...
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Today is April Fool's Day, and I wanted to write my blog about the wonders of 5G. I was going to describe a 5G installation in Tibet and I was going to describe 100 gigabit/second speeds, how a bazillion gigabyte file downloaded in less than 5 seconds, and wireless backhaul from mountaintop to mountaintop...
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I was in New York City a couple of days before New Year’s Eve to check out the New York Christmas scene. I found myself walking through a tourist filled Times Square. Some celebrity was doing an interview there. I didn’t look to see who it was because all I wanted to do was get out of there...
