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Normal 0 false false false EN-US KO X-NONE There has been a flurry of activity surrounding the announcement of the deal by AT&T to buy T-Mobile. The deal, set at $39 billion, is one of the largest deals since the financial crisis; one wonders if such a deal would be healthy for the competition, benefit...
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I will be going to Singapore in a few weeks for the Telco Strategies 2011 conference, and I always like going to Asia since the mobile market is different than the US market. For instance, one difference that's important to understand is how people pay for the usage of their phones. In the US, people...
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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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A visit to London and the annual "Over the Air" mobile developer conference ( http://overtheair.org). Over the Air is organised by the Mobile Mondays' London networking group ( http://momolo.org) . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j03klLU8jCo
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In the world of TV things are changing fast. In the UK where I live, digital TV was introduced back in 1997, and by 2012 analogue TV will be completely gone. I understand that the transition in the US has been even faster. Alongside this, there are many more different ways to watch TV. Many people now...
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All of these network and network infrastructure improvements, as well as likely tiered pricing options in the future, will help get us to improved mobile network service. The mobile internet marches on, and there will be increasingly more and more usage of it, and technology will solve the problem ultimately...
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Content-owners attitudes to YouTube vary wildly. On the one hand some (like Viacom) have decided on high-stakes legal battles for "massive intentional copyright violations". On the other, some conventional broadcasters (like NBC) have created their own official YouTube landing pages. In the...
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I arrived here for a customer event and there was no car traffic. I was surprised since I had heard how horrible it was. It turns out the country was virtually shut down when I arrived, since there was a World Cup qualifying match with Algeria going on. I have since understood well the traffic issues...
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Last week I wrote about the iPhone coming to Korea. I was in Seoul for one of the Dialogic Executive Summit events. Korea is an interesting place, one that to me, is always thriving with mobile innovation. Color ring back tones originated in Korea for instance around 2001. And background music soon after...
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Although they are most famous for tracking American television viewing habits, the folks at Nielsen also measure other types of media consumption in the United States. Each quarter, they publish their Three Screens Report , which provides timely data about viewing habits across the “three screens”...
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This blog continues a multi-part series that suggests ideas by which our customers could deploy and monetize video applications. Most of these ideas (as stated) are as yet un-tested in the industry, but we believe there is enough value in the ideas to encourage our more clever readers to enable or launch...
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This blog continues a multi-part series that suggests ideas by which our customers could deploy and monetize video applications. Most of these ideas (as stated) are as yet un-tested in the industry, but we believe there is enough value in the ideas to encourage our more clever readers to enable or launch...
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This blog begins a multi-part series that suggests ideas by which our customers could deploy and monetize video applications. Most of these ideas (as stated) are as yet un-tested in the industry, but we believe there is enough value in the ideas to encourage our more clever readers to enable or launch...
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This one caught me completely by surprise. This Neilson Report talks about how certain US cable companies have placed bandwidth caps on the total amount of data you can access in a month. These caps come at an inopportune time with respect to recently emerging video services on the internet. Yet, network...
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Check out this recent Technology Review . In essence, what they are suggesting is that you will minimize processing power in your mobile handset if all the computational work were done in the cloud. This could be a way to get over the key hurdle of mobile devices: battery consumption. Perhaps the future...
