Rob’s Digital Life

MMS or as Telepocalypse thinks it should be called; Misconceived messaging service is again taking a whacking. There aren’t too many people that think MMS is a good thing. I’ve commented on it in the past. Tom Hume also quoted a BBC article on the subject. Shall we have a bet on how long before [...]

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LLU or Local Loop Unbundling is a subject that came up in a recent meeting and how it may affect the market. Here’s ofcom’s pages on what LLU is. The site goes on to give you a background including history of LLU.

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NTL and Telewest, Britain’s two largest cable companies are being urged by shareholders to merge. This would form a $7 billion company able to attack both Sky and BT

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I just thought I’d record some notes about roaming with the Treo 600. Overall it worked well, it flashes between the network providers name and the word ‘roaming’ to let you know you’re using another network.
GPRS worked well too, both via Orange CH and Swiss GSM, but we’ll see what the bills come in at. [...]

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I spent last week on a Management course at the Zurich Development Centre. The location was outstanding and the venue can only be described as outstanding too! You can find out more here. The bit that got me, was that the Lounges had rows of fridges stocked with wine and beer and you [...]

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Reflections and musings on developments within the European telecom sector, with an emphasis on disruptive influences and emerging business models - by James Enck of Daiwa Securities SMBC Europe Ltd.
Looks interesting ..worth a read.

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Nortel is looking to sell it’s hardware devision. Nortel got it’s self into all sort of financial trouble recently and now they plan to sell off their hardware making division, I’m not so sure it’s a good idea, but they must see a bigger picture.

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Just some house keeping, I’m off to Zurich next week with work, so posts may or may not be forthcoming. You know what it’s like on business trips
I’m packing all the usual thinkpad and wireless stuff and my Treo 600 has it’s 256mb SD card loaded with mp3’s.
Flying BA out of Manchester, 5.30am (gulp) [...]

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Nokia was foiled in it’s attempt to buy a larger share of the British software maker Symbian. Sony Ericsson, Siemens and Panasonic all bought shares restricting Nokia’s control to less than 50%.
That’s an interesting development, as it show’s that Sony Ericsson etc. think that Symbian is too good to let Nokia control it. Nokia uses [...]

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Last month, the Webtorials community was asked to respond to a survey concerning their plans and preferences for customer premises equipment (CPE). [via Network World Fusion]
One of the key factors for providing a reliable service is MTBF. Mean time before failure gives you a good view of how good a product is. You want [...]

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‘Company mobile phone’ low down the perk pecking-order…and nobody really knows who should dish them out…’
Very few companies are giving staff mobile phones as a standard ‘perk’ or even as a work necessity.
Research from silicon.com has revealed that a massive 43.3 per cent of IT workers adopt an almost incredulous ‘I’d be lucky’ attitude when [...]

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Energis claims to have turned a corner, posting its first annual profit since the severe restructuring at the telco in 2002.
For the 12 months to 31 March, it made a pre-exceptional item profit of £10m on revenues of £745m - actually down three per cent year-on-year - compared to a year-ago loss of £369m.
Eamonn O’Hare, [...]

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The Post Office is to use its strong brand, and C&W’s network, to take on BT in the residential phone market with its HomePhone service.
It will join other C&W customers such as Tescos, British Gas and Lloyds bank in offering customer pre-select (CPS) services to homes and small businesses and carve out a chunk of [...]

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