Rob’s Digital Life

This is a great article, it looks at some of the issues I’ve been expecting such as low moral within the businesses that are going through M&A’s as job’s become uncertain as businesses rationalize head count after identifying the synergies.

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This is an interesting article on the architecture behind the triple plays that we will be seeing soon.
We have seen monumental shifts in our field in the past two decades,
but those might be just a tune-up for the battle of the titans that
will be unleashed by the telco Triple Play initiatives. Hopefully the
telcos will [...]

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France Telecom appear to be leading the telco field right now. They have a substantial national business, and International business using the Equant brand and a mobile operation, Orange which is an excellent brand. They also own Wanadoo the UK’s largest ISP. So they’ve got a quality portfolio of brands across the telco market place. [...]

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I’ve been using the Skype out service again recently and I wondered who the carriers where that we providing the termination for the VoIP traffic. Well it appears to be level3, Colt and Teleglobe and IBasis.

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I’ve just purchased something made by TUMI..not going to say what or how much as the wife will go nuts.

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I’m currently sat in Stuttgart airport waiting for my flight home. I forgot my travel charger when I got up at 5am this morning, so I managed to borrow one from the BA exec lounge desk which is lucky. But it’s a british, to american to north european, so it’s ahnging out of the socket! [...]

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It looks like the MCI takeover by bidders Virizon and Qwest has turned into a slanging match.
The bid battle between Verizon Communications and Qwest Communications for control of MCI, the second-largest US long-distance carrier, has quickly become a slanging match between the two rivals. [via ft.com]
It looks like it’s over for Qwest…I think I speak [...]

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I’ve got some homework to do, there’s a new deal on the horizon and I need to understand the regulatory position of the vendors we could use. So I’ll be spending a considerable amount of time loitering around the OFCOM site. I’ve been trying to avoid diving too deeply into the regulatory stuff but the [...]

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I’m off to Stuttgart tomorrow morning, 6.50 flight out of Manchester. I’m off to see my Region Manager for Central region, Peter and his team. We’re going to be looking at a few things while we are there including some new deal stuff, a couple of problems with a carrier and a look at the [...]

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It’s gone..horah..sold to my friend Matt at Psion Ex.

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Sony’s PSP’s have made it to these shore’s already. One of the team in Portsmouth has one already!…lucky Greg!

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IMAGE_099 Originally uploaded by Rob Evans.
The Evans household has got an Espace for a week and a bit. The BMW’s going back soon, so it’s time to check out some new cars. Lainey loves it, it’s got the full length sun roof so she can spot [...]

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I upgraded to Flickr pro the other day as I, like most people have been impressed by it’s ease of use and general fun theme. However, my views of it been great have reduced to my views being it’s just good now.
I started uploading around 300 of our photo’s to the site using the tool, [...]

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I’m moving the RSS feed from here to here
Please update your aggregators asap…Thanks!!!

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Arbitrage means a way to lock in a certainly non-negative profit at zero cost. In the example above this would be done by selling (short) the direct link (a,b) and buying the indirect path (a,c,b) to provide  the required service from a to b. Since in a geographical arbitrage
    situation the indirect path (a,c,b) [...]

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