Category Archives: Telecom

The Skills you’ll need to succeed according to Gartner

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Rob

At the Orange Live 2010 the most covered keynote was Peter Sondergaard, SVP at Gartner’s ‘what’s hot for IT and Consumers’. We’ve covered pretty much most of the content from the event here on this blog. I’m pretty sure a … Continue reading →

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My most popular post – EVPN’s, VPN’s & IVPN’s

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Rob

There’s one post that’s always near the top of my stats and it’s this one – VPN’s, EVPN’s and IVPN’s. With all the tech stuff out there and carrier pages and wikipedia too, there’s usually a good number of people … Continue reading →

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Location becomes fashionable again

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Rob

The improvement in technology has meant that location is now important. Why, because Location Based services (LBS) are a hot topic at the moment with a huge interest in services such as Foursquare and Gowalla both of which are growing … Continue reading →

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Truphone could wipe the floor with Google voice

Posted on June 18, 2009 by Rob

There’s a lot of buzz on the web right now about Google voice going public. But there’s still a huge problem, text messages. What people are looking to do is disconnect their number from their sim card. People are keen … Continue reading →

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Connection Managers for S60

Posted on January 17, 2009 by Rob

I’ve been playing with the two main connection managers for S60, Psiloc Connect and Birdsteps Connect. The idea of these apps is that they manage the connection your apps use, for example when at home they will prefer the faster … Continue reading →

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Who should manage privacy in the age of Ubiquitous Computing?

Posted on December 18, 2008 by Rob

It’s clear that privacy is a concern in today’s web 2.0 world; the post ‘Does Google’s flu-tracker raise privacy issues?’ talks about Google’s ability to mine data and its potential impact on privacy. This is a valid concern, but may … Continue reading →

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My Dad gets a Dongle

Posted on August 21, 2008 by Rob

My Dad lives in Spain, he’s been there a few years now and we’ve managed to keep in touch using BT, and then I changed that to first jajah and most recently to Rebtel. However,  recently Dad had a visitor … Continue reading →

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Another new role at Orange!

Posted on July 12, 2008 by Rob

It’s only been a few months since the last time I mentioned that I’d got a new role within Orange Business, but it’s all change again, I’ve moved Managers and become the Manager of a new group, Telecoms Integrated Operators. … Continue reading →

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Nokia E71 a two handed device.

Posted on July 4, 2008 by Rob

I’ve been using the E71 for a couple of days now and I don’t know what to think, but something is nagging at me, that maybe this isn’t the perfect phone I’d hoped it would be. It may be just … Continue reading →

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Telco Dilemma Musing: Should carriers move into banking?

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Rob

There’s two reasons I ask this, because of the talk about selling laptops that I read about and an experience I had yesterday. The selling laptops is interesting and broadband providers did it recently so it’s not a new model. … Continue reading →

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The US becomes a low cost country.

Posted on March 11, 2008 by Rob

BMW is moving some car production to the US to save costs [via] This isn’t the first I’ve read about switching work back into the US. Infosys the India IT company was moving some helpdesk services back into the US … Continue reading →

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Telco Dilemma Series: 3. So is it unlimited or unlimited*

Posted on March 10, 2008 by Rob

The implication of truly unlimited bandwidth for the users can have huge impacts on the network. We’ve seen the impact of iPlayer on Easynet (a 20% rise in bandwidth and rising), is that there needs to be investment in the … Continue reading →

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Pat Phelan’s interview on 96fm.ie

Posted on March 4, 2008 by Rob

Here’s 8 and a bit minutes of Pat’s interview on 96fm.ie radio on the subject of the O2 iPhone launch in Ireland. It’s almost 8mb in size.

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Telco Dilemma Series 2: The implications of unlimited bandwidth.

Posted on March 4, 2008 by Rob

Reports already suggest that the ARPU is falling and that the uptake in data is expected to fill the gap. So we know that Carriers are pinning their future on the update of data packages both capped and unlimited. So … Continue reading →

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Telco Dilemma Series: 1. the cost of unlimited & ARPU

Posted on February 29, 2008 by Rob

As I mentioned in the preface post, SMS Text news has a post “US Carriers become dumb pipes”. The debate on dumb pipes is obviously wider than that single post and is really around what the carriers should provide, i.e. … Continue reading →

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