Category Archives: Telecom

Is Skype a Telco? – Yes

Martin asks if Skype is a Telco, I think they are. (TELephone COmpany) A company that provides telephone services The definition makes no mention of owning physical infrastructure or it’s own circuit or switched network. Skype is a Telco in … Continue reading

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Leaving IBM

The big news for me recently was that I resigned from IBM on Friday. I’ve been with them for 9 years, all of which have been great. All the people I’ve worked with across europe and the globe have been … Continue reading

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Om asks old dogs to heal

Om posts on how BT is doing a great job of shouting about how it’s changing or trying to change. A lot of the change has been forced upon it by the way. Anyway, there are some great comments and … Continue reading

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Orb is now working

I’ve now got Orb2.0 working on my home PC and it means I can gain access to any of the media on it from where ever and from which ever devices. Streaming media to my phone is just great. I’ve … Continue reading

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Google MVNO in the UK

Lot’s of speculation on this one. [via] The UK mobile market is saturated, recent trading figures for Q1 showed little growth and even some decline. An news item on today’s radio 5 about how much money we’re all wasting on … Continue reading

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OBS doing well in the UK

Back on April 2nd Orange Business Services “announced a phenomenal 55% increase in the number of clients and a 100% increase in revenue and staff of its UK operation.” From Bob’s guide

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Telco spending on kit in 2007

The oringal title of this post [here] has “Telco equipment spedning for 2007 to be low” That’s a slightly misleading title as the spending for 2007 will be the highest since 2002 the article goes on to say. Anyway, an … Continue reading

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The Trouble with Home Networking

David Pogue has some fun with his wireless router testing. One of the most frequent requests I get from friends and family is, can you help me set up my home network. Over the last two weeks, I’ve helped my … Continue reading

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Vonage CEO quits

It’s not good news when you’re CEO quits. He’s either fallen on his sword or leaving a sinking ship..you can make your mind up as to which one. I wonder how many other Telco’s encouraged Verizon to sue over the … Continue reading

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3UK has low 3G Data utilisation

This is a very long post, but worth the read to understand Martin’s dig at at 3 in the UK right at the end. the moral of the story is – if you disagree with the Telco2.0 team don’t do … Continue reading

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Cisco to pursue an aggressive M&A Strategy

Cisco Vice-President Ned Hooper will pursue an aggressive M&A strategy that will target bigger fish than the networking champ is used to catching I don’t think that’s news, I thought Cisco always had an aggressive M&A strategy, they bought anything … Continue reading

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Truphone clone

Here’s a Truphone clone, WifiMobile, that’s hit the blogosphere. Again only Nokia E-Series Phones are capable.[via] Technorati Tags: wifiMobile, Truphone, MOIP

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AT&T want’s $3.5 billion Telecom Italia Stake

This story is building up some steam. AT&T want to buy one-third of the holding company Olimpia, which holds 18% of Telecom Italia. So if I’m right, that’s 6% of Telecom Italia for $3.5billion, which therefore values Telecom Italia at … Continue reading

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Orange and Blyk announce MVNO Deal

This press release dated today announces that Orange is going to be the network under the Blyk mobile service. Blyk which is a free ad funded service, the first of it’s kind in the UK, have entered into a wholesale … Continue reading

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AT&T to buy stake in Telecom Italia

Hmm, this comes too close to April fools to be true. I can only see this as a mobile play. Italy is a tiny Telecoms market and AT&T doesn’t play well there. I think AT&T will continue to grow through … Continue reading

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