Archive for the ‘Telecom’ Category
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Mobile TV continue to expand in Asia, Europe and US. AT&T just launched a broadcast Mobile TV service, offering 10 channels for $15 a month. Verizon launched their service one year ago. In Italy UMTS mobile operator 3 (Hutch group) is the most successful commercial launch in Europe for Broadcast ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
IP Multimedia Subsystem or IMS is an architecture standardized by 3GPP, 3GPP2 and TISPAN, that is the choice of telcos to implement not only VoIP, but also other multimedia services, such as videcalls, presence, instant messaging, push-to-x, videosharing, on-line address book, etc.
As an user, you can envision IMS as ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
TechCrunch reports a rumor that AT&T will sell 3G iPhones with 8GB at $199 in US. That would mean a $200 discount from expected $399 price.
AT&T must be doing some numbers and verifying that ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) for iPhone is significantly higher than the average. This would be ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Advertisement can be an important source of revenue to Mobile telcos. And 2008 can be the year where it takes off at last. Still some of the mobile ads practices risk to be perceived as spam, specially SMS ads, where the telco should protect users with spamming filters.
While Mobile TV ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
While Internet TV enjoys the hype, the reality is that Telco's IPTV is growing steady, while Apple and Amazon keep mum on their movie download service numbers.
Every week we have news of players entering Internet TV or existing players reinforcing their offers. This week ReadWriteWeb reports news fron Netflix with ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Nokia keeps its race with Apple to reach agreements with the record labels, in order to bundle content with the sale of devices.
NY Times, Nokia signs Sony BMG for Free Music Offering, reports that Nokia will offer 12-month access to music downloads from SonyBMG catalog, to buyers of Nokia music ...
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Add GMail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Salesforce.com and Skype in a package. Is there a better value proposition for SMEs and SOHOs for their IT and Communications infrastructure?
Add a Linux distro for the business desktop, supported by Google, and you have a killing package for the small and medium ...
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Nokia Q1 results have disappointed analyst, even if revenues grew 28% YoY to reach $20 billion and net profit reached $1.9 billion, up 25% from last year. Nokia shipped 115 M handsets in Q1, 27% YoY growth, with strong performance in emerging markets (Asia, Africa and Middle-East). Still Nokia ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Google did not actually want the spectrum licenses, that ultimately went to Verizon and AT&T. Google's objective was to secure a bid that met the $4.6 Bn price tag that would enforce the regulations they had lobbied for open applications and open devices. Google admits this strategy in their Public ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
TechCrunch post today about WiMAX, Why Cable And WiMax Shouldn’t Mix, clearly misses the point. Their two conclusion items are misconceived, not to say wrong:
1. TechCrunch says: "WiMax is more an alternative to fixed broadband Internet access than it is to mobile phone service"
TechCrunch seems to ignore that WiMAX Rev-d brings mobility and ...
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