Carl Ford
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The Big Deal about Big Data Analytics
By Greg Owens, Senior Director Customer Experience Solutions Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent
The rise of big data is causing service providers to ask some big questions: How should we store our data? How long should we keep it? What parts of it are relevant to our business? Most importantly, how do we get value from it? To turn big data into a big deal, service providers need to extract insights that can help them make smart business decisions and improve the customer experience.
The value of big data is all in what useful and actionable information it can provide. I find it exciting to see how service providers use big data analytics to gain new insights and solve complex problems. With this post, I’ll look at some new research by industry analysts and three key opportunities that big data analytics presents to service providers.
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Full Story »Is Skype Mobile the Exception or the Rule?
March 10, 2010
Verizon Wireless and Skype provided a model for the VoIP provider to meet the wireless operator, but the model is probably not how must carriers will meet.
Next week we are running a webinar about Voice over LTE [VoLTE] which is an interoperabilty standard that the carriers are looking to deploy complying with the 3GPP architecture.
While other proposals have been out there, the VoLTE group represents the scale and overall perspective of the GSMA carrier membership.
It's a SIP based solution using the IMS standard, so in the end it may be that only the larger operators are going to interconnect. However it may be that because of this common platform new services will be available to third parties.
These are the questions that I am looking to get answers to when I attend the webinar March 18th and 11 EDT.
To join us sign up here.
Next week we are running a webinar about Voice over LTE [VoLTE] which is an interoperabilty standard that the carriers are looking to deploy complying with the 3GPP architecture.
While other proposals have been out there, the VoLTE group represents the scale and overall perspective of the GSMA carrier membership.
It's a SIP based solution using the IMS standard, so in the end it may be that only the larger operators are going to interconnect. However it may be that because of this common platform new services will be available to third parties.
These are the questions that I am looking to get answers to when I attend the webinar March 18th and 11 EDT.
To join us sign up here.
Tags: Acme Packet, CSFB, GSMA, RCS, Skype, Skype Mobile, Verizon Wireless, VoLGA, VoLTE
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Should Intel and Nokia Merge
February 22, 2010
Andy Abramson had an interesting concept in his blog this week about Intel and Nokia working more closely together. The basis of the concept starts with the battle in silicon right now. Its and interesting question to contemplate for a number of reasons.
1) The WiMAX, ATOM revolution has not produced the momentum that Intel would [...]
Web envy Google vs. Vodafone
February 17, 2010
At Mobile World Congress Vittiorio Colao the CEO of Vodafone made mention of the fact that regardless of what smart phone your were using over 80% of the time was using Google.
This pointed to the latest love hate the carriers have with Google, but they have a history of not liking any of the computing partners. Apple got to watch the wholesale app announcement with about half of the 24 carriers being their partners pledging to work with LG, Samsung and Sony to build an app market.
Likewise Microsoft has a long history of trying to bring smarts at a time when the network had little capacity for computing.
However, in these times when wireless broadband is an imperative to the carriers the strategies of come one come all, have proven less than successful.
Its clear that mobile markets are going be more like computing the in years past and the company's success will be based on finding ways to partner without losing brand to the consumer, or without using the brand in the application (as in M2M).
One thing that has not risen to the surface in MWC this week is e-readers. The group is strangely silent, either because they are retooling after the iPad or because the deals are not that valuable to the carriers.
Whatever the reason, the computing devices are coming more and more often and it will take more than an app store to catch the consumer's attention.
This pointed to the latest love hate the carriers have with Google, but they have a history of not liking any of the computing partners. Apple got to watch the wholesale app announcement with about half of the 24 carriers being their partners pledging to work with LG, Samsung and Sony to build an app market.
Likewise Microsoft has a long history of trying to bring smarts at a time when the network had little capacity for computing.
However, in these times when wireless broadband is an imperative to the carriers the strategies of come one come all, have proven less than successful.
Its clear that mobile markets are going be more like computing the in years past and the company's success will be based on finding ways to partner without losing brand to the consumer, or without using the brand in the application (as in M2M).
One thing that has not risen to the surface in MWC this week is e-readers. The group is strangely silent, either because they are retooling after the iPad or because the deals are not that valuable to the carriers.
Whatever the reason, the computing devices are coming more and more often and it will take more than an app store to catch the consumer's attention.
Tags: App Store, Apple, e-readers, Google, iPad, LG, M2M, Microsoft, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Vittorio Colao, Vodafone
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Jim Courtney & Carl Ford Converse about Skype & VZW
February 16, 2010Mobile World Congress the Musical
February 16, 2010
My rendering of the South Pacific song
APP APP APP APPY Talk
Appy talk is all we do
You got to have a dream
and any hair brained scheme
Some Developer is going write for you
Look at Apple’s Shares
look at all those subs
Don’t you wish you were one of them too.
Look at all those bucks
riding on phone
Geez, I never realized [...]
Skype & Verizon Wireless Discover Metcalfe's LAW
February 16, 2010
Good News! Verizon Wireless expanded their "on network" to include Skype users. The solution does a number of things.
1) It highlights the blackberry abilities to keep the application resident.
2) It lets Verizon Wireless customers to connect to their Skype buddies
3) It lets Skype users on their Verizon phone to see presence status in their address book.
4) It lets Skype Out to be used to dial international calls.
This means settlements will be bypassed.
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1) It highlights the blackberry abilities to keep the application resident.
2) It lets Verizon Wireless customers to connect to their Skype buddies
3) It lets Skype users on their Verizon phone to see presence status in their address book.
4) It lets Skype Out to be used to dial international calls.
This means settlements will be bypassed.
Tags: Skype, Verizon Wireless
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- I am STUNed with the Jonathan Rosenberg / Skype announcement. - Nov 09, 2009
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Video is the New Voice - Bob Logan of Dialogic
February 9, 2010
Bob Logan and I have been talking about doing an interview about Dialogic’s video work for a while now. As Bob says on the podcast “Video is the new Voice”. So we did an interview together in several forms. Hope you enjoy listening reading and watching.
CF: What is new in Dialogic these [...]
Just in Time For Mobile World Congress
February 9, 2010
Supercomm was cancelled for 2010. While it would interesting to talk about this from the conference side, I will make the assumption that other people will take that opportunity and try to talk about it from a different perspective.
CES was hoping and the buzz was around various forms of wireless use. Ford with Sync, Microsoft with KIA, Wireless devices and devices using wireless were all around most of them Internet enabled.
Mobile World Congress is going on in Barcelona and it's expected to do well next week.
I want to point out that these events are following the money which is no longer about the network its about the consumers freedom of choice.
As congress and the FCC contend with the legacy of the PSTN the new network is flourishing and its not about wireless its about customer choice. The wireless world may still have the same issues facing it that their fixed line brothers faced. Brough Turner points out that over 90% of the packets on any network head for the Internet.
If I were at the FCC I would be ready to advocate that its time to treat all networks as if they were accessing the Internet. Looking at competition not based on the technology but on the services and the primary services. Voice, video and data are probably going to converge at some point as well with the over the top (internet) model
Legacy service providers are looking for protection, but government should praise itself for enabling the competitive landscape we are heading for rather than embedding old rules into the new environment.
In these days of government bail outs its hard to see what is the economic downturn versus technological progress.
If the goal of net neutrality is to support the progress, I would contend it's to dynamic a market to codify. If its to protect the applications from abuses by the legacy networks, I am not sure its needed.
Copyright 4g-wirelessevolution
CES was hoping and the buzz was around various forms of wireless use. Ford with Sync, Microsoft with KIA, Wireless devices and devices using wireless were all around most of them Internet enabled.
Mobile World Congress is going on in Barcelona and it's expected to do well next week.
I want to point out that these events are following the money which is no longer about the network its about the consumers freedom of choice.
As congress and the FCC contend with the legacy of the PSTN the new network is flourishing and its not about wireless its about customer choice. The wireless world may still have the same issues facing it that their fixed line brothers faced. Brough Turner points out that over 90% of the packets on any network head for the Internet.
If I were at the FCC I would be ready to advocate that its time to treat all networks as if they were accessing the Internet. Looking at competition not based on the technology but on the services and the primary services. Voice, video and data are probably going to converge at some point as well with the over the top (internet) model
Legacy service providers are looking for protection, but government should praise itself for enabling the competitive landscape we are heading for rather than embedding old rules into the new environment.
In these days of government bail outs its hard to see what is the economic downturn versus technological progress.
If the goal of net neutrality is to support the progress, I would contend it's to dynamic a market to codify. If its to protect the applications from abuses by the legacy networks, I am not sure its needed.
Tags: 4G Wireless, broadcast, CES, FCC, Ford, Government, Internet, KIA, Microsoft, Mobile World Congress, regulation, Supercomm
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How is your Intellectual Digestive System
February 8, 2010
Am I burping when a friend sends me an article and I reply with a single observation.
I got a note about the NYC Big Apps competition. It was aimed at providing e-government solutions.
Apps are all the rage right now and it is going to continue. The big questions are not are people [...]
Brough Stops the Show
February 8, 2010
We have been buzzing around the discussion of WiFi that Brough Turner shared with us at the 4GWE.
Wi-Fi Opportunities In A 4G World View more presentations from Brough Turner.
Suzanne Bowen's interview is a good commentary to go with the slides. And of course, you can read the man himself
Wi-Fi Opportunities In A 4G World View more presentations from Brough Turner.
Suzanne Bowen's interview is a good commentary to go with the slides. And of course, you can read the man himself
Tags: 4GWE, BelAir, Brough Turner, LTE, Strix, Suzanne Bowen, Tropos, WiFi, WiMAX
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