Suzanne Bowen
32 yrs in telecom, teaching, blog & grant writing, biz development, marketing, & PR. Favorite moments in life involve time w/ family & friends, networking, IP communications industry verticals & horizontals, running, traveling, foreign languages
| 1. "Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition..." Barack Obama .....
2. "One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain." By Thomas Sowell
Emerging Threats Combats a Million Plus Pieces of New Malware a Week
There are 250,000 plus new pieces of malware being produced each day equating to one piece per person in the US in...
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NFV-Based Software Telcos Need OSS/BSS Interoperability
One of the goals of ETSI NFV is to allow new entrants to provide solutions to carriers based on software instead of...
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SysAid's Lifshitz: The Cloud Will Dominate ITSM Market
Cloud computing has really become a household word with mainstream media outlets running stories on television about the growth in the space...
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Avaya Takes Networking Lead in SPB
At Interop Las Vegas 2013 Avaya was demonstrating their real-world Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) solutions and while interoperating with Spirent, HP and...
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Alianza Wants to Host Your Software Telco
The software telco(r)evolution representing the move from hardware to software is perhaps the biggest trend in the world of carrier telecom this...
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WebRTC Screen Sharing Using Openfire
I've written about WebRTC screen sharing, but today I came across another WebRTC screen sharing solution leveraging Openfire and using WebSockets and...
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LTE Network Interactions
According to a recently released GSMA Wireless Intelligence infographic, there are 163 live LTE networks today, and that figure is expected...
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November 2, 2008
Barry Murphy and David Hamil from Softex talk to us about why they participate in Gitex. They do voice management solutions and are having fantastic success at Gitex 2008 in recruiting clients, distributors and resellers in the EMEA region.
I think they should participate in ITEXPO, CTIA Wireless, SuperComm, and CommunicAsia in 2009. You, too.
I think they should participate in ITEXPO, CTIA Wireless, SuperComm, and CommunicAsia in 2009. You, too.
Teletimes International Magazine Interview at Gitex 2008
November 2, 2008Watch and listen to the interview with Khalid Athar of Teletimes International magazine at Gitex 2008 on Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sV6nsPlZ1k.
Topics in this magazine give me and you a unique view of the world, especially us in the West but at the same the magazine does write on personalities, services, issues, businesses of the West and East and also the big picture, the world. Some titles in the magazine lately include:
Will saturation kill innovation
Has the clock struck 3G
Licensing of broadcast mobile TV service in the Emirates
IT workers hit hardest by offshore outsourcing
ITCN Asia 2008
PTCL revolutionizes communication with IPTV services
Dell seeks tremendous prospects in Pakistan's ...
Google bets on Android future
Turkmenistan Wireless Internet offer hints at end to state monopoly
Essar Global to invest $50 M in Kenya's mobile market
Save as much as 90% on global roaming: WorldSim at Gitex 2008
November 2, 2008
Why exhibit at Gitex and what does WorldSim do? Arif Reza, the director of WorldSim, shares its reason for participating in Gitex. They are looking for distributors and resellers. Their solution enables clients to receive free calls from 60 countries in the world. They save business travelers up to 90% of their cell phone roaming charges. They are based in London, UK. See http://www.worldsim.com.
Watch Arif on video at the Gitex 2008 channel on Youtube.
Watch Arif on video at the Gitex 2008 channel on Youtube.
Highlight Good Vendors, Truth about the Bad
October 27, 2008Awesome. VendorRate gives you and me the opportunity to rate our suppliers. I use it regularly for our company's vendors. Just click here http://www.vendorrate.com/r/GKHCHDQT and rate away.
See the quarter 3 of 2008 VendorRate Report, too. Ask your clients to rate you. It's the best advertisment you could have.
How Fring is Monetizing Mobile
October 27, 2008Thanks to Markus Göbel for the summary of what's up with Fring at http://www.goebel.net/technews/2008/09/finally-fring-reveals-how-it-wants-to.html.
Building and Monetizing the Open Mobile Economy
October 27, 2008As the Internet and cellular mash-up, open models attract innovative mobile service entrepreneurs such as the ones noted on my other blog and its coments at http://suzanne.supertec.com/2008/10/response-to-my-request-to-compare.html. Open Mobile Summit is the deal space for the new mobile economy. It's scheduled for Nov 19-20, the week after ISPCON and VOICECON and it's in San Francisco.
- Define your role in the open mobile ecosystem - and how you can profit in this new environment
- Meet the key players from across the entire wireless industry - operators, handsets, software and services - plus Internet, mobile web and new entrants
- Understand the 'open' agendas of wireless, software and Internet giants as they battle for control of the mobile Internet
- Discover how Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, TeliaSonera, Orange, O2 and Vodafone plan to survive and thrive in the new wireless economy
Yearly Tradition of Predicting Etisalat's Legalization of VoIP
October 27, 2008
Every year Gitex 2008 participants pass our exhibit, tag us because of our DIDX shirts (which triggers a local VoIP discussion), and chat with us at receptions regarding the rumor that Etisalat, the government monopoly of telephony in United Arab Emirates... will legalize VoIP by the new year.
A Qatar online newsletter mentions the same in this article UAE May Ease Net Calls Rule.
I ask, "Who benefits most financially when there are restrictions on voice over Internet? Gray voice business, no doubt. Not the government."
I've got an appointment with Etisalat this week, actually two, one with carrier relations and the other with marketing. We'll see what happens.
A Qatar online newsletter mentions the same in this article UAE May Ease Net Calls Rule.
I ask, "Who benefits most financially when there are restrictions on voice over Internet? Gray voice business, no doubt. Not the government."
I've got an appointment with Etisalat this week, actually two, one with carrier relations and the other with marketing. We'll see what happens.
Nike Pairs up with Your Mobile Phone
October 14, 2008
Mobilink, Blackberry, Nike at http://www.mobilinkworld.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=208&Itemid=613.
Nike PhotoID to Create your own training shoes on your cell phone at http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/16/marketingandpr.digitalmedia
Just two of several instances I found on the net of Nike leveraging your mobile phone in creative ways to get your business.
Nike PhotoID to Create your own training shoes on your cell phone at http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/16/marketingandpr.digitalmedia
Just two of several instances I found on the net of Nike leveraging your mobile phone in creative ways to get your business.
Comparison Matrix of 7 Mobile VoIP Apps
October 14, 2008Thanks to a lady in our industry who contributed to my question on my personal VoIP by Association blog at http://suzanne.supertec.com, we now have a very cool comparison/contrast matrix of VoIP mobile applications! Take a look at http://suzanne.supertec.com/2008/10/response-to-my-request-to-compare.html and even download it.
It covers <a href="http://www.ebuddy.com">Ebuddy</a>, <a href="http://www.eqo.com">EQO</a>, <a href="http://www.gizmoproject.com">Gizmo</a>, <a href="http://www.fring.com">Fring</a>, <a href="http://www.mig33.com">Mig33</a>, <a href="http://www.nimbuzz.com">Nimbuzz</a>, <a href="http://www.skype.com">Skype</a>, and <a href="http://www.truphone.com">Truphone</a>.
Making Sense of FCC Access Rules and Regulations
October 8, 2008
$tizing telecommunications whether IP or not can be tough in an age where government regulation stifles growth, innovation, and taxes us to death.
Have you and/or your accounting team gone nuts over things to do with Federal Excise, State Communications Tax, 499 USAC fees, and on and on and on?
So, let's make sense out of it! CCMI's Understanding Telco Access & Interconnection Conference scheduled for October 20 - 21, 2008 is a great way to do that.
- FCC attempts to completely rework access rules and regulations... including USF
- How intercarrier compensation works for local service
(Now, a bit off the subject...
Have you and/or your accounting team gone nuts over things to do with Federal Excise, State Communications Tax, 499 USAC fees, and on and on and on?
So, let's make sense out of it! CCMI's Understanding Telco Access & Interconnection Conference scheduled for October 20 - 21, 2008 is a great way to do that.
- FCC attempts to completely rework access rules and regulations... including USF
- How intercarrier compensation works for local service
(Now, a bit off the subject...
