Change before you have to – Samsonite luggage and teleportation
One could say that airline and mobile industries do have a lot in common. Both of the industries are heavily regulated. There are physical constraints in delivering services – airlines have limited number of landing slots and mobile operators do [...]
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LTE provides an evolution path from various technologies into a single technology that has been agreed by the world to adopt. It is a technology that “unites” the world. So can I bring my LTE handset from where I live, [...]
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THE POWER OF THE INVISIBLE HAND
“In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so,” stated Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations in [...]
Read more »The year of the Rabbit 2011 – “Omnitele paddles against the current”
According to the Chinese Zodiac, the year of 2011 is the year of the golden rabbit. According to the Chinese tradition, the rabbit brings a year in which you can catch your breath and calm your nerves. Well, looking around [...]
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The not so holy grail of Mbit/s
Over the course of 2011, I’ve attended several telecoms conferences throughout the EMEA region and worked on numerous projects we’ve conducted for operators. From what I’ve seen and heard over the past year, the whole industry seems to be trumpeting [...]
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Screams in and whispers by a lobby
Recently I had the opportunity to attend a seminar about digital TV. There was a presentation by a regulator on planning the digital switchover of their country. A wonderful presentation of a project thoroughly planned and undoubtedly to be successfully [...]
Read more »What do the problems in Greece (and in Europe) have to do with telecoms?
You might know the feeling – you open up the newspaper in the morning you get to read about the crisis in Greece and how it is spreading like a wildfire to the rest of the Europe (and even around [...]
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User and Cost Centric Capacity Management – Forgotten Opportunity?
Reading the industry articles and talking with operators around the world, I have identified a couple of topics repeating themselves when it comes to operator headaches with mobile data: Customer centric quality control and increasing investments due to the data [...]
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