Comments on: Back to basics http://www.telecoms.com/11489/back-to-basics/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=back-to-basics telecoms.com is the leading provider of global news, comment and analysis for the telecommunications industry Tue, 15 May 2012 13:40:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.6 By: Matt http://www.telecoms.com/11489/back-to-basics/comment-page-1/#comment-2779 Matt Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:39:00 +0000 http://www.telecoms.com/?p=11489#comment-2779 It would seem that Buckingham pines for the good old days when telecoms could charge customers rediculous fees for mundane service (as continues to be the practise in Canada as an example). The fact is the industry carriers when monitization ruled tried to live in walled gardens like little theifdoms. The walls began to crack as off-deck content exploded and further cracked and crumbled with the development of a host of app's. All this innovation in service driven by whom?..the carriers...no of course not. The fact is that the sooner the carriers recognize that they are nothing more than a pipe the better we in the development industry will be. It took the wireline industry about 100 years to figure that out. The mobile industry seems to have taken far less time and that is ultimately a good thing for the consuming public. It would seem that Buckingham pines for the good old days when telecoms could charge customers rediculous fees for mundane service (as continues to be the practise in Canada as an example). The fact is the industry carriers when monitization ruled tried to live in walled gardens like little theifdoms. The walls began to crack as off-deck content exploded and further cracked and crumbled with the development of a host of app’s.

All this innovation in service driven by whom?..the carriers…no of course not. The fact is that the sooner the carriers recognize that they are nothing more than a pipe the better we in the development industry will be.

It took the wireline industry about 100 years to figure that out. The mobile industry seems to have taken far less time and that is ultimately a good thing for the consuming public.

]]> By: Richard Bloor http://www.telecoms.com/11489/back-to-basics/comment-page-1/#comment-2510 Richard Bloor Thu, 21 May 2009 22:31:56 +0000 http://www.telecoms.com/?p=11489#comment-2510 'iPhone is just one build globally, if you want to work with RIM or Windows Mobile or Symbian or whatever, you’ve got thousands of builds' And this for a so called expert - there is a wealth of software for Symbian devices which uses one build to install on almost all available phones - you may need 2 or 3 builds to span editions or take advantage of device specific features but certainly not even 10s let alone 1000s ‘iPhone is just one build globally, if you want to work with RIM or Windows Mobile or Symbian or whatever, you’ve got thousands of builds’

And this for a so called expert – there is a wealth of software for Symbian devices which uses one build to install on almost all available phones – you may need 2 or 3 builds to span editions or take advantage of device specific features but certainly not even 10s let alone 1000s

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