Can you remember what you were doing ten years ago this week? Were you sitting in a hot tub sipping champagne, surrounded by beautiful people? Were you kitting out your office with high end leather chairs, beer fridges and an expensive games room? Were you dreaming up a talking sock puppet mascot? Were you taking out an enormous mortgage? Were you hatching plans for a new dotcom launch that would make you a millionaire and enable all of the above?
The traditional macronetwork model is under fire as operators look for more cost-effective deployment strategies that target network capacity where it is most urgently needed. It is a trend that doesn’t end with the RAN but extends into the backhaul and core networks and is coupled with the drive to reduce the per-bit cost of transporting data across the entire network.
Social networking has already proven its appeal, if not its worth, on the fixed line internet—and the move to mobile seems a natural evolution. So what happens when these worlds collide? Some very big numbers indeed.
Apple is at the centre of controversy in the developer community this week, as its über secret Developer Program License agreement is published for all to see. Well, almost.
Opportunities in the global mobile healthcare market are estimated to be worth between $50bn and $60bn in 2010, prompting operators to step up their initiatives in this emerging sector.
The surge in mobile data and broadband traffic in advanced markets over the last couple of years is something of a double-edged sword. While it has finally validated carriers’ long-held strategic thinking, it has exposed gaps in their network performance.
Eighteen months after its acquisiton of mapping and navigation firm Navteq, Nokia aims to make Ovi Maps a contextual platform at the centre of a variety of mobile applications.
Femtocell technology is experiencing the first signs of maturity, with several tier one operators deploying the technology using a variety of business models.
The Informer’s been getting his head down early every night this week, in a pointless effort to bank some shuteye ahead of the five-day festival of sleep deprivation that is the 2010 Mobile World Congress, which begins on Monday. Actually, some firms are starting early, trying to entice the likes of the Informer to boozy parties on the Sunday night. Because, of course, it makes sense to embark on a four-day floor-pound at the Fira de Barcelona with a ripping hangover for company.
Mapping and navigation firm Telmap added further to its armoury this week through a partnership with mobile advertising sales agency 4th Screen Advertising, paving the way for Telmap to offer location-based ads.
Great article James and I agree that mobile social network is huge for smartphone and data adoption and drives by ...
Indeed I did Wardell. Amended.
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