I’ve seen quite a lot of large numbers and hockey-stick curves recently, all indicating an imminent huge explosion in femto shipments in the next few years.ip.access’ very good femto blog has links to quite a lot of the studies, some of which suggest s…

I went to a launch event for BT’s new upgraded version of its Total Broadband service yesterday. This is a package the company has offered for some time, which bundles assorted additional capabilities along with the basic (and fairly slow - just 8Mbit/…

There’s much confusion and discussion today about Apple selecting two operators to sell iPhones in Italy – Vodafone and Telecom Italia. Plenty of observers are pointing to a huge shift in Apple’s exclusivity strategy, or debating whether the iPho…

I wonder whether there’s a deeper story behind Vodafone’s remarkably terse announcement this morning that it’s going to be selling iPhones in 10 of its national markets.There is no quote from either Jobs or Sarin - just two abrupt sentences. As I’m wri…

At the Informa IMS conference in Paris last week, there was a lot of discussion about the new acronym du jour - RCS, or Rich Communications Suite. I’d had a bit of a heads-up on this at 3GSM in February, but I got to drill a bit deeper, see some demo’s…

As I mentioned the other day, I was chairing a conference session on “Green” base stations and network on Friday. It had some really fascinating presentations from NSN, Ericsson, Vodafone & T-Mobile, with a lot of detail on a variety of different a…

The cellular industry is very fond of big numbers - 1 billion phones shipped, 3 billion subscribers, 3 trillion SMSs - I’m sure you recognise them. Obviously, these are all important and impressive achievements and should be applauded.However, the indu…

Over the last 6 months there has been a quite spectacular explosion in interest in “greentech” in the mobile industry. I’m chairing a panel session on Friday on Green Base Stations, and numerous vendors have recently pitched me with energy-saving conce…

Based on my questioning a very small sample of 2 ardent iPhone users (my cousin and my father), the new early-release fring VoIP client is looking like a major winner. I had a play with it yesterday, and the interface looks impressive, and the voice qu…

I see that O2 UK is about to launch its 3G dongle service, aiming it primarily at its existing customers, and offering a discounted (but still high, especially for an 18 month contract) price.This maps onto developments elsewhere, for example by Hutchi…

Truphone has just raised a new round of financing - against a tough market for speculative investments in VoIP at the moment, it has to be said. However, the wording of the release, coupled with last week’s acquisition of SIM4Travel, indicates that VoI…

One of the interesting developments I’ve been tracking of late has been the tendency of equipment or silicon vendors to start getting directly involved in spectrum auctions, either through joint ventures, or with the intent to build out wholesale netwo…

Still at Telco 2.0, I’ve just seen a scarily wrong presentation from someone involved in mobile banking & payments. It really shows up how long-lasting some of the more egregious memes can be away from the coalface of mobile technology development….

Still at Telco 2.0, I’ve just seen a scarily wrong presentation from someone involved in mobile banking & payments. It really shows up how long-lasting some of the more egregious memes can be awey from the coalface of mobile technology development….

I’ve just watched a presentation at the Telco 2.0 event by a network vendor. Like many I’ve seen before, it asserted that the network would increasingly become “application aware” and behave differently according to what type of service a user is tryin…