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Warning! Dumb Pipe or Dumb Cloud, Same Danger
Terrified of a dumb pipe future, telecom operators have lemminged to the Cloud. The awful truth: Telcos have just replaced one big problem with another. For the majority, generic, ‘dumb’ cloud services...
View ArticleDeutsche Telekom’s Plan C?
It’s the Christmas present that neither Deutsche Telekom nor AT&T wanted and one that has surprised very few. Industry rumour mills about this outcome had circulated for months and had rapidly...
View ArticleCongrats Vodafone, but heed Groucho Marx
It’s about time for a shakeup. And for a mere £1 billion (US$1.7 billion) in cash, Vodafone may pull it off. If successful, its bid for Cable & Wireless Worldwide creates nothing less than a new...
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Telstar and the Bell System’s Forgotten Anniversary
If you watched Wimbledon’s epic showdown live on television, then you have Telstar to thank. Launched 50 years ago, the Telstar-1 satellite, brainchild of Bell Labs, made international live...
View ArticleAT&T Boldly Enters Home Security Market with Digital Life
One of the more ambitious and promising initiatives announced at CES was AT&T’s Digital Life. As the flagship announcement at AT&T Developer Summit, Digital LIfe is an application and services...
View ArticleImproved traffic distribution indicates that operators are starting to manage...
There are likely to be a few last-minute adjustments to slides before this year’s Mobile World Congress, given that the industry’s most popular traffic forecasts were downgraded. Last week, Cisco...
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Telcos and APIs: Got an Ology?
British Telecom TV ads of the ‘80s are fondly remembered. Their star, suburban housewife Beattie (geddit?), encouraged a nation to talk. In one famous ad, Beattie comforts her hapless grandson about...
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