tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593715699677779653Wed, 04 Sep 2024 11:36:35 +0000"US Telecom Industry""Telecom Providers"CTIAFCCGoogleenpocket"Click Through Rate""Europe Telecom Market""Future of Telecom""Mobile Advertising""Mobile Marketing Association""Mobile Services Industry"700 MHzATTAndroidGartnerIPTVMMAMMSNokiaOviPush/Pull methodSMSWAP"Aloha Partners""Android SDK""Android develepor community""Andy Rubin""DSL Forum""GSM World""Nokia Q3 Results""Opinion 3G"12 MHz70/70 ruleAuction 73Cable OperatorsGoogle PhoneGphoneIPTV OfferingsMobile VoIPOpen Handset AlliancePay-TVSpectrumTelefonicaTruphoneUS telecom futureUverseVOIPVerizonWi-FiWiMAXdumb pipesfalling ARPUiPhonemarket penetrationmarket sharerevenuesatellite TVsmart devicestelecom 2008 predictionstelecom operatorsvideo servicesTalks, opinions and news about the latest technological and business trends in wireless, mobile, cable, broadband and IP-convergence markets.http://telnect.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Manish Singh)Blogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593715699677779653.post-1691519043751070627Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:31:00 +00002011-01-15T11:34:45.824-08:00dumb pipesfalling ARPUsmart devicestelecom operatorsAs a new system evolves over a period of time, it expands. Over time, it becomes so huge that it's no longer self-contained small system. In fact, it becomes an eco-system. In business context, if a firm was initially a part of that small system, it may find itself too stretched out in order to cover the whole eco-system. It may lose its strategic focus and would rather become an assorted list http://telnect.blogspot.com/2011/01/whats-wrong-with-being-dumb-pipe.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Manish Singh)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593715699677779653.post-6627677807252708917Wed, 26 Dec 2007 01:17:00 +00002007-12-26T07:53:10.143-08:00"Future of Telecom"telecom 2008 predictionsUS telecom futureHere is what, I believe, year 2008 will look like. Let me know what do you think about the future for 2008 for telecom?1. The launch of iPhone SDK will not be as great as the developer community expects! It will provide very limited flexibility to create new applications. In fact, apple might sell the SDK. Or, the applications created will need to be approved by apple first before they can run onhttp://telnect.blogspot.com/2007/12/my-optimism-for-year-2008.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Manish Singh)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593715699677779653.post-5178286751144525594Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:51:00 +00002007-12-19T21:06:26.607-08:00"Android develepor community""Android SDK"AndroidGoogleAfter the first month of shakedown and hands-on coding experience, Android platform seems to have brought a lot of disappointment to the developer community. A news agency reported today that the developers are suffering with inadequate documentation, big holes in code and absence of some basic functionality. It was also reported that Google is not being very responsive to the issues submitted. http://telnect.blogspot.com/2007/12/android-suffers-with-early-blows-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Manish Singh)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593715699677779653.post-6143696002159756607Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:40:00 +00002007-11-14T17:39:54.224-08:0070/70 ruleCable OperatorsFCCvideo servicesThe dominance of cable operators in video services market suddenly got limelight after NYTimes ran a story speculating that Federal Communication Commission may strangle the existing cable companies by opening up the market to rival video services and independent programs. Even worse, Mr. Kevin J. Martin, the chairman of Commission, hopes to complete this controversial decision before this year http://telnect.blogspot.com/2007/11/cable-operators-strangled-advantage.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Manish Singh)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593715699677779653.post-4278444859885858750Thu, 08 Nov 2007 04:47:00 +00002007-11-08T07:50:06.457-08:00"Andy Rubin""US Telecom Industry"AndroidGoogleGoogle PhoneGphoneOpen Handset AllianceFinally, the announcement (login required) of Android and Open Handset Alliance has put an end to all the speculations and rumors around the Google phone. Mr. Andy Robin, Director for Google Mobile Operations, quoted on Google official blog that this launch is more significant and ambitious than that of Google phone. As for now, his claim seems to be very right.For the last ten years, Google has http://telnect.blogspot.com/2007/11/googlization-of-telecom-industry.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Manish Singh)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593715699677779653.post-2792740936206873935Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:15:00 +00002007-11-06T13:07:06.910-08:00"Future of Telecom""Mobile Services Industry""Opinion 3G""US Telecom Industry"Mobile phones are destined to be tiny and no matter what technology goes in them they will still remain small. Sounds pretty trivial, yup..it is. Though this fact seems very very obvious, most of the companies are missing it by a margin and investing in a future that will never dawn in reality.Somehow, the perception of an ideal mobile phone is a device which will let a user do everything that http://telnect.blogspot.com/2007/10/mobile-phone-will-be-mobile-phones.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Manish Singh)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593715699677779653.post-4853475752778185012Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:34:00 +00002007-10-25T21:22:28.202-07:00"Click Through Rate""Mobile Advertising""Mobile Marketing Association""Telecom Providers""US Telecom Industry"CTIAenpocketMMAMMSPush/Pull methodSMSWAPMike Baker, CEO of Enpocket, in one of its articles talks about the three possible ways of mobile advertising - SMS, MMS and WAP (http for mobile phones). SMS, which has primarily been popular in Europe and Asia, has recently gained serious momentum in North America. In the last 2 years, total SMS messages sent has increased 4 times from 7 billion to 28 billion per month. Also, unlike MMS and WAPhttp://telnect.blogspot.com/2007/10/mobile-advertising-22.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Manish Singh)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593715699677779653.post-3014051761006581967Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:13:00 +00002007-10-25T21:21:45.180-07:00"Click Through Rate""Mobile Advertising""Mobile Marketing Association""Telecom Providers""US Telecom Industry"CTIAenpocketMMAMMSPush/Pull methodSMSWAPIt's not that unrealistic a dream I guess - a dream to live in an advertisement free world. Where it somehow dawns upon us from time to time: what services we want and which products to use, but just for that we don't have to go through the undesired ritual of watching ads, which keep showing up one after the other ruthlessly irrespective of the emotional turmoil of the viewer who is flipping http://telnect.blogspot.com/2007/10/mobile-advertising-in-north-america.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Manish Singh)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593715699677779653.post-6358981680035098650Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:50:00 +00002007-10-19T07:45:31.086-07:00"Nokia Q3 Results""US Telecom Industry"enpocketNokiaOviThe strong third quarter results of Nokia portrays the continuous dominance of mobile phone maker giant on the world telecom market. The profit soared by 85% to €1.56 billion from €0.85 billion. The company believes that around a billion cell phones were sold in year 2007 and Nokia sold 39% of them, up 4% from last year. Nokia expects that the mobile device market volume will be approximately 1.1http://telnect.blogspot.com/2007/10/strong-third-quarter-results-of-nokia.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Manish Singh)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593715699677779653.post-1487618125478193198Sun, 14 Oct 2007 03:13:00 +00002007-10-13T23:08:09.373-07:00"GSM World""Mobile Services Industry""Telecom Providers""US Telecom Industry"NokiaOviTelefonicaOn August 29, 2007, Nokia unleashed its ambitious plan to offer mobile services under the umbrella of brand name Ovi. As the photograph of the presentation by Mr. CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, President and CEO of Nokia, says it all - Devices are simply not enough.Under Ovi umbrella, Nokia plans to unroll a fleet of internet based services in the next coming months. Nokia has started with the basic http://telnect.blogspot.com/2007/10/nokia-ovi-tough-door-to-open.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Manish Singh)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593715699677779653.post-839636268703550985Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:58:00 +00002007-10-10T22:00:46.088-07:00"Aloha Partners""Europe Telecom Market""US Telecom Industry"12 MHz700 MHzATTAuction 73FCCGoogleVerizonOnly a couple of days ago, I wrote about the much talked auction of 700 MHz spectrum. While everyone in the industry is waiting to see who is going to get those channels and how much are these going to cost, AT&T, surprising everyone (especially Verizon), closed a deal with Aloha Partners purchasing spectrum licenses in the 700 MHz frequency band for $2.5 Billion.AT&T bought 12 MHz of http://telnect.blogspot.com/2007/10/only-couple-of-days-ago-i-wrote-about.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Manish Singh)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593715699677779653.post-2882095764644729763Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:49:00 +00002007-10-10T19:08:04.222-07:00"Europe Telecom Market""US Telecom Industry"GartneriPhoneIPTVMobile VoIPTruphoneVOIPWi-FiWiMAXThat day is not far when subscribers will be able to make VoIP calls from iPhone. The real question not whether iPhone will ever come out with an idea to provide VoIP services but eventually when and how much will it cost? A business plan to launch the VoIP services for individuals and house holds, though seems to be blurred in a distant future, is now clearly visible on the horizon of the next http://telnect.blogspot.com/2007/10/voip-over-iphone.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Manish Singh)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593715699677779653.post-5887937940820998841Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:21:00 +00002007-10-09T18:28:48.549-07:00"DSL Forum""US Telecom Industry"ATTGartnerIPTVIPTV Offeringsmarket penetrationmarket sharePay-TVsatellite TVUverseAccording to a report pubished by DSL Forum, the number of people using IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) services has increased by 179% in the 12 months to June, 2007 worldwide. The number grew from 2.9 million to 8.2 million subscribers. Europe added over three million subscribers in the 12 months to 30 June 2007, making it the strongest market both in terms of growth (231 per cent in 12 months) and http://telnect.blogspot.com/2007/10/according-to-report-pubished-by-dsl.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Manish Singh)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593715699677779653.post-1796354736253038658Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:45:00 +00002007-10-10T22:05:41.252-07:00"US Telecom Industry"700 MHzCTIAFCCrevenueSpectrumWith the auction of 700 MHz spectrum less than three months away, the competition is expected to be fierce than ever. The auction will start on January 24, 2008 and the money collected should reach to U.S. Treasury no later than end of June, 2008. The spectrum was previously used by Broadband Analog TV Broadcasters, but now the ownership will be transferred to government by end of 2009.In a http://telnect.blogspot.com/2007/10/700-mhz-spectrum.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Manish Singh)1