Andy Abramson Let’s face it, the business model that Earthlink and a few others took for Muni WiFi sucked wind in most places. San Francisco still doesn’t even have a test site. Chicago is wireless-less while other cities that pursued a different plan like Minneapolis all have seemed to at least deploy. I’ll admit in Philadelphia Earthlink … Read more
I’m very happy to read Dean Bubley’s post of Friday that describes in very easy to understand detail just why VoIP over 3G will be an exciting new path for communications. Last night I installed Skype on my real 3G handset from Verizon. A new Samsung i760 that’s based on Windows Mobile. The installation of … Read more
Jangl and Jajah struck a band aid like deal today that is a combination of marketing, technology and customer retention efforts. I call it a “band aid like deal” because of late the industry whispers about Jajah were that their numbers have been slowing down, and a lot of their usage has been mostly of … Read more
Om has a piece that talks about the slowdown in broadband. While some may immediately run out and dump their shares, worry about their job, or predict doom and gloom, I tend to want to look at what is causing the slowdown. 1) Not much new-The delivery of the Internet to peoples homes and businesses … Read more
Good news has come the way of client Truphone. Yesterday Dean Bubley’s market intelligence firm, Disruptive Analysis came out with a glowing report on the subject of Mobile VoIP over 3G and its very bright future. Now today, Truphone learned they have been shortlisted for the Red Herring 100 award. Here’s part of the official … Read more
A 210 page report on the subject of Voice over 3G has been published by Disruptive Analysis’ Dean Bubley. Based on what heard Dean speaking on at VON his insight and perspective will likely mean this is one report anyone in the industry who is looking to make money will want to read.
When clients are wronged it is always good to see the author make it right. Kudos to client Thomas Howe for presenting the facts in a blog post that enabled Ike Elliott to correct the error of his ways. And honorable mention to Ike for his owning up to the mistake and amplifying the facts. … Read more
Rich Tehrani projects a rumor about Google buying Sprint. I’m not so sure, not because Sprint isn’t in play, as they clearly are, but because there’s too much of a culture clash. Think of AOL buying Time Warner and where it ended up. A far better suitor is T-Mobile. Both are corporate in method of … Read more
The Guardian is one of the major newspapers in the UK and today’s story about the Apple iPhone has a familiar ring to it about the need to unlock it so VoiP apps and Skype can run on it for the benefit of the users. My feeling is, once the SDK and 3G iPhones come … Read more
Om Malik writes about the issues now impacting Comcast where it hurts. On Wall Street. Comcast is not getting love in too many places these days. The blogosphere, the customer and consumer forums, the Street so their most formidable competitor, Verizon is doing their part to smack, sting and irritate the cable giant. You will … Read more
