When I see reports like this one I have to step back, take a deep breath and say, “oh well” when it comes to speed tests, especially, those done for mobile phones. You see, not only are all speed tests not created equal. But for mobile, it’s a whole new ballgame as a series of … Read more

The telcos want to be in the banking business. Plain and simple. They are already in a “own the customer” relationship and with technology they can move money and credits around as fast as any bank. This recent move by Verizon for FiOS payments shows they don’t want to be paying fees when they can … Read more

The recent spat of announcements and coverage about lower calling rates from just about everyone recently all reminds me of the calling card era. Sure there’s a market for that, and a need, but candidly, rates may matters to the price conscious consumer but not those who are already in the know. It’s what you … Read more

Mobilze has LaunchPad. ITExpo has Startup Camp Communications. CTIA has the Showcase. Each of these events has new companies that are innovating and pushing the bounds of what was impossible a few years ago, and is now possible today. Who said innovation was dead? Who said there were no new ideas? All of these events … Read more

I’ve looked at the calendar and am just amazed at what’s happening in a seven day period on the west coast. Between GigaOm’s Mobilize on September 30th in San Francisco, IT Expo starting on Monday October 3rd in L.A., CTIA happening in San Francisco, starting on the 4th, and Wireless Health 2010 happening in San … Read more

Someone has the right idea in Italy with their prepaid data prices. Wireless Moves reports that for as little as nine Euros you can find data access on the go with mobile network operator, WIND. For 20 Euros you can get 10 GB of data in a month. When you do the conversions that roughly … Read more

Oovoo, Skype, SightSpeed and now Tandberg with the release of Movi 4.0 are all working to make multi-party video happen on the desktop. Tandberg, Lifesize and others are working to connect the enterprise with desktop HD systems. Then there are companies like IOMEET and Vidyo which is the cloud approach of hosted and managed video … Read more

Back in 2006 I helped build awareness around GrandCentral, now GoogleVoice. For me it was deja vu as I’d been a Webley/Comunikate user since almost when it started back in the late 90s, and had been using all kinds unified communications tools along the way. For me services like AT&T CallVantage, Vonage, PhoneGnome and just … Read more

Om’s post on T-Mobile not really embracing UMA and their move to make Wal-Mart an MVNO tells me a few things. 1. UMA is tied/was tied to the T-Mobile Hotspot initiative. Since they are pretty much out of that business other than in some airports and hotels, it’s not a priority. 2. Without UMA when … Read more