I recall once having a cigar with the founder of Free at Atelier Berger, on Rue Berger in Paris one rainy night back in 2006. As a disruptive force in telecom they have clearly been that in France. Now they have 3G spectrum, which can’t be good news for Orange and SFR.
Om has a meme on why O2/Telefonica wants to buy Jajah. The answer is Voype.
Give Charlie Stross a read on his well authored post on his blog, Charlie’s Diary. My take is simply this. If you have GoogleVoice in calling party pays environment, you can eliminate a large monthly base mobile bill for unlimited minutes, because every call is received back to you after being triggered by the data … Read more
I woke up this morning to what will be big news for anyone who knows Pat Phelan. Love, hate him, be his friend, or his competitor, but this news can only be viewed as a very self-serving decision by Pat. As part of an overall slimming down, to focus more on what’s important to him, … Read more
Master analyst, Dean Bubley, has penned a post glancing into the new year about the winners and losers. Since I know Dean well, I’m not at all surprised at most of his observations.
To my friend Om, Happy # 8. Andy
When the email arrived, I got giddy. My head spun and the world turned all the colors of the rainbow. Amazon Web Services launch Cloudfront is a web based streaming and content delivery network that democratizes the whole game in a new and different way. As I read the teaser and visited the site, I … Read more
Let’s face it, the idea of WiFi by the major mobile operators in the USA has been more trial and error, or when they chose to explore it, for the most part it was more like seeing someone dip their toes in the water in the past, as in reality only T-Mobile and to some … Read more
I can hear the music video now, playing in my head. The song is from The seminal New Wave band of the 70’s, The Talking Heads, and it’s “Burning Down the House” as the AT&T network goes down in tatters all around a bunch of stunned and wide eyed executives in Dallas and Atlanta. Start … Read more
I’m sitting on the tarmac at London Heathrow for what is the last flight for me this year out of London’s largest airport. I’m connected with my Novatel Wireless MiFi 2352. It’s 3G and I made a Skype call from my MacBook Pro using client FreeTalk’s Everyman headset as the person I needed to call … Read more
