Years ago when I was working in sports and arena management I first heard of the city of Milton Keynes in the UK when the parent company I was working for received the management contract for the new venue. It was the first major arena to be built in the UK in many years. Now … Read more
I call it Craze Jumping. You know, when a concept becomes hot, jump in. That’s what Logitech is up to as the are (re) introducing a line of VoIP products according to Let’s Go Digital, a UK based online mag for digital lifestyle folks like moi. I’ve always found Logitech products to be well designed, … Read more
I’m on a semi-vacation so blogging until Tuesday will only be if a story needs attention.
Boingo, one of the larger hot spot aggregators in the USA has raised a whopping Series C round of $65 million dollars. Clearly on a growth spurt, Boingo will be a crucial part of the Fixed Mobile Convergence world in my mind as their footprint and roaming ability will make it easy for users to … Read more
Boingo, one of the larger hot spot aggregators in the USA has raised a whopping Series C round of $65 million dollars. Clearly on a growth spurt, Boingo will be a crucial part of the Fixed Mobile Convergence world in my mind as their footprint and roaming ability will make it easy for users to … Read more
8×8, the company behind Packet 8 has of late been on a roll when it comes to patents, and today announced they have been awarded a patent for what appears to cover what an ATA does. If this is indeed what the patent covers, then the folks at Cisco, who first licensed, then had Linksys … Read more
If you’re in the VoIP business and the cable systems aren’t part of your sales roadmap, then you’re going to be on the short end of the stick in the long run. Take a look at the post over at IP & Democracy and read it closely. The cable MSOs are ramping and clearly winning … Read more
MVNO’s are seeing slow growth according to a report from Strategy Analytics. This is all a result of the continual “Me Too, Me Also” approach that the MVNO’s are taking, largely dictated by the host network operator’s on deck applictions set. The Off Deck market is where the action is, and the first MVNO to … Read more
I found Richard’s write up interesting. The “forwarding” or dual number solution to make fixed mobile convergence work in Germany is in my mind a short term way to exploit the idea of FMC. Seamless handover, with one number, and where the IP-WLAN connection appearing as a roaming network to the HLR is the really … Read more
Om says Katie has made VoIP calls on the new Google Network in Mountain View, CA. I guess this is one way to increase traffic in downtown Mountain View as the local early adopters will rush to the bevy of coffee shops and fine dining establishments, laptop and PDA en hand to try it out…I … Read more
