In June, I participated in Digital Capital Week – ten days of sessions around digital media, social media, video games, the digital divide, and other varied and sundry topics.
One session dealt with broadband connectivity within Washington DC, an interesting and relevant topic in our nation’s capital. The panel consisted of someone from the CTO’s office of [...]
There is a lot of thinking about how our enterprise communications work and how today’s technology can improve the traditional costs and productivity challenges. And there are a lot of inefficiencies in our traditional voice communications for a lot of traditionally good reasons—that aren’t so meaningful today.
Much of our professional communication has moved to text-based [...]
Today, mobile devices in the U.S. are often tied to mobile operators exclusively or for a defined period of time. In the future this might change and consumers might be able to pick their mobile operator and then buy and use any phone they want. In Asia and Europe, the mobile telecommunications industry has always [...]
For many years now gamers have been dreaming of ultimate gaming portability and availability, but what does that mean exactly? From my point of view as a gamer, portability means being able to play my games whenever I want without having to lower my expectations for the quality of the games I can play when [...]
What is the biggest challenge any operator faces as it looks at deploying a new service? System integration and testing. Why is this such an obstacle? Think of all the touch points involved: devices, network infrastructure, application servers, billing and operations support infrastructure. Not to mention the challenge in figuring out the appeal of the [...]
Hmm, let’s see…I have been in this business long enough to remember that cell phones did not used to work everywhere. Does anybody else remember the mid 80s when roaming was almost impossible and cost more than your monthly service? Dating myself too much?…OK then do you remember the 90s in the US when you [...]