Overtime for answering email out of hours?
Brazil passed a law last month that allowed workers to ask for overtime if they answered emails outside of working hours. Could this be the last nail in the coffin for BlackBerry, after all, what self-respecting boss would willingly supply a BlackBerry to someone who will demand overtime for using it? And what about Twitter use? [...]
Pricing power – telcos only data play
Ovum’s Nicole McCormick outlines why mobile operators are having to use pricing to protect their data revenues.
LTE rollout reality
CSL Hong Kong CTO Christian Daigneault is forthcoming about the challenges faced in rolling out a world-beating LTE/DC-HSPA hybrid network in this interview with Tony Poulos.
Greek Economics 101
From the country that brought us philosophy, democracy, ouzo and language (all the previous words are Greek), comes some economic theory to bring Greece and Europe out of the economic doldrums. It’s doing the rounds via email but it is so brilliant in its simplicity I felt it worth sharing here. It is a slow [...]
RCR Wireless talks with Tony Poulos
RCR Wireless got the chance to talk to Tony Poulos (Market Strategist, TM Forum) at TM Forum’s Management World 2011 in Orlando.
Let’s cut ‘em off at the pass, Tonto!
Paranoia reached new heights with news out today that a US government committee has launched a full investigation into the potential security threat of Chinese telecom equipment companies operating in the United States. TelecomAsia reports that the House permanent select committee on intelligence (HPSCI) said in a statement that a preliminary 10-month review of Huawei [...]
Telenor targets services in Asia
Telenor’s Sissel Henriette Larsen outlines how important services and its Viking roots are to its drive into Asian mobile markets.
More FCC BS – Bill Shock syndrome strategy
“Wireless carriers agree to end bill shock” declared the CNNMoney headlines, “those surprise overage charges on your wireless bill will soon be a thing of the past.” Oh really! The story was either written by an extreme optimist or someone who knows very little about the machinations of carrier billing or customer behavior. Despite the [...]
RIM, on the edge of a precipice?
Poor old Research In Motion (RIM), purveyor of the once mercurial BlackBerry, are finding the going tough these days, and it looks like getting a lot tougher! To add to its recent less than scintillating sales performance, market percentage loss and failure of new models and iPad competitor such as the BlackBook to make any [...]
What Steve Jobs has taught the telecoms industry.
OK, enough is enough. We all know Steve Jobs has resigned as Apple CEO and we’ve been inundated with stories and theories about what will happen at Apple in his absence. My personal favorite headline of the last week was ‘Jobs exit opens door for nimble Apple rivals’ and from Reuters, no less! What nimble [...]