Remember Nokia?

I can remember the days when solid corporations could withstand economic up and downs for decades going from strength to strength. This was and era when shareholders considered ‘blue chips’ a solid long term investment – and they usually were. However, times...

Facebook looking to work with telcos

Facebook’s Director of Online Operations for EMEA, Colm Long, says telcos should be thinking about building great applications, such as games and competitions. He notes: “you can do everything you can do on a website on an application, the difference is...

Facebook and Finance – friends or foes?

It’s not often that leading figures from one industry care to enter the inner sanctum of another to lay out some home truths. It happened twice this week in Dublin at TM Forum’s Management World and it got me thinking. Read more……

Data plans – have we got it wrong?

Rumors of the death of ‘all you can eat’ (AYCE) plans may be a little premature and the reasons for their imminent resurgence may surprise you. We all know that they were first introduced to encourage mobile subscribers to start utilizing the data...

Capitalizing on globalizing

There is no question that SingTel should be overjoyed by the performance of its Australian property, Optus. It’s like the good old days for Australia’s number two telecommunications company which posted a 19 percent increase in fourth-quarter net profit from a rise in...