Vodafone Australia woes

Reprint of article that appeared in Telecom Asia Feb 15, 2011: When a telco hits the headlines it is usually bad press. When it brushes aside the issues raised and comes up with feeble excuses, it becomes the target of even more bad press and, in the case of Vodafone...

Cisco on the MOVE

Cisco’s Jeff White announces the launch of strategic framework for mobile operators that includes the Videoscape experience, Adaptive Intelligent Routing and an outdoor Wi-Fi antenna that manages 3G and 4G offloads on the wifi network.

Rumblings from La Rambla

This is Barcelona week and you are probably fed up to the teeth with press releases and news emanating from this Catalonian stronghold. The Insider has spent a lot of time talking to delegates, press people and exhibitionists (I think that’s the right term for the...

Nokia escapes flames, now swimming to leaky life raft

The official Nokia blog says it is now official – Nokia is getting hitched to Microsoft! You have to love the joint announcement so soon after the so-called ‘leaked memo’ from Nokia CEO, and supposedly ex-Microsoft man, Stephen Elop. The rhetoric is pure...