What ever happened to 'fair' trade?

1 on the telecommunications industry. I mentioned in a recent blog that governments and the regulators they control seem to be living in a past age when all telecommunications companies were government owned monopolies. Yes, we all know those old arguments about...

CSP gives itself 'bill shock'

Australian CSP, Telstra, incurred as much as AU$90 million (US$80 million) in bad debts in its past financial year, caused largely by customers that disputed and didn’t pay expensive bills. Chief financial officer John Stanhope told an analyst meeting in Sydney...

It's official: 'bill shock' is dangerous for your health!

It’s official, ‘bill shock’ can cause untimely death. At least that’s what Thai CSP, TrueMove, says. As a roaming customer of TrueMove I was trying to activate my voicemail service whilst in France. After negotiating the TrueMove website, that changes regularly from...

Is cloud security really behind Intel acquisition?

Funny how some news stories are viewed differently. This week’s big IT headline was that Intel had bought McAfee for a massive $7.68 billion, but depending where you read about the story took on multiple personas. There is no doubt that the acquisition underlines...