Can the big boys play keep Apple at bay?

NFC, or near field communications technology, should be a raging success outside of Korea and Japan, but it simply is not. Despite efforts by the GSMA to get the ball rolling with CSPs worldwide and the finance and transport industries agreeing on the profound...

Growing pains not always gains

CSPs facing the challenge of home market saturation, increased competition and lower margins have a number of options to take up in order to improve shareholder value. Cutting costs brings the fastest results both to bottom line and share price, but it’s not always...

Privacy vs Protection at what price?

I’m almost embarrassed to admit that I was starting to believe that telecoms regulators around the world were relaxing their draconian grip on an industry that has, for the most part, been ‘deregulated’ in some form or another for best part of thirty years. Before you...

Ban the BlackBerry Bandwagon Begins

The ‘ban the Blackberry bandwagon’ is on a roll  but you can’t help thinking it’s getting a little political and out of hand. After my blog on the subject earlier in the week I received a number of emails telling me that the national security arguments made by UAE and...

BlackBerry ban a very thorny issue

The United Arab Emirates has outlined plans to block BlackBerry email, messaging and Web browsing services, citing a potential security threat because encrypted data sent on the devices is moved abroad where it cannot be monitored for illegal activity. The decision...