Something smells fishy at Finnish phone maker

You are probably bored to tears reading about Nokia and its current woes, and The Insider is certainly getting bored writing about its spiraling demise, but now the ‘conspiracy theorists’ are sticking their bib in it’s getting interesting again. Depending on which of...

Code of conduct to kill 'bill shock' – really?

A new mandatory code of compliance designed as ‘a rulebook for telcos’ has been introduced in Australia, primarily to stem the number of ‘bill shock’ cases and complaints about misleading advertising and confusing plans. The far-reaching code will affect all CSPs in...

WAC gone where, why?

Depending which way you look at it, the GSMA led Wholesale Applications Community (WAC) has either been a great success, or an abject failure. Set up to challenge and take advantage of the remarkable success of handset maker application stores and unite the fragmented...

Whatever happened to the five nines?

Every time a major cloud services provider has a problem it creates a field day for the press and doomsayers that want to bag Cloud at every opportunity. Why the preoccupation with Cloud one can only guess, but it is very much part of the telecoms and business world,...

Facebook follows Google playing telco, worried?

It may be a little premature to say Facebook is becoming a telco, as Commsday has, but its latest investment activity could be cause for alarm or joy, depending on how existing telcos see it. Facebook has just announced investment in a 10,000 km Asian undersea cable...

Is this the telco industry's new 'front man'?

It is finally getting through to the telco C-suite – innovate and unite, or suffer the consequences. The message came loud and clear (as reported by European Communications) when Cambridge Wireless chairman Dr David Cleevely, addressing the recent 2012 Future of...