From burning platform to sinking ship….

The Nokia rumor mill is running hot again. This time Reuters is asking the same question we were all asking over year ago – will Microsoft buy out (or bail out) Nokia if things continue along their current path. When he took over the reins, CEO Stephen Elop likened...

Apple on way to becoming an MVNO?

“Apple will provide wireless service directly to its iPad and iPhone customers. First, Apple will sell data packages bundled with iPads. Then it will sell data and international roaming plans to iPhone customers through the iTunes Store. And in time — sooner than many...

Data revenues are up, but at what cost?

Could this be a sign that data is actually starting to pay for itself? Sprint Nextel, the third largest mobile operator in the USA, has reported that its customers are spending more on data plans than they did a year ago. In fact, the average monthly customer bill was...

Wi-Fi invented in Australia – and that's not all!

Australia has claimed many firsts in its relatively short history. Some you have probably never heard of, many you wouldn’t care about such as the invention of the world’s first rotating, height-adjustable outdoor clothes drying device called a Hills Hoist or the...

IT failures loom large

It’s a sobering statistic: nearly 70 per cent of IT projects fail in some important way, putting the economic impact worldwide at three trillion dollars, which corresponds to 4.7 per cent of global GDP. This, according to a two-part report published by ZDNet, affects...

1.9 trillion reasons to stop griping

According to telecom analyst firm, Ovum, a recovery in both fixed and mobile sectors allowed service provider revenues to exceed the US$1.91 trillion mark in 2011, up from $1.79 trillion in 2010. Not surprisingly, with all those NBNs and 4G/LTE network rollouts, CapEx...