Hand over your wallet, ummm, smartphone….

With the massive take-up of high value smartphones comes the inevitable surge in theft of these valued possessions. A report from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) claims that mobile phone theft is a “growing epidemic,” with more than 40 percent of...

Are smart meters really a smart move for smart CSPs?

There is a lot of talk about CSPs banking on the future growth of M2M services as a hedge against declining voice revenues and stressed data margins. Smart Grid and Smart Meters, in particular, keep cropping up as one such panacea, but it seems the utilities supplying...

Mobile OS – like deck chairs on the Titanic

The mobile handset world was a very different place pre-iPhone. Nokia was undisputed ‘king of the castle’, Sony Ericsson was snapping at its heels, Motorola was still a force, albeit fading, and Blackberry was the choice of those wanting to be good corporate citizens....

Reports reveal revenue leakage rising

Two very disturbing reports have come to light in the past week with regard to the state revenue leakage in telecoms operators worldwide. The first, from KPMG, sourced its information direct from CSPs globally and claims they expect revenue leakage to increase in the...

A new way to dump on Twitter

If you think that some tweets are a load of crap, particularly your own, then this is just the news you’ve been waiting for. An enterprising company in the USA (no surprises there), will take one or more feeds from your Twitter account and print those tweets on...

Sneaky congestion culprit hogging bandwidth

Those behind the scenes OS updates to smartphones may be using more bandwidth than we ever imagined, especially if they are released during peak network loads. Sarah Reedy from Light Reading Mobile examines the issue here.