by Tony Poulos | May 27, 2011 | Blog
It’s not often that leading figures from one industry care to enter the inner sanctum of another to lay out some home truths. It happened twice this week in Dublin at TM Forum’s Management World and it got me thinking. Read more…… by Tony Poulos | May 27, 2011 | Blog
Rumors of the death of ‘all you can eat’ (AYCE) plans may be a little premature and the reasons for their imminent resurgence may surprise you. We all know that they were first introduced to encourage mobile subscribers to start utilizing the data... by Tony Poulos | May 13, 2011 | Blog
There is no question that SingTel should be overjoyed by the performance of its Australian property, Optus. It’s like the good old days for Australia’s number two telecommunications company which posted a 19 percent increase in fourth-quarter net profit from a rise in... by Tony Poulos | May 12, 2011 | Blog
I have been watching, with some fascination, the different takes on the Microsoft acquisition of Skype. In an interview on CNBC Steve Ballmer stressed heavily the growing role of Microsoft in the communications space as he dominated six of the seven minutes allocated... by Tony Poulos | May 10, 2011 | Blog
The rumor mill has been running overtime this last week in the telecoms industry. Perhaps the most prominent, and certainly the most vocal are those claiming that Skype is about to be acquired – AGAIN! You will remember back in October 2005 that Skype’s private... by Tony Poulos | May 9, 2011 | Blog
Intense competition in the telecoms space has become the norm since the heady days of deregulation and arrival of wireless networks. Firstly between competing technologies such of CDMA and GSM and then with the intense battle for handset dominance that made Motorola,...