Facebook and Finance – friends or foes?

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……

Data plans – have we got it wrong?

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...

Capitalizing on globalizing

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...

Microsoft+Skype – a marriage made in xxxx?

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...

Skype swallowed up, who's next?

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...