by Tony Poulos | Apr 20, 2011 | Blog
Singapore regulator, the Infocomm Development Agency (IDA), recently introduced a series of bold, even radical, measures to protect local mobile service consumers. The usual suspects – premium rate services (PRS) and data roaming featured, but IDA also launched... by Tony Poulos | Apr 15, 2011 | Blog
Consumers now have a voice through social networking, and it can be a very loud voice indeed. Any industry that ignores its power, including the telecoms industry, does so at its own peril. Just as social networking is playing an ever-increasing role in national... by Tony Poulos | Apr 13, 2011 | Blog
Despite all the hooha about ‘net neutrality’ rules launched by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just before Christmas, the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday not only voted against them but also brought into question the FCC’s ability to regulate how... by Tony Poulos | Apr 7, 2011 | Blog
And so it begins, the forecast rationalization of the mobile industry. Maybe not as grand as the T-Mobile/AT&T proposed merger, the takeover of fixed-mobile operator in the Philippines, Digitel, by The Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), is a sign... by Tony Poulos | Apr 4, 2011 | Blog
Pssst, wanna buy some Lindens? How about some virtual gold? Hundi and Hawala have great conversion rates just now, don’t miss out! Welcome to the exciting new world of virtual money laundering. In case you are not aware, Linden dollars and virtual gold are types of... by Tony Poulos | Mar 29, 2011 | Blog
You will no doubt recall that soon after it was apparent to Nokia that Apple’s wildly successful iPhone was going to impact its potential earnings it instigated legal proceedings against Apple for infringing no less than ten Nokia patents on mobile phone technology....