Mobile phones to blow your mind!

The perennial doomsters warning against mobile phone usage and links to brain damage have raised their ugly heads (no pun intended), once again.  This time it is no less than the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) which has found that 50 minutes of...

Too little, too late for Vodafone Oz?

When embattled Australian mobile operator, Vodafone Australia (VHA) experienced major network issues late last year its CEO told the market it was due to ‘temporary software bugs’. When its customers rallied behind one Adam Brimo who set up a website to vent his...

Vodafone Australia woes

Reprint of article that appeared in Telecom Asia Feb 15, 2011: When a telco hits the headlines it is usually bad press. When it brushes aside the issues raised and comes up with feeble excuses, it becomes the target of even more bad press and, in the case of Vodafone...

Rumblings from La Rambla

This is Barcelona week and you are probably fed up to the teeth with press releases and news emanating from this Catalonian stronghold. The Insider has spent a lot of time talking to delegates, press people and exhibitionists (I think that’s the right term for the...

Nokia escapes flames, now swimming to leaky life raft

The official Nokia blog says it is now official – Nokia is getting hitched to Microsoft! You have to love the joint announcement so soon after the so-called ‘leaked memo’ from Nokia CEO, and supposedly ex-Microsoft man, Stephen Elop. The rhetoric is pure...

Mobile advertising's money myth

During a webinar I presented on ‘monetizing bandwidth’ on Tuesday I played down the potential revenues mobile operators would see from mobile advertising. This was picked up during the Q&A session by a few attendees asking why, with all the press on the growing...