by Tony Poulos | Feb 9, 2011 | Blog
Nokia has been hitting the headlines in the past week, but not always for the right reasons. Firstly, speculation in the NewYork Times about an enhanced alliance with Microsoft (the first was announced back in 2009 but little came of it except that the Microsoft... by Tony Poulos | Feb 7, 2011 | Blog
My attention was drawn to an obscure article on the BuffaloNews.com website linking Verizon’s sizable lobbying budget ($9.3 million from 2006 -2009 to State and local government) to considerable subsidies ($614 million or $3.1 million per job) that the company is... by Tony Poulos | Feb 1, 2011 | Blog
Forget all about net neutrality, we’ve now seen the first real example of ‘net neutering’ with Egypt flicking the ‘kill switch’ on the internet. How terrible, how frightening, how undemocratic, how primitive in this day and age – I hear you ask? Hang on a... by Tony Poulos | Feb 1, 2011 | Blog
The biggest fear of one new LTE operator is that the industry will fall into the same trap as with 3G – devaluing the new service from day one. Mark Liversidge, CMO of Hong Kong’s CSL, was one of the keynote speakers at the TM Forum’s Management World Asia... by Tony Poulos | Jan 25, 2011 | Blog
I had almost given up hope that someone was going take a stand against the FCC’s Net Neutrality rules that were announced purposefully in the midst of the holiday season. It took a while but Verizon has made the first move in challenging what was starting to look like... by Tony Poulos | Jan 19, 2011 | Blog
Are we seeing the beginning of a fightback from ISPs tired of carrying heavy traffic loads from ‘over-the-top’ freeloaders, or is it just a case of ‘smoke and mirrors’. The first volley came from Comcast aimed at Level 3, one of the largest Internet backbones in the...