iPad or iHammer – another nail in the CSP coffin?

Apple’s worst kept secret in years has been officially revealed and has received a mixture of ‘wows’ and ‘ho-hums’ from every conceivable quarter but for the service provider world it could be yet another nail in the revenue coffin. Don’t be fooled for one minute with...

The smartphone will become the searchphone, and?

Have you ever read something that is so obvious you wonder why you hadn’t thought if it yourself?  After reading a newly released list of 2010 Predictions from Deloitte for the coming year in our industry, you come away wondering why you’re not charging $1,500 an hour...

Telco bashing alive and well in Australia

According to research done for The Sun-Herald newspaper in Australia, consumers are paying the highest prices in the world for text messages, reportedly more than 10 times what it costs in many parts of Asia and almost a third higher than in Europe and Canada. An...

Who said telecommunications was boring?

It’s Friday, and here’s some interesting and sometimes bizarre news generated from our own industry sector. Enjoy… French campaign to abolish piracy caught pirating The French agency tasked with enforcing strict anti-piracy regulations has been left...

Hang on to your hats!

Indications are that we are emerging from ‘the recession we had to have’.  If that’s truly the case then 2010 could be quite a year for telecommunications investment in infrastructure and systems. According to IDC, two themes will dominate events in...

Rumours vs Reality – predictions 'slated' here

The world’s news portals are awash with stories about electronic book readers (eReaders), tablet PCs and a top-secret device, supposedly called the iSlate, coming from Apple.  So strong are the Apple rumours that competitors have been rushing their own iSlate killers...