by Tony Poulos | Jun 29, 2009 | Blog
What do AsiaPac’s mobile alliances and secret societies have in common? Lots, it seems. Most people have never heard of either and their effect and benefit to the community must be questionable, at best. Telco alliances, are the antithesis of their airline... by Tony Poulos | Jun 29, 2009 | Blog
The constant stream of analyst predictions about the rise in mobile advertising may finally be coming true if a recent on the Japanese market is any indication. Japan’s five commercial analogue TV networks are reporting falling revenues from the usual causes including... by Tony Poulos | Jun 24, 2009 | Blog
What do you when you turn off of your computer and modem and still manage to receive a bill for 30 to 88MB internet usage per day over a three day period? How about being billed for 73GB over a five hour period when your connection is not physically capable of doing... by Tony Poulos | Jun 23, 2009 | Blog
Australians, long known for having the ‘gift of the gab’ (good talkers) are changing their habits and becoming a nation of prolific ‘SMSers’, according to Telstra’s State of the Nation Report. The report, which canvased 1,201 Aussies in May, investigated the use of... by Tony Poulos | Jun 22, 2009 | Blog
There appears to be nothing more emotive than stories involving billing anomalies by telecommunications companies. They invariably become a public relations disaster fort he company involved by invoking public sympathy against the telco. Telstra in Australia must be... by Tony Poulos | Jun 16, 2009 | Blog
Structural or operational? The separation debate rages on in Australia with the government, opposition and even Australia’s competition watchdog all making their opinions public. However, the most influential barracking against separation has come from a most unlikely... by Tony Poulos | Jun 16, 2009 | Blog
Billing used to be so important for telecoms service providers that it lived in its own domain with direct links to Finance and IT. But how times have changed. Billing has been banished back to the back room again where it’s just part of the broader BSS group.... by Tony Poulos | Jun 8, 2009 | Blog
There’s a very ugly monster lurking behind the smiley facade of social networking. It’s one that is viral and spreading worldwide and is reaching epidemic proportions. It has stimulated governments into action and created its own task force to battle its spread. ... by Tony Poulos | Jun 8, 2009 | Blog
If you want to study how NOT to roll out an effective telecommunications infrastructure in past years, you need look no further than India. In a country that had mastered the old British colonial art of creating unnecessary bureaucracy, rolling out new technology was... by Tony Poulos | Jun 8, 2009 | Blog
He’s barely through passport control but Sol Trujillo is making more headlines having left Telstra than he did whilst in charge. It seems that whatever is or has been wrong with the Australian incumbent operator over the last four years will be blamed squarely on Sol...