by Tony Poulos | Feb 9, 2016 | Blog
It seems no matter what network operators do to have the most up-to-date infrastructure in place, provide the fastest speeds imaginable and offer the best services they can lay their hands on – if a network fails for one minute it all comes to naught. The latest... by Tony Poulos | Aug 1, 2013 | Blog
So, it seems Google’s foray into WiFi provisioning leaps from ‘experiments’ in two US cities to helium-filled balloons over New Zealand and now to the sacrosanct coffee temples of Starbucks, all 7,000 of them in the USA. Are alarm bills ringing yet amongst network... by Tony Poulos | Jan 23, 2013 | Blog
No doubt, you have all heard about the brilliant ‘software developer’, dubbed Bob, at a US-based critical infrastructure company that outsourced his job to China, but fell foul of his employer. To recap, this family man in his 40s hired developers in China to do his... by Tony Poulos | Mar 4, 2010 | Blog
Revenue is largely disconnected from the cost model. This was a recurring theme at this week’s Management World Middle East, held in Dubai. Mobile subscribers, in particular, had been encouraged to take up ‘all you can eat’ data plans in order to stimulate data... by Tony Poulos | Feb 23, 2010 | Blog
What do you do when you build a multi-million dollar, state of the art HSPA mobile network from scratch and it keeps falling over? It’s no use asking Telecom New Zealand CEO, Paul Reynolds, because he doesn’t know either! His lauded XT network, commissioned only last...