Developing closer ties with the media sector has been a key strategic question for telecom service providers since the early 00s with the deployment of the earliest triple play bundles. Recently though the topic seems to have gained a new
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Android is not Windows
The European Commission declared today that it had sent a Statement of Objections to Google and its parent company Alphabet regarding the Android OS, accusing the Mountain View firm of abusing its dominant position by imposing restrictions on OEMs and
How Can Telcos Create Value for End-Users ?
I have written in the past about my fundamental dislike of Uber. In a nutshell, I don’t think Uber is particularly innovative, and I don’t think it would work if the industry they are attacking hadn’t been so behind
Not exactly Uber-innovative
Uber is, or at least was, until recently, presented as a paragon of innovation. The company is, we have read many times, revolutionizing the transportation for hire industry through radical innovation.
I’ve had an instinctive distate for Uber from the
Exetel’s Magical Cost Accounting
Towards the tail-end of last week, tech journalist Juha Saarinen reported how Australian ISP Exetel was going to terminate the contracts of 400 heavy using customers. This surprised me, because I don’t think that’s legal in most western markets, but
Is access competition enough to ensure Net Neutrality?
In an opinion piece published recently, The Economist argues that the Net Neutrality problem is really a competition problem. I have argued the same in the past. On paper, the argument makes sense.
If there is no underlying cost
The Disruptive Power of Wholesale Approaches
Steve Kamman’s blog Strong Views Lightly Held has come back to life. This is excellent news. Steve is both a top telecom market expert and a great disruptive thinker, a winning combination if you want to look at things a
Has Eircom unearthed a Pot of Gold?
Last week both the Fiberevolution blog and the Diffraction Analysis website crashed spectacularly, for which I apologise. It also means that I wasn’t able to comment this piece of news at the time of its release, but I think it’s
Is management T-Mobile USA’s layer of fat ?
There’s an article in French magazine Challenges this week about Iliad and T-Mobile. It’s entitled “How Iliad-Free bluffed the Americans” (in French). As usual with the business press, it doesn’t actually answer the question, and by and large
Can Iliad Succeed in the US Market?
A topic that I’ve been following closely over the summer despite a relatively lackluster press coverage in non-French speaking media is the attempted bid by Iliad on T-Mobile US. This is interesting to me for a number of reasons,