Posts Tagged ‘telco’
Eyeballs not devices
Too many devices I seem to accumulated a proliferation of devices recently that want to have SIM cards in them for mobile data: Personal laptop (well actually a tablet, but not in the way that people use that label these days) Work laptop iPhone (not just data) Android phone (could be not just data, but […]
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Tags: 3, android, app, apps, Audible, contract, data, Galaxy Tab, iPad, mifi, mobile, payg, tariff, telco, Three, vodafone
It seems that our politicians are easily fooled by the telecos and their regulatory capture. Just yesterday the UK’s Culture minister Ed Vaizey announced his support for a ‘two-speed‘ internet. The idea is superficially attractive – content providers pay a premium to have their stuff delivered faster, and the consumer benefits from improved service. It’s like […]
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Tags: broadband, net neutrality, network, neutrality, telco
My firm moved offices a little while ago, and one of the things I was looking forward to was a much better Internet pipe than we had in our old place (which seemed like a domestic ADSL shared across 100+ people). Part of the plan was a fully VOIP telephone system, something that I’ll return […]
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Tags: broadband, efm, ethernet, ethernet first mile, network, telco, wimax
Mobile platforms
This is going to be one of those ‘to save me from repeating myself’ sort of blog posts, as I seem to have been frequently engaged in conversation recently about this topic. Apple Let’s start with the elephant in the room. Apple redefined the smartphone with the launch of the iPhone, and though I don’t […]
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Tags: android, apple, blackberry, INQ, iPad, iphone, mobile, Nokia, Palm, RIM, telco, tethering, WebOS, Windows Mobile
The network isn’t ubiquitous
and probably never will be. My brother has been moving house this week, which has caused him to spend a certain amount of time off net, and to get very angry with BT (though it all got sorted out in the end [1]). Sadly my suggestion to get a Vodafone 3G dongle doesn’t seem to […]
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Tags: 3G, BT, economics, network, network fallacies, telco, three strikes, wifi
Telepersona
This is one of those posts that I’ve been meaning to write for ages, and just not got around to it. I’d like to pull together some of the concepts that I’ve touched upon before such as persona, and the fact that telephone numbers are a primitive form of digital identity. Much of what I […]
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Tags: google talk, google voice, identity, mobile, persona, sip, skype, telco
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