Category Archives: Telecom

Telecom at the Speed of Moore’s Law

Posted on September 23, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

While the IT industry has Moore’s law in their DNA, the Telecom industry (both telcos and vendors) have not yet been able to embrace the concept and many analyst keep raising doubts about the sustainability of Telecommunications decreasing margins. Microprocessors, … Continue reading →

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Telcos in a Clouds & Pipes World

Posted on September 12, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

The previous post might have look pessimistic about telcos when defining the future of telecom as “Clouds and Pipes (and Toys)”. In reality, it is just an analogy to describe what is already happening with “Over-The-Top” players delivering applications and … Continue reading →

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The Future of Telecom: Clouds and Pipes

Posted on September 9, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Internet is the paradigm of next generation communications. One of the wonders of Internet is that it allows to de-couple Services/Applications from the access network. e.g. Anyone still uses the email or hosting services from your broadband access supplier? Most … Continue reading →

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WiMAX and Emerging Markets

Posted on August 29, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Although many predict WiMAX failure almost before it is born, the reality is that WiMAX is far from dead. Emerging markets (Africa, India, South East Asia or Latin America) have such a lack of proper fixed broadband that WiMAX becomes … Continue reading →

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Nokia to Get Full Control of Symbian

Posted on June 24, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Nokia announced today a bid to acquire 100% of Symbian. Nokia already owns 48% of the shares, and would purchase the remaining shares for 264 million euro, from their current Symbian partners Sony Ericsson, Telefonaktiebolaget, LM Ericsson, Panasonic Mobile Communications, … Continue reading →

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Nokia Still Don’t Get it

Posted on June 23, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

 ”It is the usability, stupid.” In essence, Nokia keeps developing mobile phones, when younger generations do not care about a phone but about communications in an ample sense (IM, Facebook, web, etc) and multimedia (music, music , music, clips and … Continue reading →

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The First Step for Mobile TV is Free-To-Air

Posted on June 17, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Internet and Software companies know it well: mass adoption comes first, revenues will come later. It is what Chris Anderson calls Freeconomics. When the marginal cost of every new subscriber is close to zero, free is the way to go: … Continue reading →

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Coolness Vs. Openness

Posted on June 16, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Mac, coolness: the choice of the artist and the MBA. Style, simplicity, less features but works flawlessly, usability on the top, identify with brand, price premium. The right brain decides. Ubuntu, openness: the choice of the engineer and the geek. … Continue reading →

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Femtocells and iPhone 3G

Posted on June 12, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

At $199 and with mandatory flat data rates, millions of iPhones 3G will soon boost the data traffic of UMTS networks. Om Malik wonders whether AT&T UMTS network will be up to the task, specially as the interest on video … Continue reading →

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2018. What Laptop Will You Use in Ten Years?

Posted on June 11, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

We have lived enough IT history to know that reality has exceeded Moore’s Law prediction of computers doubling capacity every 18 months. In fact, the period is now close to 12 months. Following this exponential growth these are the specs … Continue reading →

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