Tag Archives: Telecom

iPad Killed Wireless Unlimited Data Plans

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Jose Miguel Cansado

With the coming of the iPad, we started to hear about MiFi, tethering and mobile hotspots. The case for the MiFi is simple. You pay a single data plan for your MiFi (or your smartphone with tethering), and there you … Continue reading →

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Broadband at 1 Gbps in 2012!!

Posted on February 4, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Koreans and Japanese enjoy today broadband connections at 100 Mbps. Not being enough, the Korean Communications Commission wants to boost the country broadband infrastructure to provide 1 Gbps service in 2012!! That  is a tenfold increase from today’s speed and … Continue reading →

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Telecom Slowdown? Seven Reasons for Hope

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

We have seen recent announcement of job cuts in almost all Telecom and Tech companies, including Microsoft and Google only to name those that are new to those announcements. GigaOm recently echoed a recruitment firm report that estimated almost 200,000 … Continue reading →

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Telefonica Impressive Performance and Spanish Telecos

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Via El Economista I found this table that shows the impressive performance of Telefonica over the past eight years since Cesar Alierta took over the CEO position from Juan Villalonga. Telefonica has gone from 15th place in 2000 to be … Continue reading →

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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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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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