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Monthly Blog

Your Mobile Broadband Coverage - Are Better Maps the Answer?
Jul 2010

Recently I was pleasantly distracted by Ofcom's Mobile broadband coverage checker when I dropped in on their web site. It has been up there for a while but was new to me. I was enticed into a second look. It was like going into the car sales show room to look at a glossy new car...what was I going to find under the bonnet?

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Smart Meters, Smart Grids or really Smart Investments
Jun 2010

When the subject of “smart meters” was first brought to my attention it seemed such a simple technical  issue.  On the contrary is has proved to be like peeling back layers of an onion and where I finished up was a realisation that the real challenges were not technical at all…as my journey of discovery will now reveal.

All I had as my  starting ...

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SMS - the "Sleeping Beuaty" of GSM standardisation
May 2010

Hot off the press is a new book edited by Fred Hillebrand that is a celebration of the 25th anniversary of SMS standardisation. And what a well deserved celebration - with an estimated 4.5 trillion short messages sent (and received) in 2008 across the globe.

The book itself will appeal to anyone and everyone involved in GSM standardisation. The book captures the atmosphere of ...

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“Current Issues - The Monthly Blog”

Each month a blog  that offers a fresh insight into a strategic issue on the radar screen

 

This month's blog - Mobile Broadband Coverage Transparency – Are Better Maps the Answer?

Apple kicked started the mobile Internet revolution with their brilliant new interface and now a plethora of rivals have caught up and in some cases overtaken Apple with some fantastic smart phone devices. It is game on. But how well are the mobile phone operators keeping up with the mobile Internet revolution… not only with the best network technology (HSDPA and LTE)… but the best network coverage? The answer for the average consumer… it is difficult to know in any level of detail. This month I comment on Ofcom’s  effort to at least bring computer generated coverage maps onto one Web site. This tool has been around for about 12 months, is a commendable initiative but begs a lot of questions and issues…read on


 

 

“GSM Historic Centre”

GSM catapulted the mobile phone into the hands of over 4 billion people. What was the strategy, politics and secrets of how this happened?

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“Vintage Mobile Phones”

A companion to the GSM Historic Centre that looks at mobile phone developments with a sense of history

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"When Experience rather than History Matters"

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