1) Increased focus on manufacturers selling multiple "diverged" devices to users. Imagine you are the CFO of Nokia, Apple, Motorol...

Andy Abramson over at VoIP Watch thinks that Skype is being seriously subversive with its tie-up with T-Mobile in the US, allowing hotspot-...

I've just done a quick count of launched operator services based around dual-mode WiFi/cellular handsets. Note that I 'm talking her...

"Please turn off your mobile phones or set them to silent". Or else .

Interesting article here about the trials & tribulations of the new T-Mo US dual-mode service. No wonder there's been no nationwide...

As you've probably read elsewhere, Ofcom is auctioning off large chunks of prime spectrum in the 2.0-2.6GHz range. Various commentators...

Had an interesting call earlier with LogicaCMG, a company with a long heritage in SMS and MMS, and which has a fairly messaging-centric view...

At the WiFi / Cellular conference I chaired in Dallas a week or so ago, I was rather surprised that one of the Korean presenters was interro...

Apologies for the patchy posts over the past 2-3 weeks - a combination of moving to a new house, travel for a week or so, and getting a new ...

Trying to coordinate my travel schedule, with the technicalities of simultaneously moving premises has unfortunately left a gap - despite my...

This announcement makes a fair amount of sense. It fits in with the difficulties & delays in creating IMS-capable handsets, and the tr...

I'd more or less given up on mobile Java being relevant for anything other than occasional gaming downloads. It just doesn't seem to...

I'm at an IMS conference in Geneva at the moment, and it's helped me crystallise various separate bits-and-pieces I've observed ...

There's an articulate and interesting article on picocells and the UK's new low-power GSM licences over at The Register. Unfortunat...

I have to say I've become deeply wary of missives from the GSMA recently - there's certainly been plenty of blinkered & unrealis...

Spotted a fascinating article in this week's 50th Anniversary edition of New Scientist magazine (essential reading for anyone intereste...

At various conferences this year, people have been anticipating as many as 20-25 WiFi UMA-capable phones on the market by mid-2007. Well, gi...

Interesting to see the variety of reactions to 3's announcement last week. Several of the comments on this blog have essentially said ...

I see that Ericsson has jumped into the fray with a femto product. I haven't yet been offered a full briefing on this, but will most mo...

Filling in a few more details about the Hutchison 3 mobile broadband announcement.... - The company's CFO made a very public & empha...