Tag: technology

  • A taste of the Great Telco Debate 2018

    The dust has finally settled on the Great Telco Debate 2018. The months of planning for the interaction-packed debates and panels left us all reeling from the wealth of inputs, cross-questioning and new ideas on the future of the telecoms industry. This was our fifth event and feedback is that it was the best yet…

  • Technology, mind maps and people! A blind man’s guide to MWC

    The question I most often get asked at MWC is not what’s hot and what’s not. It’s always, how the hell do you cope with Barcelona and the FIRA as a blind person?  The answer is a combination of planning, people and technology. Planning The annual MWC Lewis spreadsheet is legendary. It’s a masterpiece in…

  • A ‘brand’ view of the telecoms industry

    Tim Pritchard, Kantar TNS at the Great Telco Debate In the spirit of getting outside perspectives on the evolving telecoms market, Tim Pritchard from Kantar TNS, the WPP company which is the largest custom research business in the world, joined the Great Telco Debate on the role of telecoms in the digital economy. The brand…

  • Ensuring Quality in a Virtualising Telecoms World

    The benefits of a virtualised infrastructure have been well-documented on many PowerPoints, webinars and web pages of late. All parties in the ICT world are getting excited about the potential savings and increases in flexibility and performance that virtualised processing, storage and networking can bring under a cloud banner. Telcos are no exception to this…

  • A blank canvas or a really complicated puzzle to unravel?

    After almost 30 years of working for the telecoms & networking research community in the shape of many of the leading research and advisory houses I am now venturing out on my own. Although, is anyone truly on their own any more  if you consider the network of people from both the vendor side and…