Patrick Hurley
Verizon's managed TEM services monetizes wireless/wireline complexity
Don’t look now, but Verizon's got your number…and the bills and contracts that go along with it.
Alerts can be big business
There are a lot of trends coming together that make alerts and the networks that might support them into an opportunity. We should start off by trying to put our arms around the category alerts – because actually it’s a quite broad...
What Vonage should be doing
A few months back, we were asked by a company sitting on the Vonage IPO what we thought of the company’s strategy. Our thoughts at the time (and they haven’t really changed) were that it was a very tough investment – Vonage has had an...
MVNOs need to do more than just branding
Mobile Virtual Network Operators continue to sprout up left and right, building on the success of Virgin Mobile (the progenitor of the MVNO craze) and more recent offerings like ESPN Mobile. Perhaps the biggest name to get in the game...
Are your bandwidth usage models wrong?
As service providers plan their networks and make strategic technology choices – like fiber to the home vs. fiber to the node vs. enhanced CO DSL – they rely upon certain assumptions about how customers will want to use bandwidth, and...
IPTV TV distribution development keeps going
It’s not news that the distribution of IPTV content within the home is, for many carriers, as big a challenge as getting the signal to the home in the first place. Early IPTV providers in the U.S. (folks like SureWest ) have often had...
Losing your brand in your services mix
At CES 2006, AT&T was quick to show off a highlight of its exhibit, the Yahoo!-enabled Nokia 6682 phone. The Nokia phone has all this sexy functionality – it can do all of the standard “smartphone” organizer/calendar functions, acts...
Retail products on demand will drive extra IPTV revenue
We’ve all heard about Video on Demand for years, and services revenue attributable to VoD are a core part of all service providers’ business cases. But new technology from Scientific-Atlanta is allowing service providers to step...
Give your customers a mobility roadmap – They need it!
In the news this week was an exciting (and long-awaited) item: the IEEE has approved the standard for mobile WiMAX, 802.16e. This standard gives vendors, chipmakers and carriers something to aim at, and gives groups like the WiMAX...
Debunking the set-top box safety net – “Entertainment Bypass” will rule
The set-top box is becoming less important. That’s right, less important. Wow, how can you say that? Cisco just paid bazillions for Scientific Atlanta. Microsoft is plowing money into its IPTV set-top box-driven initiative. No doubt...
Are your telecom services under the Christmas tree?
It’s an amazing world when the toymakers stop making toys for Christmas. But that’s what’s happening. This Christmas, if the NY Toy Fair is any indication, is going to be the first one where the toy industry has pretty much thrown...