Blogs « mobileVAS

March 10, 2010

DoCoMo snatches the lead again

Filed under: Blogs, Business and managed services, NTT DoCoMo, Operator Services, Public, Softbank Mobile — fmmonteverde @ 6:10 am

Japan’s largest mobile operator NTT DoCoMo pipped out third-ranked Softbank Mobile from its perch as the market’s fastest=growing operator in February.

And the Japanese behemoth is expected to hold onto the position in March as well, and possibly longer.

The story starts with the

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March 9, 2010

Smart meters, not-so-smart security

Filed under: Blogs, Network management, Public, Smart meters, smart grids, smart security — fmmonteverde @ 4:46 am

With all the recent talk of smart grids of smart meters as a key M2M app for operators that can also

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March 2, 2010

Hacking video signs of the times

Filed under: Billboard, Blogs, Hacker, IT and business management, Public, Security and risk management, video signs — fmmonteverde @ 6:10 am

Those of you in or around the digital signage space, pay attention:

ITEM: Police in the Russian city of Novorossiyskarrested a man for allegedly hacking into a video billboard in January and replacing the content wi

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February 23, 2010

Hot on the Chinese hacker trail

Filed under: Blogs, Business and managed services, China, Google, Hackers, Lanxiang Vocational School, Network management, Operator Services, Public, Security and risk management, Shanghai Jiaotong University — fmmonteverde @ 8:01 am

The press leaks from those on the trail of the China Google hackers are coming thick and fast.

That doesn’t mean they make sense as a whole.

The Wall Street Journal today says inv

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Secret copyright treaty takes aim at ISPs

Filed under: Blogs, Fixed Access, Fixed Broadband, ISPs, Operator Services, Public, copyright treaty — fmmonteverde @ 7:46 am

There’s been another leak from the Anticounterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) that indicates negotiators remain determined to hold ISPs responsible for any copy infringement that takes place over their networks.

ACTA is a global intellectu

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February 9, 2010

Huawei’s big four for the next ten years

Filed under: 2010 predictions, Blogs, Huawei, M2M, Mobile broadband, Network management, Operator Services, Predictions, Public, Wireless Access, cloud computing — fmmonteverde @ 7:45 am

Better late than never.

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February 8, 2010

CSL brings 3.5G back home

Filed under: Blogs, CSL, Carrier Ethernet, DSL, HSPA, Optical Networks, Public, Wi-Fi, Wireless Access, wireless broadband — fmmonteverde @ 7:02 am

Hong Kong’s mobile broadband war is spilling out into the fixed-line sector as two cellcos are now betting on 3.5G as a DSL substitute.

SmarTone-Vodafone kicked off the trend in May last year with its Home Broadband and Phone service, which leveraged its HSPA network against PCCW’s voice/fixed-broadband package.

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February 3, 2010

Apple iPad – what it is and isn’t

Filed under: Apple, Blogs, Mac, Mobile Apps and Content, Netbook, Public, e-book, iPOD, iPad, iPhone, mobile phones, tablet — fmmonteverde @ 2:14 pm

If there is ever any word that best describes Apple it’s showmanship. And Steve Jobs is master at this craft. With the iPod, Apple re-defined an existing market and launched a product that created the illusion that it would alter the way we did things. In reality, the iPod (including iPod Touch) and all the MP3 and MP4 players that came before and after it, is a music/video player.

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February 1, 2010

Making light of 2.4 GHz overload

Filed under: 2.4 GHz, Blogs, LEDs, Network management, Optical Networks, Public — fmmonteverde @ 6:11 am

The more Wi-Fi-enabled consumer electronics we see, the more some people start to worry about just how far we can stretch the unlicensed 2.4 GHz band before we have to give up and go back to cables to connect our home networks.

For example, I was recently forwarded a post on Slashdot from someone who pointed out that at this year’s CES event in Vegas, Intel

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January 25, 2010

The Google war of words

Filed under: Blogs, Business and managed services, Google China, Network management, Operator Services, Public, security — fmmonteverde @ 7:49 am

Last Thursday China said it hoped the Google issue would not become a political football.

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