On this day in time...from the Total Telecom archive

Top story currently on the Total Telecom website is AT&T announces $48.5 billion DirecTV deal, giving AT&T a significant foothold in the TV market, but do you know what the big news would be if we turned the clock back 10 years?

Well as least somethings' don't change, as 10 years ago Google were still dominating the news with the headline being: Google planning desktop software search tool – NYT - but of course the idea of desktop search doesn't sounds very revolutionary today!

Going back ten years is a nice example of the depth of the Total Telecom archive, but did you realise we can actually perform the same trick right back to 1997, so on the 19 May 1997 we reported C&W and GTE Face Off in Bid for Foothold in Central America, written by one Jeremy Scott-Joynt.

How times have changed!

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Telecom Headlines Monday 7 January 2013

Huawei reversed profit decline in 2012 
By Mary Lennighan, Total Telecom
Huawei recorded a 10%-plus increase in both net profit and revenues in 2012, acting CEO Guo Ping said in his New Year message earlier this week. The Chinese vendor said it expects sales revenue for the year to exceed US$35 billion, while net profit will come... READ more

Google not guilty of search bias, FTC rules
http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=478586&mail=924&C=0

LTE device shipments hit 103m in 2012
http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=478590&mail=924&C=0

IPTV uptake on the rise in Canada
http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=478595&mail=924&C=0

India to auction remaining spectrum from 11 March
http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=478589&mail=924&C=0

Australia accepting applications for digital dividend auction
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Paving the Way #DisruptionEruption

What happens when an OTT player diversifies? Someone goes Over the Top. In this case literally. Much has been made of Google's fibre project in Kansas City, but now one budding entrepreneur is looking to utilise the much vaunted new network to enable embed sensors in pavement slabs to capture data about potentially hazardous roadway conditions, such as cracks, potholes and traffic jams. The WSJ carried the story of  Integrated Roadways LLC.

Also spotted this week (via engadget),  the US MVNO Ting - famed for it's aggressive flexible price plans has done a deal to offer users the Samsung Galaxy SIII. That's sure to give traditional players some-Ting to think about!

These and other disruptive and innovative ideas are just the type of story we want you to hear about at Total Telecom World.

Challenging the mobile eco-system #TTWW12

Companies that refuse to do things differently will eventually die. That's why the most important speakers at Total Telecom Wireless World #TTWW12 aren't necessarily the biggest names from traditional operators, but are the disruptor's, the catalysts for change.

 So here's five reasons why you should attend Total Telecom Wireless World:

1. BBC - Stalwart of British broadcasting, the BBC has changed. Jane Weedon heads up Business Development for the Future Media & Technology division and will discuss: How is content consumed on different devices? How people approach content across different platforms. What does this mean for the operators? How do consumers interact with related content optimised for different devices?

2. China Telecom Europe shook up the industry when they announced their MVNO deal with Everything Everywhere. MD Yan Ou will explain what they learnt from the project as well as what they might do in the future...

3. Fast Future - if you want to know the future, you need a futurist. Rohit Talwar, CEO of Fast Future is one of the best. In his presentation he covers: Where will the next generation of business growth come from? What key socio-demographic trends will shape future market opportunities? How might changing business practices impact the demand for wireless services?

4. FonYou - winners at the recent World vendor Awards, FonYou are a unique proposition. They offer cutting edge Cloud Telephony solutions for telecom operators, but just to prove their model worked, launched their own operator! Speaker Clemens Rossberg is CFO and co-founder with an enviable international telecoms background.

5. Google - these guys don't often come last, but they do in this list! Google director, Peter Fitzgerald, talks devices, e-commerce, and tomorrows consumer....

Wireless World takes place on the 12 & 13 June in London. To book your place visit www.totaltele.com/wireless

COMPANIES ALREADY ATTENDING....
Amber Road / Analysys Mason / APi / AT&T / BT Wholesale / Cable & Wireless Worldwide / China Telecom Europe / Datora Telecom / Deutsche Telekom / DU / EM Finance Consulting LLP / Ericsson Telekommunikation GmbH & Co.KG / Everyting Everywhere / Forget Me Not Africa / Fujitsu / Google UK / Hot Telecom / Idea Cellular / JP Morgan / Microsoft / O2 / Omani-Qatari Telecommunications / Orange / OTR Global / Ovum / Pathena / Picochip / POKOTONTEL / PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk / Qtel (Qatar Telecom) / Sky / Telefonica UK / Telekom Austria / The Cloud networks / Three Group / Unisys Corporation / Utilities / UTS

DIY, BYOD, the new corporate strategy?

So whose phone do you use? Your employers or your own? In this months Total Telecom+, Nick Wood talks about the growing trend to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)

Amongst the conclusions is a quote from Gartner vice president Nick Jones. “BYO is a principle that most organisations will adopt and organisations must prepare for this change.” If he's right then operators really need to jump on board to realise the opportunity to generate revenues from ‘bring your own device’

You can read Nick's article and others from this issue on your iOS or Android device, as an online page turning digital issue (see flip image below) or download as a PDF. Find out more here.


Every issue of Total Telecom+ is full of the latest analysis of the stories behind the news, so if you've missed any recent issues, check out our archive for recent issues including:


October: Device Strategies, Tablets
September: Content Strategies: Over-the-top content strategies
July/August: Self organising networks (SON)
and much more...
View the archive: www.totaltele.com/plus/archive

Google #Cloud: a threat to Amazon or a threat to you?

Yesterday the Google enterprise blog unveiled a raft of new Cloud assets aimed at enterprise market place and was reported by various parts of the press as gunning for Amazon web services.

Whilst this may be true, once again this underlines the threat that the likes of Google pose to the traditional telecom industry, offering over-the-top services at no doubt competitive prices, but more importantly leveraging the enormous strength of the Google marketing infrastructure and making the entire proposition seem user friendly and simple with a typically clean proposition page.

Telecom operators are still not getting to grips with their cloud propositions and others are eating their breakfast, lunch, and dinner!

And it's not just Google. yesterday IBM strengthened its private cloud proposition through the purchase of Platform Computing, whilst the Total Telecom press release feed is awash with releases relating to Cloud initiatives, mostly from vendor companies.

However the opportunity for the telcos is clear. At a recent conference in Rome it was flagged that reliability tops enterprise concerns about the cloud and this opens the way to a terrific opportunity for the telecom operators. OTT providers cannot guarantee the reliability of the network, whilst telcos are far better placed to offer this reassurance.

Without doubt this is at the core of the debate and will be central to the discussion at the Breakfast with Total Telecom Next Generation Cloud Services discussion on the 6 December.

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Google like it's 1999

Google like it's 1999 - Engadget

This photo on engadget perhaps illustrates why Google has become scary. This is reputedly all the hardware used to run Google in 1999, whilst in a Forbes article last year Scott McNealy of Sun is quoted as saying Google purchased around 15% of all computer servers worldwide in 2006. Ouch!