Six Articles From Yesterday at #MWC14 You Must Read

Yesterday from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the Total Telecom team reported on rumours, health initiatives and.... pasta. Check out the six most read stories on our news service below or click here for the #BreakingNews channel.

Cisco CEO dismissive of Juniper/NSN rumour, predicts vendor 'musical chairs'  

Zuckerberg seeks operator partners to extend affordable Internet access
 
Samsung goes heart rate monitoring mad with Galaxy S5, new wearables
 
Deutsche Telekom on network lasagne and losing the 'mobile' from MWC

Smartphone spec wars are over, it's now about marketing and pricing
 
Sprint boosts indoor coverage at fraction of cost of femtocells

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11 great #telecom video's from 2012

The Total Telecom video channel, Total TeleVision is stuffed full of fantastic interviews, so we've picked out 11 of the best, produced in 2012 that you really should watch.


Addressing the opportunities in Asia: Jim Clarke - Telstra Global

Building the trust of your customers: Don Peppers - Founding Partner, Peppers & Rogers Group

Europe has to change: Luigi Gambardella, Executive Board Chairman, ETNO

OTT is good for operators: Andreas Bernstrom is CEO of Rebtel

Telco's need to act more like internet companies - Ben Atherton, CEO, Samba Mobile

The regulatory climate in 2012 - Georg Serentschy, Chair 2012, BEREC

The switch is on - are you keeping up: Steve Gleave - VP Marketing, Metaswitch

The Top 500 Telecom Brands - David Haigh, Brand Finance

Video is everything: Storing & distributing content Lucy Dimes of Alcatel-Lucent

What do 'you' mean by customer experience - Johan Langer of Ericsson spoke to Brian Dolby at Total Telecom World

Why is Zain Jordan the "Best Place to Work" - Ahmad Al Hanandeh - CEO

Oldies and goodies: #mpayments #data

Two stories reported by the BBC struck a cord with me, making me realise that there's no such thing as a new idea and that perhaps technology can't cure all.

First up the admirable attempt from Barclaycard to drive adoption contactless payments by providing customers with a second 'credit card' that they can stick onto the back of their mobile phone. The logic I can see, and it may well enable them to demonstrate to device manufacturers a need to include a payment chip in future handsets, but it makes me wonder who else might adopt such a strategy? Will the iPhone 5 feature stick on Apps?

Never the less, there might be plenty of people from the publishing fraternity delighted to see the revival of the 'cover mount' - even if it is a battery cover...

The second story was the serious issue of Internet monitoring and use of personal data, addressed by none other than Sir Tim Berners-Lee. In an interview with the Beeb he said "It's worth going online and making sure you talk to your MP, talk to your friends and make sure they're aware of this concern and, if necessary, get out there in the streets, waving banners."

Get out on the streets waving banners, how terribly 1990. I suppose at least the protests will be organised through Facebook and Blackberry Messenger and reported through Twitter and Instagram...

So as the wheel turns, it's time to dig out your LP's, search out your Betamax, and start playing Snake on your (black and white) mobile.