Double Trouble #ATM #M2M

The BBC reports today that cardless ATM's are live for customers of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) or NatWest. 


Hooray I hear you shout, real life M2M, mobile money at it's best, Smartphones as a mobile wallet, all good news for telecoms, right?


Wrong, you just know this is going to be a recipe for disaster. 




Picture the scene:


1. you rush to leave the house and forget your mobile - have to return because you need money
2. grab mobile and rush to bank - ATM out of order
3. no worries, you use your App to locate another ATM, just around the corner
4. you get there, it's working, success...
5. no failure. It's inside the shopping centre, there's no mobile signal - foiled again!


Of course if you'd had a cash card, lack of mobile signal wouldn't have mattered.


Progress is never going to be easy. Maybe you wouldn't have forgotten your phone, maybe the first ATM was working, and maybe there was a signal. But life is never like that...


Hopefully all those who have attended our two day Wireless World conference have discovered how to avoid these  little hurdles. #TTWW12 

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

How can mobile empower the health sector? #TTWW12

A quick search on Total Telecom reveals a steady upturn in news stories relating to the health industry, with the main focus being on companies offering services for monitoring, connected devices, and addressing secutrity issues. Few however have connected the whole health issue up in the way the forthcoming Wireless World conference will.

Nurcombe: O2 Health

The morning of Day 1 features a major session on the Opportunities Created by M2M with significant emphasis placed on mobile health. Expert speakers on this subject include the Managing Director of O2 Health, Keith Nurcombe as well as the Medical Director of conference sponsors, Fujitsu, Joel Ratnasothy.


Between them, they will explore how technology is providing a catalyst to enabling mHealth, what challenges operators face moving into mHealth provision and also give you the chance to understand how O2 have provided groundbreaking successful development and delivery of mHealth.


If mHealth is one of the M2M developments you are looking at, you really need to come along, and if you book your seat today, you'll benefit from the early booker rate.


RESERVE YOUR PLACE AT WIRELESS WORLD

A more balanced view of mobile issues #TTWW12

Total Telecom Wireless World is less than three weeks away and is not to be missed if you want a more balanced view of the key issues that are changing the industry forever. In one corner we bring together the true disrupters, Google leading the pack of OTT players, whilst in the other we have the traditional telcos who are reinventing the way mobile business is done.

Book your seat at Wireless World by the 25 May and save £75 on your ticket.

TEN THINGS YOU WILL LEARN:

1. What did China Telecom learn launching an MVNO 
2. Who is tomorrows consumer - Googles View
3. How does the Internet of Things impact operators
4. How will networks evolve in the future
5. What services will drive the mass market take up of 4G?
6. How can operators capitalise on mobile video
7. Where are the emerging market opportunities
8. How is (BYOD) changing the relationship with the user
9. How can businesses offset increasing complexity in IT
10. Which wireless technologies are going to win

Don't miss your chance to join leading global telecom operators, OTT players, analysts, commentators and more as we debate the catalysts for this change in the Wireless World...

BOOK TODAY www.totaltele.com/wireless 

More from #CTIAw12

Continuing yesterdays theme of (fairly) interesting images from CTIA, here's some of todays dragged from Twitter using the hashtag #CTIAw12


Love the way LG are promoting themselves with @theLGgirl series - quite 'lively'!

Better photo's today, including the gang at the #DirtyLittleSecretsParty via @friendbzur

But press rooms clearly don't get any more exciting (thanks @dougsmithstpete)

But at least this guy found a friend.... @thedroidguy 

and finally, thanks @kalske for sending  this #NokiaSiemens cool Flexi Zone with a New Orleans flavor image

Keep sending them through to @totaltelecom mentioning #CTIAw12

More wireless for the diet? Check out Total Telecom Wireless World

http://www.totaltele.com/wireless

12 - 13 June 2012, Millennium Mayfair, London, UK

Stand-ard of photo's #CTIAw12

I feel a Dr. Seuss moment coming on when I look at the photos from CTIA, because if you haven't taken them on your smartphone and posted them via twitter perhaps you should. In the words of the great man "If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good"


But why are so many of the photo's of your stands? Very nice, very expensive, but what does it tell me about CTIA?


So here's a few of the the better one's I've spotted:

Tyntec drinks via @MachaufStefanie

@kalske from the #NokiaSiemens stand

@ashmatty Phablet - whatever that might be!

@dregie New Orleans celeb....




So can you do better? Send them to Total Telecom @totaltelecom mentioning of course #CTIAw12


And if you have a more conventional story from the show, post it on our press releases: http://www.totaltele.com/press-releases (click the post link at the bottom of the screen)

Breakfast has been served #LTE

Today's LTE Breakfast with Total Telecom was a great success, with seats at a premium at the Institute of Physics on Portland Place.

We were delighted to have fantastic speakers and panellists including Kevin Baughan of Virgin Media Francesco Liberatore (JonesDay)and Dan Warren of the GSMA, and would pass on our thanks to iBasis and UK Broadband for sponsoring the event, and sending along their CTO's for the panel: Ajay Joseph (iBasis) and Philip Marnick (UK Broadband)

We promoted the hashtag #TTLTE and had some active Twittering going on - thanks especially to AT&T's Rebecca Atherley, for a steady stream of Tweets. It was also great to see a number of participants in the room who had flown in especially for the event, including three from North America. It just goes to show that a niche event can really work for many people.

The next event will Emerging Markets on the 10 April. Operators can register for free. Find out more about participating or sponsoring on our website www.totaltele.com/breakfast or for more in the LTE space, come along to Total Telecom Wireless World on the 13 & 14 June 2012.

It's a wrap! Awards and Conference complete

The 13th annual World Communication Awards and first ever Total Telecom World conference are over for another year, so time to take a deep breath and relax. No chance, it's time to start working on Total Telecom Wireless World for June 2012!


Eighteen categories were awarded, with the highlights being the emergence of UPC Austria as the winner in two categories, Team of the Year and Best Customer Care, and the naming of Randall L. Stephenson of AT&T as CEO of the Year. Randall unfortunately was unable to make the awards, but did send us personal video message.

There is great press coverage of the awards this year, in particular the BBC were very quick off the mark to cover BT's win of Project of the Year for Superfast Cornwall.




Almost 500 people attended this years awards dinner at the London Hilton on Park Lane where Andrew Neil demonstrated just what makes him such a popular commentator and presenter with his unique blend of topical, humourous, and the slightly cutting - especially if you happen to work for Orange.  You can view all the winners and highly commended companies on the website at www.worldcommsawards.com 


Many of those who attended the awards also participated in the inaugural Total Telecom World conference where they were moved and inspired by Karim Khoja's story of telecoms in Afghanistan, as well as getting great insight from Ed Richards, CEO of Ofcom and the opportunity to hear first hand from Nigel Stagg, the new CEO of BT Wholesale in his first conference presentation.


Panel discussions in particular were lively with candid views expressed by the likes of Jeremy Boardman of Rothschild (Any new UK fibre investors would be 'certifiable'), whilst David Haigh of Brand Finance was described by one participant as making the other panellists 'squirm'!


An eventful two days, when all's said and done...

Who are you - #Telecom User Survey

Total Telecom User Survey: You know who you are (we hope), but we're not so sure and so we are asking you to complete our user survey.

Total Telecom generates visits from around 100,000 global telecom professionals every month. Many of you are registered users of the website and so we know who you are, but some people visit without having registered for our newsletter, to download a white paper or view older content, and that's one of the reasons for us to do user surveys.

We also like to ask questions about your interests and your views, and that helps us to understand they type of information and survey's we can generate that might interest you. You will notice that much of this years survey focuses on mobile issues, and this will help us frame the agenda for Total Telecom Wireless World that we will launch in 2012.

As a thank you for completing the survey, we are offering everyone who participate a 10% discount on attending our forthcoming Total Telecom World conference. As the survey should only take a couple of minutes, that's virtually Money for Nothing!

Please take a couple of minutes to complete the survey.

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