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Apr 13
The Future Happened Yesterday – Policy Control Conference
icon1 Posted by Don Bowman in Network Policy Control Market on April 13th, 2011 | No Comments - Reply Now

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From April 4th through 6th, members of the policy control community came together in Amsterdam for Informa’s Policy Control Conference.  The speaking session focused on specific aspects of policy control technology, like enabling new services or tips on deploying policy control architectures, and were attended by network operators, industry analysis, and solution providers.

The operator case studies were particularly interesting, as they explained real-life activities, results, and business cases being explored worldwide.  These types of presentations are always valuable because they allow the audience to really keep a finger on the pulse of the industry.  There were enough case studies to confidently reveal some trends:

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Mar 29
March Madness Goes Mobile
icon1 Posted by Matt Tooley in Applications, Major Events on March 29th, 2011 | 3 Comments

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March Madness is upon us and the advances in technology have made it easier than ever to stay up to date on the NCAA Tournament action.   I am old enough to remember when the tournament was shown on only one channel at a time and even old enough to remember when they didn’t televise the whole thing.  But that is story for a different time and place.

I was excited this year when I learned that CBS was going to make it really easy to watch any game, anywhere, using almost any device.  This aligned perfectly with a paper I am presenting at the upcoming Cable Show in Chicago this June and now I could claim I was doing “research” while watching the games via broadband.   In my opinion, the first week of the tournament is the most fun, when multiple games air on the same time and while one is constantly trying to figure out which upset to tune into.

 

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Mar 16
Protecting Subscribers from Bill Shock
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We’ve all heard anecdotal and media reports of mobile subscribers getting a nasty surprise when they open their monthly bill.  CNN ran such a story in the wake of last year’s devastating natural disasters in Haiti:

Kerfye Pierre had recently returned from volunteering in the aftermath of January’s Haiti earthquake when she got the most outrageous mobile phone bill of her life.  The tab? Nearly $35,000.  “I was like, ‘That cannot be possible,’ ” the 27-year-old Washington woman said of the moment she saw that staggering monthly statement.

In another recent story, a woman visiting Egypt got a bill for $37,000 upon her return.  In this case, the provider (Telus) did provide notification of the spike in data use, but the subscriber overrode the cut off and used 1.6GB of data, resulting in the eventual bill shock.

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Feb 18
Mobile World Congress 2011
icon1 Posted by Tom Donnelly in Network Policy Control Market on February 18th, 2011 | No Comments - Reply Now

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Mobile World Congress (MWC) is one of the world’s largest mobile technology showcases, and this year’s 2011 event from February 13-17, 2011 was no different.  MWC was a confluence of headline grabbing keynotes, announcements, new product launches, and remarkable demonstrations.

MWC brought together thousands of different players in the mobile world, from small start-ups and individuals selling accessories like mobile phone skins in 3×3 metre booths, to larger companies with massive, multi-million dollar pavilions, with room for hundreds of people to view live presentations in amphitheatres, talk with experts, and experience some of the latest products and applications. 

Of particular note were the Android and Blackberry Partner community areas where hundreds of companies leveraging these device platforms showed their wares.  In addition, Apple won one of the most prestigious awards that the GSMA Show Sponsor offers for “Phone of the Year” with the iPhone 4 but nobody was there from the company to even accept the award.  Lastly, the announcement by Nokia to abandon Meego and Symbian just prior to the start of the show resulted in unfortunate lack of interest at the dozen or so booths focused on applications using these mobile operating systems.

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