Blog Archives

On Telcos and content

July 26, 2008

Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy

telco

.Lance posted about the fact that the iPhone is having difficulty coping with telco giant mobile content offerings over in Australia. Lance puts it better than I could when he says that; The news is that these services are…

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Low risk plays provide no differentiation

June 27, 2008

Business, Design, Efficiency, Governance, IT, Strategy

consulting, tech mahindra, telco

A guest post from the Unreasonablemen.net This might be obvious but I see it time and time again. Old world companies are so fixated on risk that they are going nowhere. Old world companies behaviour can be characterised by…

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Another telco creates a SaaS aggregation platform

June 25, 2008

Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Strategy

aggregation, telco

Awesome to see that, fresh after the British Telecom move into creating a SaaS aggregation platform, Telstra has done similarly for Australia. The idea is that the platform will include applications from the major international players as well as…

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iPhone maximum price, data plans and contracts…

June 10, 2008

Compliance, Design, IT, Strategy

competition, iphone, telco

There been a lot (actually a huge amount) of talk about the iPhone 2. But the pricing and contract situation caught my eye. Firstly I have some queries about the “USD199 maximum worldwide” promise. For a start, and in…

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It’s about quality, not quantity…

June 9, 2008

Efficiency, IT, Society

service and support, telco

I’ve talked plenty of times in the past about the quality of service vs quantity of service debate. I’m a firm believer that “most” of our businesses can exist on sub 1meg broadband, so long as it is ubiquitously…

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Blog Archives

On Telcos and content

Low risk plays provide no differentiation

Another telco creates a SaaS aggregation platform

iPhone maximum price, data plans and contracts…

It’s about quality, not quantity…