M2M
IoT’s hype cycle
The usual (or unusual) array of weird and wonderful products are being touted in Las Vegas, at the annual CES show. Cars that park themselves, plants that look after themselves, robots that are cool just […]
M2M
Beyond Billing
IoT hots up, set to disappear
Finance advisors Hampleton report that $9.4 billion has been spent in buying Internet of Things (IoT) companies over the past three years. An eye watering $5 billion of that was invested in the first nine […]
Billing
Does the Internet of Things – actually everything – hinge on billing?
There seem to be an almost equal number of new opportunities for communications providers as threats. On the one hand we hear that the ‘bread and butter’ revenues of telecoms companies – voice and SMS […]
Beyond Billing
Connected cars on the shopping list of 70 percent of owners
Normally we would love a press release that says connected cars are the Next Big Thing. We would immediately fire up the ‘punometer,’ roll up our sleeves and get ready to link the piece to […]
Analytics
M2M – the future is already here
We tend to talk about M2M, or IoT, in the future tense. We tend to think of it as discussion material at conferences. We remember, through a cloud of pain and claustrophobia, that cars seemed […]
Beyond Billing
The Internet of Things – biggest opportunity for communications but are we ready?
If you had a million dollars and you gave your partner a thousand dollars a day to spend, he or she would be back in 18 months time saying, presumably slightly out of breath and […]
Analytics
The machines are taking over and communications holds the key – in a good way.
In the communications industry we tend to look at life from the inside out. We look at the Over the Top (OTT) players invading our territory and consider them enemies until we consider how to […]
Beyond Billing
Highlights, hangovers and headlights – a review of Mobile World Congress
Remembering the highlights of last week’s Mobile World Congress is like trying to remember real images in a crazy flashing disco scene from the 1970s. More of it seems like the hangover afterwards than the […]
Beyond Billing
What Mobile World Congress looks like from space, er, Scotland
Following Mobile World Congress – #MWC14 – on Twitter cannot be done. It is like trying to drink from a fire hose. You scroll down. You scroll up and find another 160 tweets have been […]
Beyond Billing
Hashtag time for Barcelona watchers – what will be news at #MWC14
Last year, we didn’t do too badly with our hashtags for MWC 2013. We wanted to watch billing and pricing obviously, but we also wanted to watch NFC and the OTT players. Both turned out […]