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Weighing in on Net Neutrality

August 30, 2010

August 30, 2010 by rmeyer

by John Giere, VP, Products and Marketing

The Google/Verizon proposal on net neutrality earlier this month set off an explosion of debate and criticism. Once again net neutrality surfaces as an issue that transcends technology to become an ideological battleground.

The principle of net neutrality aims to protect the open and interconnected nature of the public Internet by mandating that all internet traffic be treated equally. Simple enough. But when you apply this principle to mobile networks and its unique bandwidth economics, the devil is all over the details.

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Solving Network Congestion Requires Traffic and Demand Management

August 19, 2010

August 19, 2010 by rmeyer

by Ken Denman, CEO, Openwave

When Openwave helped introduced the wireless application protocol (WAP) over 14 years ago, it was with a vision that mobile data would become an indispensable part of our lives. In 2009 there were more than 450 million mobile internet users worldwide. That number is expected to be one billion by the year 2013.

Be careful what you wish for.

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The Nature of a Poor User Experience and the Thankless Role of Mobile Operator

August 12, 2010

August 12, 2010 by rmeyer

by John Giere, SVP Products and Marketing

To be clear, this post is not a pity party for multi-billion dollar telco corporations. The negative PR that they get, deserved or not, is part of doing business. I do often wonder why we as consumers are much more likely to blame the carrier for a poor user experience rather than the device or any other member of mobile ecosystem.

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Low-cost Messaging and Content Storage for Service Providers

July 28, 2010

July 28, 2010 by rmeyer

by Utpal Thakrar, Product Manager

When was the last time you cleaned out your email inbox?

The introduction of Gmail in 2004 changed consumer expectations about email by offering nearly unlimited mailbox capacity for free. It was a move that began to change our online behavior. From their April, '04 press release: ". . . . Gmail is built on the idea that users should never have to file or delete a message . . . . Google believes people should be able to hold onto their mail forever." In large part, we do.

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When Bad News is Good News: Ernst & Young release report on telco risk

July 22, 2010

July 22, 2010 by rmeyer

by Vikki Herrera, Director of Corporate Marketing

The number-one risk headlining Ernst & Young's annual Top 10 Risks in Telecommunications report is "Losing Ownership of the Client," (also top of the list in 2009). Different this year is the context in which E&Y lays out their study. The entire intro is devoted to describing the "deluge of data" across operator networks. A key paragraph:

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