Cornered! is a blog devoted, most of the time anyway, to telecommunications: local and global issues, technology, people and trends from the perspective of someone who's been reporting, analysing and commenting on the industry since the dark ages (BC - before competition). Sometimes serious, sometimes flippant, sometimes frivolous. Controversial, analytical, informative, amusing, but never boring; a vehicle for examinations of important issues and observations on my encounters and experiences in an industry where polarised views and hyperbole are the norm.
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
The most spectacular rumour doing the rounds of telecoms and IT news sites right now must be that 15 of the world's biggest carriers - AT&T, BT, Deutsche Telecom, NTT etc - are planning to launch their own free VoIP service to compete with, and hopefully destroy, Skype. Does this have any legs?
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008 |
Australia's communications minister, senator Stephen Conroy, has said that he would consider a structural separation of Telstra along the lines of separation regimes introduced in Singapore, the UK and New Zealand in order to ensure a competitive market in the provision of future broadband services.
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008 |
18 month old Canadian Elijah Luck may have the unfortunate distinction of being the first person to die because a VoIP phone service used to make an emergency call failed to deliver the caller's correct address. Without a foolproof system, which is years away, the same thing is likely to happen again.
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 |
The countries are different and so are the political parties but the pre-election announcement by New Zealand's National Party that it would invest $NZ1.5 billion over the next six years to rollout fibre to the majority of New Zealand homes bears many similarities to the Australian Labor Party's pre-election pledge of March 2007: and just look at the mess the ALP has now got itself into!
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 |
An AT&T executive has made headlines by claiming that a global investment of $US130 billion will be needed in the next three years to stop the Internet becoming grid-locked, but he has no indication of how this investment will be funded, or even if a radical change in business models for Internet services will be needed. Perhaps he is simply scaremongering.
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Thursday, 17 April 2008 |
Communications minister Stephen Conroy has sought to defend the evaluation process for responses to his RFP for a national broadband network, describing the ACCC's role as critical. Critical as in: "having a decisive or crucial importance in the success or failure of something" it is not. Try critical as in "having the potential to become disastrous" instead.
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Sunday, 13 April 2008 |
Communications minister Stephen Conroy has issued his long-awaited request for proposals to build a broadband network delivering at least 12Mbps to 98 percent of the Australian population, with up to $4.7b of government funding. It seems to have been set up as a one horse race for Telstra.
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Saturday, 12 April 2008 |
Networking giant Cisco is turning its attention to the consumer market, but if you think this means selling wireless access points and broadband routers for home use, think again. Cisco's ambition is for a vast range of consumer services implemented in and delivered through its technology embedded in service provider networks.
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
Depending on whether you believe Optus/Elders or communications minister Stephen Conroy Opel's plans to use fixed WiMAX technology to deliver broadband services in regional Australia were/were not viable, but in metro areas its certainly looking good with Clever Communications following BigAir in posting positive cashflow from their fixed WiMAX networks.
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Friday, 04 April 2008 |
In less than two years the next phase of 3G cellular technology should be commercially available and its backers say it will be cost and performance competitive with ADSL. This raises some rather interesting issues for rural Australia.
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Thursday, 03 April 2008 |
Cisco attributes burgeoning sales of its high end carrier router to carriers having to cater for massive increases in video traffic on the Internet, but how do carries generate additional revenues to recoup their investments?
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Wednesday, 02 April 2008 |
The Federal Government has found a loophole that has enabled it to extricate itself from the much maligned deal under which the previous Coalition Government commited almost $1 billion to the Optus - Elders joint venture in return for the provision of broadband services to huge areas of regional and rural Australia, but the means by which it has done this seem highly questionable.
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Saturday, 22 March 2008 |
The market for telepresence - virtual reality videoconferencing is tipped to take off. The announcement of a tie-up between Tandberg and Nortel raises questions about Microsoft's role in the market -given the strong unified communications relationship between Nortel and Microsoft.
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