Archive for July, 2008

Gary Kim on Fonolo

Who loves their bitstream?

That’s a line used by industry analyst Gary Kim during his keynote at the recent Voice Peering Forum. He was driving home the message that carriers need to add services that drive user loyalty.
As he wrote here,  "One of the themes [here] has been the absolutely central role applications now […]

The iPhone Canada launch and the Rogers backlash

I just came back to Toronto from Calgary and can confirm that iPhone frenzy is in full force there. It was the lead story in the evening news even though Calgary’s annual "Stampede" festival was in full swing. (If you’ve ever been to Stampede, you know how worked up Calgarians get about it.) 
The print, […]

Alan Quayle on Fonolo

I met Alan Quayle at the recent Voice Peering Forum. He moderated the panel Telco 2.0 and Web 2.0: Making Money Together? which was on the same track as the panel I was on, Service Delivery Platforms: The intersect of Web 2.0 and Telecom (I’ll post a review of that panel shortly). Both panels tackled […]

VPF Review

I attended the 2008 Voice Peering Forum last week in San Francisco and found it extremely informative. Hats off to organizer Shrihari Pandit.
You can read good summaries of the show by Rich Tehrani here and by Alan Quayle here.
Analyst Gary Kim kicked things off with a keynote address that focused on a topic that was […]