Will Apple’s move into NFC mobile payment reshape industry alliances?
My eye was caught today by a story on TechCrunch (an excellent blog BTW) that Apple may incorporate near field communications technology (NFC) into its next generation …
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Smart meters: intelligently connecting to a lower carbon future
I am awaiting with interest the response of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and Ofgem to their consultation on implementing smart metering in …
Cognitive radio: the road to mobile broadband delivery, or the path to anarchic interference?
For those who are not familiar with the term, cognitive radio (also sometimes described as white-space radio) describes a way of using radio spectrum in which …
UK telecoms policy moves government department as proposals for new Communications Act announced
In a week of Westminster resignations, with Andy Coulson accused of condoning mobile voicemail hacking and Ed Balls taking over as Chancellor you may be …
Mobile broadband event: net neutrality, mobile content, network capacity and handsets
Regular blog readers will know that I hosted a mobile data event for Cambridge Wireless yesterday. I found the event thought-provoking. For those on twitter, I attempted …
Vertical integration the industrial logic for M&A: Vivendi / SFR and Comcast / NBC Universal
My eye was caught last night by a story in the Financial Times this morning reporting analyst speculation that in the wake of the approvals of …
Financial technology, cloud, mobile data and social networking will drive deals and valuation multiples in technology sector
As a new blogger, site statistics are a source of endless fascination. They are however useful – my post on TMT valuation multiples seems to …
Broadband for the ‘other three billion’
Over the festive break I was musing on the broad benefits on getting the populations of developing countries connected. Amongst the barriers hindering ‘in-country’ network roll-out …
BT sets prices for passive access to ducts and poles
Before Christmas, this blog flagged that last-mile fibre access (also know as next generation access, or NGA) was a commercial and regulatory issue that would be high …
Cambridge Wireless Mobile Broadband Special Interest Group meeting 20 January 2011
Whilst it is very tempting to blog about the new government’s reconsideration of the Bribery Act announced yesterday (and if you are not aware of this, …