Imagine a world where a single company buys radio spectrum licenses, and then rolls-out infrastructure, to create a radio access network (RAN). Imagine that this company then sells this service to mobile phone network operators, who can use it with no capital costs! I call this concept RAN-as-a-Service (RaaS)!
It seems that this idea is becoming more of a reality! Vodafone and Telefónica/O2 are sharing radio resources in the UK according to Vodafone and O2 deal could save around £100m per year, and Vodafone and Three are following suit in Ireland according to Vodafone and 3 in Irish network sharing deal.
Remember – you read about RaaS here first!
Tags: Ireland, O2, Telefónica, Three, UK, Vodafone
I saw an interesting article on the news this evening describing how the Irish Government is currently investigating the issue of mobile phone bullying. For more details about this, including video footage, see Criticism of delay in mobile bullying measures.
The facility to block communication from certain numbers does not currently exist because there has not been a need for it until recently. This facility would be part of general policy management, and I expect that there will be many advancements in this area in the near future. There are many companies currently developing solutions in this area, including two Irish companies:
So there should be policy management solutions deployed by the mobile phone network operators in Ireland very soon.
It really annoys me to hear politicians giving the impression that that know what they are talking about when it comes to technology!
Tags: Anam, Ireland, Mobile Phone, O2, Openet
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The Irish Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) published a report earlier this week covering the attitudes of Irish residential customers to ICT. The report is very easy to read, and it contains many interesting findings. My favourite findings are:
- 79% have Eircom as their fixed line supplier
- The average monthly fixed line spend is 48.04€
- The average monthly mobile spend has decreased from 45.64€ to 41.64€
- Vodafone‘s share continues to decline, O2‘s share has seen a marginal increase, Meteor’s share continues to grow, and Three‘s share remains relatively unchanged.
- 56% own either a PC or laptop, and 11% own both
- There has been a continued increase in Internet usage, and penetration now stands at 64%
- 43% think that speed is the most important factor when using the Internet
- 50% of home broadband users do not know their contracted downloaded speed
- 44% have heard of VoIP, 35% of these have used it, and72% of these people use Skype
- 82% believe that technology has improved their lives
- Technology is used for entertainment purposes by 36% for more than 20 hours per week
The full report can be downloaded from ComReg Residential ICT Services Survey Q4 2008.
Tags: ComReg, Eircom, Ireland, Meteor, Mobile Phone, O2, Skype, Three, Vodafone
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I previously wrote about the Irish Companies involved in W3C, so today I am going to list the Irish companies (and organisations) that are involved in the TM Forum. Again, I am basing these lists on the online membership list.
The Irish companies that are currently members are:
The non-Irish companies that have technical operations in Ireland that are currently members are:
At least I think that all of those companies have technical operations in Ireland. It can be very difficult to tell from their web pages.
Tags: Accenture, Agilent, Alcatel-Lucent, Amartus, Amdocs, Analysys Mason, Arantech, Arris, Asidua, BOC Group, BT, Cable and Wireless, Cisco, CommProve, Dataduct, DCU, Deloitte and Touche, EDS, Eircom, EMC Corporation, Ericsson, HERMES SoftLab, HP, IBM, Ireland, Martin Dawes Systems, Microsoft, Motorola, Nomos Software, Nortel, O2, Openet, Oracle, Perot Systems, RedKnee, RedZinc, SAP, Satyam, Selatra, Siemens, Sun, TCD, TM Forum, TSSG, Verizon, Vodafone
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