<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title>Posts by Dean Bubley</title><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/people/dean.bubley</link><description>Posts made by Dean Bubley on Convergence Conversation</description><language>en-gb</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:44:11 +0000</lastBuildDate><copyright>Copyright: (C) 2012 Convergence Conversation and contributing authors.  For full copyright info and terms of use visit http://www.convergenceconversation.com/</copyright><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>Convergence Conversation</title><url>http://www.convergenceconversation.com//lib/img/rssimg.png</url><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/people/dean.bubley</link></image>	<item><title>An update on @DApremium - the world's first paid Twitter channel. Now available with quarterly or annual subscriptions</title><description><![CDATA[It's now been six weeks since I announced the launch of @DApremium, my second Twitter stream - one which is available only to paid subscribers. (The original announcement with the background of the disruptive and ground-breaking concept is here).Since then, I've added 173 tweets to @DApremium, and signed up a couple of dozen followers; a mix of standalone paying Tweet-stream subscribers, and those who have obtained access bundled with purchasing the new Telco-OTT Strategy Report, or various consulting engagements.Firstly, it has been pretty exciting to see an entirely new business model come to life.]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dean.bubley/an-update-on-dapremium---the-worlds-first-paid-twitter-channel.-now-available-with-quarterly-or</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dean.bubley/an-update-on-dapremium---the-worlds-first-paid-twitter-channel.-now-available-with-quarterly-or</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:02:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>BYOD trend means BYOSP (bring your own service provider)... and will driveTelco-OTT services</title><description><![CDATA[One of the largest trends in enterprise IT right now is “BYOD” – standing for “bring your own device”. This is just a snappy acronym for what’s been happening for a while – employees using their own mobile phones, tablets or other products for work as well as in their personal life. Previously, it was given the less-cool name of “consumerisation of the enterprise”, although pedantically that also implies the use of consumer-grade services (eg Skype) as well as hardware.BYOD is important for a whole host of reasons relevant to enterprise CIOs and their suppliers – security, management, fit with IT applications and so on.]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dean.bubley/byod-trend-means-byosp-bring-your-own-service-provider...-and-will-drivetelco-ott-services</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dean.bubley/byod-trend-means-byosp-bring-your-own-service-provider...-and-will-drivetelco-ott-services</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:12:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Telco-OTT Strategies report now published</title><description><![CDATA[The report is now available.135 pages88 operator services mentioned4 service categoriesContent, video &amp; portalsCommunications, social &amp; identityCorporate &amp; cloud&nbsp;ConnectivityComprehensive discussion of what "Telco-OTT" means, why it's inevitable, and key success factors for making it work. Covers everything from VoIP to femtocells to SaaS to IP-VPNs to portals to IPTV-anywhere.More details coming over the next few days.For pricing details &amp; to purchase the report, please email:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dean.bubley/telco-ott-strategies-report-now-published</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dean.bubley/telco-ott-strategies-report-now-published</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:56:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Peak Telephony - why voice has to be about more than phone calls</title><description><![CDATA[This thread is from my Facebook page. The original poster is a 23yo friend, others range up to about 40-45yo. I thought it was worth a post as it highlights the reason why re-organising a trillion-dollar industry about something as near-obsolete as the 100-year old &quot;phone call&quot; is so dangerous.[Note: I don&#39;t know &quot;Samuel&quot; who defends the phone call, but by an interesting coincidence there&#39;s someone on LinkedIn who&#39;s a &quot;technology analyst&quot; with the same age &amp;]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dean.bubley/peak-telephony---why-voice-has-to-be-about-more-than-phone-calls</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dean.bubley/peak-telephony---why-voice-has-to-be-about-more-than-phone-calls</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:57:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>800+ providers of telephony services in a shrinking market? Consolidation to Telco-OTT, not federation, is the answer</title><description><![CDATA[Every telco, fixed or mobile, operates its own telephony service. Some operate two or more - either with separate enterprise platforms, IMS (mostly fixed, but VoLTE for some in the future), or OTT-style VoIP.This is ridiculous.The conventional telephony market is peaking, and in various areas declining. Apart from emerging markets with new users, even mobile telephony is reducing in price and popularity, as people switch to messaging or in some cases Internet-based VoIP alternatives. Pricing regulation, and accounting changes, are also driving down the measured market size.Yes, we see some consolidation in terms of networks for various reasons, but really, given that data use is growing and voice telephony is falling, it makes sense to decouple them.]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dean.bubley/800-providers-of-telephony-services-in-a-shrinking-market-consolidation-to-telco-ott-not-federa</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dean.bubley/800-providers-of-telephony-services-in-a-shrinking-market-consolidation-to-telco-ott-not-federa</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:56:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>2012 Winners and Losers</title><description><![CDATA[It's time for the annual merry-go-round of analyst predictions, and so I'll thrown my hat into the ring as usual. Some of these will come as "no surprise" to my regular readers &amp; clients, others represent a bit of a change of stance.I'm hideously busy before I head off for the holidays, so I'm afraid these are just bullet points. More detail &amp; explanation will crop up here over time, or on my new subscription @DApremium Twitter channel. Winners:Telco OTT services &amp; business modelsLoyalty business models for telcosCharging/billing related policy enginesNon-seamless operator wifi (offload, onload &amp;]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dean.bubley/2012-winners-and-losers</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dean.bubley/2012-winners-and-losers</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:58:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>New! Disruptive Analysis Premium Twitter subscription stream @DApremium - sign up today at an introductory promotional rate</title><description><![CDATA[What am I doing?&nbsp;I am launching the first analyst paid channel for Twitter: a subscription for "premium" exclusive tweets of my analysis, opinion and market observations.Why am I doing this?I've been using Twitter for over a year and a half, posting as @disruptivedean. I was a hold-out for a long time before grudgingly signing up. Although I've got a fairly good "reach" from it, I've been vocal in criticising it. I'd much prefer to just use something more useful like LinkedIn or Quora for "status"]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dean.bubley/new-disruptive-analysis-premium-twitter-subscription-stream-dapremium---sign-up-today-at-an-int</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dean.bubley/new-disruptive-analysis-premium-twitter-subscription-stream-dapremium---sign-up-today-at-an-int</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:59:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Telco-OTT Strategies & Case Studies: Pre-publication discount on forthcoming Disruptive Analysis report</title><description><![CDATA[I've discussed for several years (via private advisory work and this blog) the prospect of operators running their own "access independent" services. This means mimicking the major Internet players' role by offering what I'm calling "Telco-OTT" services. In other words, decoupling the network from the application - something which is highly controversial, especially for telecom traditionalists.Google, Facebook, Skype and others have shown the power and value of standalone applications and services.]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dean.bubley/telco-ott-strategies--case-studies-pre-publication-discount-on-forthcoming-disruptive-analysis</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dean.bubley/telco-ott-strategies--case-studies-pre-publication-discount-on-forthcoming-disruptive-analysis</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:04:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>What is the cost of VoLTE? Is it a huge strategic error for the mobile industry?</title><description><![CDATA[I'm sitting at the Layer123 conference on EPC and LTE in London.I've just heard a joint presentation on VoLTE from the GSMA and the MSF. The latter was about the recent interop trial, and the former was a general flag-waving / propaganda pitch. Apparently "everyone" is now agreed on VoLTE deployment. (I assume that comes from the same GSMA dictionary as "ubiquitous" used in discussions on RCS / RCSe). The subsequent presentation is from Germany consultancy Detecon, and the former one was from BT Wholesale.Some outputs so far on LTE Voice:- General agreement that CSFB still reduces QoE by increasing call setup time and dropping the LTE data connection- "Pure"]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dean.bubley/what-is-the-cost-of-volte-is-it-a-huge-strategic-error-for-the-mobile-industry</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dean.bubley/what-is-the-cost-of-volte-is-it-a-huge-strategic-error-for-the-mobile-industry</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:12:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
		<item><title>Controlling telephony IN and supplementary features by app</title><description><![CDATA[This is a very quick post, before I dash to the airport. I'll be in Singapore for the rest of this week at Telco 2.0's New Digital Economics event, speaking on both Mobile Broadband, and also on the telco-world implications of HTML5. More to follow on that topic another time.I was out with a friend last night, and he bemoaned the fact that he can't easily adjust the number of rings his phone does before it diverts to voicemail. (He's using an Android handset on a major operator). He said he'd been able to do something via some obscure code like *7529# , but it had taken him ages to find it - and he's a serious geek as well.It struck me that this is the sort of thing that should be done via an app, linked to the voicemail server.]]></description><link>http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dean.bubley/controlling-telephony-in-and-supplementary-features-by-app</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/dean.bubley/controlling-telephony-in-and-supplementary-features-by-app</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:06:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
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