Here are the highlights from my Future of Communications newsletter content during 2014. If you want to get more fresh thinking about telecoms in 2015, then do sign up. It’s free.

Is an ISP content or carriage? The answer seems to be blindingly obvious: telecoms is about the carriage of bits over a distance, and ISPs are typically run by telcos, and it’s the Internet applications that are the content. You can see Justice Scalia make this argument in the famous Brand X case, where he mocks people who argue that […]

I have just finished writing a report for a client on enterprise communications (with support from my many associates). It closes with the top three technology challenges that network operators need to face up to in the next decade. An edited version is reproduced here.

This article is about the most important networking term you’ve never heard of: ‘stationarity’. How to fetch two pints of milk from the store? Do you have kids? Good. If not, just imagine for a moment that you’re a parent. You regularly send your teenage child to the shops to buy some fresh milk. You […]

I joined Hank Hultquist of AT&T, a leader in network policy and regulatory affairs in a Phoneword forum webinar.  The topic of discussion was “Fit for purpose broadband for business”.

I have uploaded a tweaked and annotated version of my presentation today at IPX Summit. Summary: We’re using the wrong metrics to describe “success” in building quality-assured broadband services. As a result we don’t deliver success, either in terms of cost or performance. If we change our metrics to ones that reflect the customer experience, […]