By Steve Song, on September 3rd, 2010

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I’m a big fan of Huawei‘s website. Like any good company they publish information intended for their clients, mobile operators. Reading their publications from the perspective of a mobile operator makes perfect sense but reading it as a consumer has quite a different flavour.
I first [...]
By Steve Song, on June 14th, 2010

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Not quite a level playing field.
Telecommunications markets are notoriously difficult to regulate effectively. Telecom operators wield a great deal of power thanks to their wealth and the effectively hold they have on their markets whether through landlines or spectrum licenses and they don’t hesitate [...]
By Steve Song, on May 21st, 2010

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I am still frankly gobstopped by Facebook’s announcement. I vaguely caught the news of Facebook Zero but assumed it was just another mobile interface to Facebook. It was only when I read Erik Hersman’s post about it that I got the whole story. Not only [...]
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