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What is the difference between “sales” and “marketing”? Why do incumbents have an advantage in deals? Are new technologies, particularly revolutionary ones, sold differently than established ones? Should they be? All of these questions relate back to something even more basic, which is “how does something actually get sold?” That seems a pretty basic question…
Let’s be honest, 5G has been a bit of a disappointment. There were all manner of wild claims made for it, starting when it was a gleam in the eye of standards-writers and continuing until real deployment started. Then people started to realize that the average mobile user would never know they had it at…
What, exactly, is the potential for edge computing? It seems to me that we’re seeing more of a need for the “what-is-the-potential” or “what’s-the-justification” sort of pieces every week. Most of that, I think, is generated because there’s an endless appetite for exciting things, and less so for true things. The problem is that excitement…
It’s tempting to attribute the growing interest in capex reduction among network operators to the current economic malaise. The problem is that the push to buy less gear, or at least spend less on it, has been around for well over a decade. The recent interest in capex plans by AT&T and Verizon, then, are…
Will this, as an SDxCentral article suggests, be the year of NaaS? I think somebody has suggested that every year for the last five years or so was going to be just that, so it might be interesting to look at why we’ve not achieved NaaS so far, starting with an inability to define what…
I’ve done a couple of recent blogs on the elements of “contextual” services, and drawn on driving and walking as examples of places where they could be applied. This can, I learned, lead to intermingling the notion of “contextual” with another term, “autonomous”, and I want to clarify the separation. “Autonomous” is a popular term…
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Some of the questions and comments I’ve gotten on my blog on contextual services and point-of-activity empowerment ask at least implicitly for an expansion in one key point. I noted the importance of relating “location” of a service user to what is nearby, meaning “contextual location”. I didn’t note how one did that or how…