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What Kind of Internet and Telephone Systems do you use on your marine (Sail/Motor Yacht) to save money on communication costs?
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9. July 2009 by admin.
http://www.cable360.net/ct/ (Communications Technology) [received by email bulletin.]
Consumers are becoming more loyal to their telecommunications devices than to their network service providers, according to a 2009 Telecommunications Industry Issues Index released today.
The report was commissioned by Jajah, an IP telephony company, to evaluate how carriers view the IP communications market. It is compiled through interviews with C-Level executives at U.S. and European telcos.
Some key findings of the 2009 Index include:
• The global shift from landline to wireless is driving telcos to offer new services intended to help retain revenue.
• Carriers are increasingly concerned about the threat from competitors outside the telco sector.
• Many carriers recognize they need to drive innovation but have not been successful in developing new services to date and are now having R&D budgets cut. They need to find a route to innovation that allows them to get new products and services into the market quickly.
• Carriers are no longer looking for a “killer app” to solve their problems, but are focusing on customer retention and finding the right mix of new services.
The full report prepared by J Arnold & Associates, the analyst consultancy engaged by Jajah for the research, is available at http://www.jajah.com/press.
Jajah hopes to fill the need
In addition to releasing its Industry Issues Index, Jajah today also announced new services to enable VoIP calls to be made for BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Symbian. Jajah announced a similar service for the iPod touch earlier this month.
The new services are intended to enable VoIP calls to be made either via Wi-Fi or over the cellular network on consumers’ existing devices, said Paul Naphtali, Jajah’s VP Global Marketing. The services are offered as white label solutions for carriers and non-carriers to launch under their own brand.
Naphtali said no deals with providers have been announced yet, but conversations are underway. Carriers with their own networks could deploy the service themselves. “But we also offer our own back-end solution,” Naphtali said. “We can do full call termination in more than 200 countries, as well as the billing system, the payment system and customer service. A network is just part of the answer. We call it the full end-to-end solution.
“In some cases, we do tap into the last mile of the cellular network,” he added. “We’re not taking on the carriers. At the same time the carriers have a lot of needs to innovate with a short time to market. These are all downloadable apps that will work immediately from the device.”
Asked how the makers of the devices react to Jajah’s software solutions, Naphtali said, “There’s been no negative response whatsoever. The truphone has a similar application on the Apple Store.”
CT recently reported video applications for BlackBerry; for the full story, click here.
- Linda Hardesty
Read more news and analysis on Communications Technology’s Web site at www.cable360.net/ct/news/.
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9. July 2009 by admin.
Brennon Slattery
Jul 8, 2009 10:14 am
When news of Michael Jackson’s death hit the wire on June 25, the Web crumbled beneath its weight. AOL went down in flames. News sites were overloaded with page views. Twitter was smothered by the Fail Whale. So when Jackson’s memorial service was announced, the Internet prepared itself for a massive influx of streaming video, tweets, status updates, and more. This time it survived.
(more at the link above…)
* By the way “The Internet” (some think it is The Web, there isn’t a WEB - it’s a bunch of “stuff” that travels over “The Internet”) isn’t just some sites that had troubles due to Michael Jackson events. It’s a lot of other sites and servers and routers and backbone connections. And no doubt all of that didn’t go DOWN due the Michael Jackson events.
The Internet is a distributed network of hosts … from end users on WiFI, Cellular 3g, Cable Modem, DSL, and such - to Servers and Virtual Servers with Web Sites, to the Backbone and Interconnect Points (Peering/Exchanges) as well as Content Caching and Mirroring Services such as Akamai. Certain servers … maybe even their routers or Internet connections might have gotten a bit bogged down. But that isn’t whole Internet people. My web sites stayed up just fine.
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9. July 2009 by admin.
(see the bulk of this article at the link above.)
After almost two years of back and forth, there is finally a deal in place that will guarantee the future health of Internet radio. If you haven’t heard, Internet radio services like Pandora, Blip.Fm, and Last.fm were in trouble because the royalty fees imposed on them in 2007 were more than double what they were paying previously and threatened to drive Internet radio into extinction. Royalty fees are paid to copyright-holders for the right to broadcast a specific piece of music.
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Not So Radical Suggestion
Internet radio says it will survive, and so will satellite radio, while traditional radio is in decline. So where do we go from here? I have to admit, I’m a traditionalist and I’m just not buying the music industry’s argument that they need to charge royalties to Internet radio, or any radio for that matter.
I honestly believe that radio in any form exposes an artist to new audiences, and this exposure can lead to increased album sales, concert attendance, and so on. Internet radio is an ideal channel for exposing listeners to new music, since Internet radio is all about finding music that you may not have discovered on your own. It’s an innovative setup that owes a lot to early pioneers like Pandora.
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* > I’m a traditionalist and I’m just not buying the music industry’s argument that they need to charge royalties to Internet radio, or any radio for that matter.
* That’s my thinking as well. Hey check out http://www.redeyeradionetwork.com !
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