Edward Finegold
Ed Finegold is CSO for Validas, a company that specializes in personalized user experiences that leverage analytics-as-a-service to simplify mobile buying, selling, pricing & billing. Ed has been a regular contributor to BillingViews.
As you may know, I generally write about things that puzzle me. Gartner’s Magic Quadrant has puzzled me for a while. How they come to some of the conclusions they come to puzzles many people. Witnesses state that they do not apply sufficient resources or time to look deeply enough at the companies they evaluate. […]
Quad play has finally arrived in the US and it’s here to kill standalone mobile. Dashing to the Bottom The US mobile market is essentially in a race to the bottom; that’s the net result of an accelerating price war. Most pricing in US mobile revolves around data packages; virtually no post-paid plans charge distinctly […]
Did anyone else notice that Nokia just bought Alcatel-Lucent for less than Facebook paid for WhatsApp in 2014? News broke on April 15 that Nokia has agreed to acquire Alcatel-Lucent for $16.6 billion/€15.6 billion in an all-stock deal. Compare that to news from February 2014 that had Facebook buying WhatsApp for $19 billion – a […]
We’ve seen a rash of stories, like this one from Forbes, that speculate whether the global market for high end smart phones has peaked. Despite the many reasons given for this shift in the market, no one seems to be talking about subsidies. Pundits are chalking up Apple, Samsung, and HTC’s reported sales declines to […]
From the Archives The Cloud that Billing now inhabits is a funnel cloud; spinning fast, throwing debris about, and creating chaos. The debate over simplicity versus sophistication resurfaces constantly, and there’s no right answer. The traditional telco folks will argue that you can’t run today’s communications businesses on something that mostly bills for flat rate […]
There was an awful lot of sexy new navigation technology demonstrated at this year’s Cable Show and it seems there’s a new gesture on the scene – “the fling.” This is a simple upward swipe of the finger while one is using a tablet or smartphone to search and browse video content. “The fling” takes […]
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