Jeremy Cowan
Founder, Publisher and Editorial Director with Prestige Media
Jeremy is the founder of Prestige Media Ltd (PML) and co-founder of WeKnow Media Ltd (WKM), the parent companies of VanillaPlus and M2M Now, respectively. Launched in 1999, the VanillaPlus portfolio includes VanillaPlus Magazine, VanillaPlus Directory (both available in print and online), and VanillaPlus Bites, a free monthly email news service, as well as VanillaPlus.com which features Digital Editions, Video Interviews, Latest News, Features, Special Reports and Webinar Podcasts.
From 1993-99, Jeremy was managing editor of the communications division at Nexus Communications with editorial and business development responsibility for 12 communications publications including Mobile Europe, Mobile Asia Pacific, Mobile & Cellular (UK), Mobile Middle East & Africa, Mobile Latino America, Communications News, Cabling World, and Network Europe.
It is imperative for chief information officers (CIOs) to focus on implementing digital transformation. A report from Level 3 Communications, Inc. and IDG Connect, says digital transformation is a key focus for organisations across key Western Europe markets, with 60% of current IT investment designed to support future business expansion and growth. Meanwhile, almost two-thirds (64%) […]
OK, rewind five years. Imagine you’re the CEO of a US-based computer software company that since 1985 has specialised in 2-dimensional & 3D design software, product, application and service lifecycle management (PLM, ALM & SLM), and service management solutions. Long story short, you already help enterprise customers from mining to oil & gas, and manufacturing […]
The US, Singapore and Sweden lead the way in digitising their economies. So says Huawei’s newly released 2016 Global Connectivity Index (GCI). However, as I reported, there have been global improvements — and a few declines — in national levels of economic digitisation. The greatest improvements worldwide have been seen in broadband coverage and speed, but countries […]
KORE has agreed to buy Wyless for an undisclosed sum, “making close to a quarter of a billion dollar player” in the Internet of Things (IoT). So says KORE’s CEO, Alex Brisbourne, talking to IoT Now prior to the announcement. The friendly acquisition has been agreed and signed by both Boards and “was greeted positively […]
The author is Alan Coleman, CEO of Brite:Bill I love my phone, I look at it 70-80 times a day, according to a survey I read recently. But when it comes to my network? The best emotion I can muster is indifference. I lost my phone recently and I lost my ability to know the […]
Regulation, partnerships and connected people are the three biggest trends that will impact the telecoms industry in 2016, according to global entrepreneur David McCourt. McCourt, who has been at the forefront of telecoms innovation over the past 30 years, believes much of this change will come from the developing world, while citing Uber and Airbnb as […]
Revenue losses and fraud may be higher on the agenda for communication service providers (CSPs) following independent research released by Neural Technologies. A new global survey of 113 CSPs has found that these losses have now reached 13.1 percent of gross revenues. Let’s take a moment to consider that, says Jeremy Cowan. For every $100 […]
This article was first contributed by Robert Hagan of Redknee. The concept for delivering voice services used to be simple; the communications service provider (CSP) helped the subscriber to connect with other subscribers – this was the value a customer perceived and paid for. Most CSPs transferred this concept to mobile data by continuing to provide […]
Beecham Research is warning companies planning to get into the Internet of Things (IoT) market not to believe all the hype and over–optimistic predictions. Some industry commentators are forecasting the number of connected devices at anywhere between 10 billion and 50 billion by 2020, and trillions of dollars in new revenue by 2025. The analyst […]
As global chief marketing officer of newly enlarged NETSCOUT, Jim McNiel expects service providers like Tesco to be first to disrupt the market and maximise new digital revenues. Here McNiel tells Jeremy Cowan how they’ll beat mobile network operators to drive new digital services. “Everything we do involves digital services as consumers. We found our […]
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