Martin Morgan
With 25 years’ experience in mobile communications software, Martin has worked in mobile billing software since the early days of the industry. As such he’s been around long enough to have had numerous articles published. He has spoken at many conferences. He’s served on the boards of software companies and trade associations. At Openet Martin is responsible for marketing thought leadership and demand creation.
FCC Plans to Dismantle Net Neutrality Reported as a” Victory for Telecoms”. On 21st November the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) in the US announced plans to repeal Net Neutrality rules. This is the beginning of the end for Net Neutrality legislation in the US. There will be lobbying, appeals and counter appeals but this looks […]
In his keynote address to the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Shanghai, Telstra CEO, Andrew Penn, said that operators need to get ready for falling consumer data prices. To the point where the price could reach zero in the next 5 – 10 years. Last week in the Openet blog Barry Marron wrote about the […]
“We’ve spent zillions of dollars on BSS but who is in need of a bill?” This was the question asked by KPN CTO Eric Hoving during a panel discussion at the recent TMF Live event in Nice. This is not a new question. There’s been a lot of debate going on for the last 5 years […]
It’s fair to say that net neutrality in the US looks like it’s on the way out. Now the previously grey area of zero rating can take centre stage and service providers can use it in many ways to grow their businesses. The traditional telco service provider model of ‘here’s a bundle of here’s 10 GB […]
TelecomAsia ran an article on January 11th 2017 on a report from Juniper saying that OTT substitution will cost operators $104 billion this year. Juniper says that the impact of OTT substitution will be the equivalent to 12% of operators’ service revenues. No real surprise there. Voice, messaging and text are all pretty much now commoditised. […]
Report from the Annual Policy Management Conference in Berlin. Conferences used to be good. Then they got rubbish and the numbers dried up. Operators didn’t want to spend money paying for people to attend lots of conferences. Vendors became fed up of using their marketing budgets to go and talk to other vendors. Some specialist telecoms conferences […]
Municipal Wi-Fi – free, fast and here – what can mobile operators do about it? On Tuesday 5th January the first of a new network of Wi-Fi kiosks providing free to use Wi-Fi was unveiled in New York City. LinkNYC will replace 7,500 phone boxes with Wi-Fi kiosks. These will include a hands-free phone, an Android […]
CSPs are looking to become leaner and more agile organisations. With this comes an increased focus on the reduction of CapEx and OpEx budgets – where network-function virtualisation (NFV) can play a major role by enabling CSPs to turn up services in minutes rather than months. But, for those CSPs looking at the potential of […]
Last week many of telecom’s brightest and best IT folks gathered in Copenhagen for the annual ETIS Gathering. I, alongwith the luminaries from DisruptiveViews, spent the best part of two days talking with operators, analysts and vendors about innovation. We had a speaker from Google telling us all not to be afraid of failure. We […]
Google’s new mobile program, Project Fi, hasn’t even launched service yet the potential impact of how they provide mobile service could cause some changes in the mobile market. They market their service based on three core pillars: The Network, The Plan and The Experience. Google’s Message on The Network “See how we use new technology […]
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