Tony Poulos
Tony is a freelance writer, regular speaker, MC and chairman for the telecoms and digital services industries worldwide. He has founded and managed software and services companies, acts a market strategist and is now Editor of DisruptiveViews. In June 2011, Tony was recognized as one of the 25 most influential people in telecom software worldwide.
The recent rash of cybersecurity breaches should have increased business awareness of risk that comes with being part of the digital economy. Yet, sadly, risk awareness and risk preparedness are not always high on the list of priorities of most businesses and small to medium enterprises in particular. You would expect that companies like communications […]
The ITU”s AI for Good Global Summit was something altogether different. It’s as if the ITU had had a heart (and brain) transplant. I was invited to Geneva last week to attend an unusual ITU event. You remember the ITU – it was the center of the telecoms universe before GSM and mobiles took over […]
It’s almost a cliché to look at the hype around 5G these days and think, “not another G!” But look closely and you’ll see that 5G is more than “just another G” – it’s an altogether different story. In this candid interview from CommunicAsia 2017 in Singapore, Dirk Wolter, MD for Mobile Service Provider Solutions […]
Futurist, CommunicAsia keynote speaker and Fast Future CEO Rohit Talwar joins Tony Poulos to freely dispense advice to telcos on why they should stick to their knitting. In this candid, and sometimes irreverent discussion, Talwar and Poulos openly discuss what has and hasn’t worked for communications service providers in the past and how they should learn from […]
If your 12-year-old was watching six hours of TV per day you would probably be concerned? What effect would that would have on their ability to concentrate on schoolwork, homework, sporting activities, hobbies, etc. – one can only hazard a guess. Not exactly. A recent study of 12-year-olds in Singapore discovered that they were spending […]
The dawn of the internet age has helped big-name companies emerge to become behemoths of industry, worth billions of dollars and employing thousands of people. Amazon is one example from the early 1990s that has grown beyond all recognition compared to its early days, but other smaller outfits such as Grubhub have also used the […]
Is this a genuine security scare, just another way to collect money from us or the end of air travel as we know it? I am referring to the latest ‘security measure’ being initiated by the USA and UK forcing passengers emanating from a number of Middle East and North African airports to check in […]
I came away from Barcelona this year ‘virtually’ bewildered. It’s the first time that I have honestly wondered where the telecoms industry is heading. The theme of this year’s event was ‘The Next Element’. I’m not sure we’ve even mastered ‘the last element’, whatever that was. Are we just making stuff up as an excuse […]
You would be forgiven for missing one of the biggest and most disturbing industry headlines in years because it came and went last week, completely over-shadowed by Mr Trump’s goings-on. I refer to the monumental goings-on at BT Italia that was found to have been overstating profits for several years. BT first became aware of […]
Satoshi Nakamoto is a person known more from the rumor and myths surrounding his life than any actual facts. His story is compelling simply because he’s an anonymous individual in a world where anonymity is a rare thing. After all, the development of the internet and social media ensures that everybody has a record somewhere. So, […]
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