Canada’s AWS auction finally finished yesterday, and there should be no doubt about the perceived value of wireless spectrum. The final take was $4.25 billion – that’s a lot of free money for the federal government, and that raises an issue unto itself. How those proceeds are spent – or invested – will say a lot about what kind of a country Canada wants to be. To me, it’s a philosophical issue as m...

This is one of those one-thing-leads-to-another posts. I'll start at the beginning, then work up the action item, and why you should tune in to Sheryl and Ken's Stardust Radio program - tonight at 9pm EST - to dispel the "myths" of Unified Communications. Here we go... On July 9, fellow industry watcher Carl Weinschenk had a thought-provoking post on his IT-Finance Connection portal about "the case...

I was recently contacted by a U.K.-based consultancy called Technology Appraisals Ltd. about a new study that I'm pretty sure you'll want to learn more about. I don't often talk about industry reports - especially those that aren't mine! - but mobile VoIP is such a happening market right now, and I don't think there's anything out there like this. They've just released a report on the mobile VoIP l...

Andy Abramson is widely regarded as one of the top bloggers in our space, and I cite him regularly. He's on the road again, this time on a two week European tour of duty, and his blog provides a great chronicle of the sights, sounds and tastes he's experiencing. Aside from the travelogue posts, I really want to share one of his posts from Monday, which I only just now had a chance to review. For an...

I've been quite busy writing recently on a number of fronts, and this is one I think you'll enjoy - not just for my thoughts, but all the other good content that's there as well. A couple of months back, I was approached to contribute to Tech Target's Ask the Expert series, and I've done a few of these for them. I'm actually doing a few more for them now, and will post about them in due course. Sin...