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Mark Evansthe blog - examines the world of telecom and technology from a distinctly Canadian perspective.the person - lives in Toronto, CA with his wife and three children, and works as director of community with PlanetEye Inc. 
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Friday, September 23
Cisco Ships 6Mth IP Phone
by
Mark Evans
on Fri 23 Sep 2005 02:44 PM EDT
Cisco has shipped its six millionth IP phone - to Westpac in Australia.
This landmark comes 11 months after shipping its four millionth phone.
According to Cisco lore, it took 4.5 years
to sell their first two million IP phones
and only 14 months to sell the second two million.
Bell Eliminates Bundle
by
Mark Evans
on Fri 23 Sep 2005 02:26 PM EDT
 Although it has not been widely report, Bell Canada
has ditched its digital bundle program, which means you no longer get a discount for buying two or more services. Bell said
the bundles "served their purpose" so there's no need to offer
broad-based deals. Strange, but I thought the whole idea behind bundles
was you got a a modest discount for being a good customer. Now, I can
understand making the bundle less sweet as Rogers
is doing but to totally eliminate them means Bell must rely on
the convenience factor. My take is that with 57% of Bell's
customers in Ontario and Quebec on a bundle already, the company
figures the market is close to saturation and it can do better
from a marketing and financial perspective by targeting specific
customers not on the bundle bandwagon. Of course, it's easy to
eliminate bundle discount or reduce their attractiveness when most of
your customers are locked into long-term contracts and/or don't have
much of a choice (i.e. more than two options) for services such as
high-speed Internet access and television. Another thing facing Bell is
it's probably squeezed as much as it can from operating costs so it has
to look for another ways to boost the bottom line - hence the chop to
the bundle discounts. Wonder if Bell's decision becomes a trend among
North American carriers and cablecos?
HotSpot Growth...and Google's Role
by
Mark Evans
on Fri 23 Sep 2005 11:03 AM EDT
With all the talk about Google's WiFi plans,
it was interesting to see InStat's expectations for hotspot growth over
the next four years. The research firm forecasts hotspot revenue will
climb to $3.5 billion by 2009 from $1-billion in 2005. Meanwhile,
InStat is looking for the number of hotspots worldwide will jump to
100K from 40K with cafes and restaurants being the most popular
locations as chains such as Starbucks, McDonald's and Panera Bread get
into the game. Pyramid Research
has even more aggressive projections, suggesting the number of hotspots
worldwide will be 308,000 by the end of 2009, compared to 125,000
in 2005. It will be interesting to see how Google's WiFi plans fit into
the growth of the hotspot market. If Google does, in fact, roll out its
own high-capacity fiber network with hotspots at the edge, will its
brand and popularity drive more people into the WiFi market. I've got a
cautious approach to WiFi given how EVDO is being rolled out by
wireless carriers and the rise of WiMax into the wireless mix. One
thing to remember with the number of hotspots is how easy and
inexpensive they are to set up given all you need to a high-speed
connection and wireless router.
Overwhelmed By Blog Spam!!
by
Mark Evans
on Fri 23 Sep 2005 07:22 AM EDT
 This really sucks! I've been forced to turn off my comments after
suddenly being hitting with a tidal wave of blog spam. Not sure why the
fine folks at Blogware weren't able to stop this crap - mostly porn -
but you can't be productive if you have to waste 30 minutes pruning your
comments and trackbacks. If want to comment on my posts for the next little while, please e-mail me. Tris Hussey, who also uses Blogware, has a couple critical post here and here
about being slammed by nearly 2,000 comment spams. Tris thinks there was a
direct attack on Blogware, and recommends other blog platforms look
for loopholes in their systems. (Update: Looks like Chocolate and Vodka, which also uses Blogware, also got inundated with spam)Blogware, which said it got hit really hard last night with spam, has apparently been working on an upgrade so an improved spam filter - along with some more user-friendly site stat tools - would be a welcome addition, particularly if Blogware has expansion plans in an increasingly competitive marketplace. |
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