Telework needs structure and training

The results of what is perhaps the largest study into teleworking undertaken in Australia and New Zealand have just been released. Its findings on the benefits of teleworking for both employees and employers are pretty positive.

Evolved MBMS: Making Broadcasters Mighty Scared?

“Telstra just became a video broadcaster - for a short spell at least.” That was how GigaOM reported Telstra’s trial of Evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (eMBMS), announced by Telstra yesterday in a blog post, and undertaken with network supplier Ericsson and chip maker Qualcomm.

What CIOs needs: Contrariness, courage and compassion

Spare a thought for CIOs. Depending on whose views your read they are an endangered or embattled species, or both, or they are in pole position to advance their influence in the corporate pecking order.

Pedalling the 5G hype cycle

Remember all the hype around 4G that preceded its implementation? In retrospect it all seems to have been justified. 4G - or to give its correct terminology, Long Term Evolution (LTE) -has been a stunning success. The increased bandwidth and lower latency it offers are ideally suited to the demands of a burgeoning population of super-smart phones, tablets and dongle-connected laptop computers.

In search of Turnbull’s NBN cost/benefit analysis

Communications minister Malcolm Turnbull was quick to refute accusations from his predecessor, Stephen Conroy, that the Coalition had backed off on its commitment to commission a cost-benefit study on the NBN, but I’m with Conroy on this one.

GSMA miffed that Apple won’t join joyn

Heard of joyn? No? I’m not surprised. It’s not exactly a household name, although the global cellular network operator community would like it to be.

How to cater for a 1000x increase in mobile data traffic

Earlier this month speaking at a Communications Alliance Forum, Telstra CEO, Hugh Bradlow, fired the opening salvo in what is likely to ramp up to be major battle for spectrum presently allocated to Australian Defence Forces. 

Copper loop length revealed

Cliff Gibson of GQI Consultancy made a stunning revelation at the CommsDay conference in Melbourne yesterday: that 80 percent of premises in Australia are with 500 metres of one of the existing pillars in Telstra’s telephone network.

When big data meets bio data

I was invited to spend a few days last week at the users conference of data analytics company Splunk. Here’s my thoughts on that event.