Blog - Latest Posts

How Mobile Operators Can Leverage Wi-Fi for Their Location-based Services

March 11, 2010

March 11, 2010 by rmeyer

by Kumar Thangamuthu, Principal Product Manager, Location

Wi-Fi has emerged as an extremely popular means of powering location-based services (LBS) since its accuracy is sufficient for most social networking and places-of-interest (POI) applications.

The incredible popularity of consumer Wi-Fi ($50 access points deployed in homes and businesses) creates a wealth of 802.11 reference points which can be leveraged for handset positioning, especially useful in urban and suburban commercial districts.

Tags:

A Cure for Bill Shock

March 03, 2010

March 03, 2010 by administrator

by John Giere, SVP Products and Marketing

The term Bill Shock describes the shock mobile subscribers experience when their monthly bill is unexpectedly high. Leading causes of bill shock are roaming charges, talking or surfing the web (data roaming) in areas beyond your service coverage. Bill shock usually results in heated customer service calls, strongly worded emails, and ultimately customer churn. The scarier part as the old saying goes is: you ain't seen nothing yet. Increased data roaming in the form of video usage will take this bill shock to a new order of magnitude.

Tags:

The Other Apps Story

March 02, 2010

March 02, 2010 by administrator

by Ken Denman, Openwave CEO

All this excitement around application development is great for the industry, but I can't help feeling that the headlines miss a bigger point. Mobile networks are stressed. All those sexy devices and applications are only as valuable as the quality of service. Hardware solutions such as LTE and 4G will alleviate the strain, but network upgrades are multi-year projects, and some forecasts have demand exceeding constraints of even future capacity.

Tags:

Thoughts from the Long Flight Home

February 25, 2010

February 25, 2010 by administrator

by Ken Denman, Openwave CEO

Despite being exhausted on the long flight back from Barcelona, I kept replaying everything that I had heard and seen at MWC. Just as data services reach new levels of demand, Openwave is embarking on its next chapter as a context-aware mediation company, a provider of smart solutions that help our customers take into account all the different devices, networks, content and user behaviors to maximize limited bandwidth and deliver the best online experience.

Tags:

Ken Denman Guest Blogging from Mobile World Congress

February 15, 2010

February 15, 2010 by administrator

Openwave CEO, Ken Denman, is guest blogging over at Mobile Marketing Magazine with a post entitled "It’s All About Data." It’s a great post about the dramatic rise in data traffic, essentially asking the million-dollar question: Who’s going to pay for mobile broadband?

Read the blog post at http://www.mobilemarketingmagazine.co.uk.

Tags: