Planning on attending the MVNOs World Congress later this month in Nice? Us too. Our own Tom Leins will be on the scene at the Nice Acropolis April 24-27. He's set to judge the MVNO Awards, which will be announced at the annual MVNOs Awards Party on Wednesday, April 26.
As WAN Summit New York swiftly approaches, we thought we'd give you a look at who is set to attend this year's conference. (Warning: it's a packed lineup this year. Our list is pretty long.)
"From a booth set up in Grand Central Terminal, a person could talk to a friend in Chicago or Washington while also seeing them on a small video screen. The friend would also have to go to a special booth in those cities to take the call. The price for the novelty of a three-minute call was $16.
That would be equivalent to $121 in today’s money."
Cable breaks occur more often than you might think. Research presented in this paper counted 14 different cable failures in U.S. territorial waters or exclusive economic zone between 2008 and 2012.
Spring has sprung. If you're a TeleGeographer, that means there are lots of telecoms conferences on the horizon and, subsequently, lots of in-flight reading to get in order.
This month, our reading queue includes lots of mobile stats, a peek inside Microsoft's global network, and a closer look at events rocking South Africa's MTN and China's ZTE Corp.
Another year gone by and we find ourselves packing our bags for Capacity Latin America. Our own Anahí Rebatta, Cynthia Sandoval, and Lilian Lea will be in Rio de Janeiro on March 28 and 29 for Latin America's largest wholesale telecoms meeting.
Alan Mauldin, Research Director here at TeleGeography, knows his way around submarine cables.
Perhaps you've already gotten a taste of this know-how by reading his recent set of sub cable FAQs on our blog. Or maybe you've caught one of his recent presentations on why we need more submarine cables - and why we don't.
