There has been a lot of talk about the value of LTE for enabling high-bandwidth applications and services….primarily web browsing and associate services (e.g., You-Tube, Hulu, etc.).  Recently, though, there have been a number of articles and studies talking about the value of voice over LTE.  These include reports from industry experts including Brian Partridge at the Yankee Group (“IMS Finally Finds its ‘Calling” With Voice over LTE”, June 2010), Joe Madden & Stuart Carlaw a... [More]

In early August, David Pogue in the New York Times began a campaign, Take Back the Beep, to have phone companies cut back or eliminate many of the instructions that are played when leaving or listening to your voicemail. Specifically he raises the point that consumers don’t want or need to hear all the instructions abut how to leave a message, listen to their messages, reply, etc.    He’s probably right. When voicemail was introduced decades ago, detailed instructions we... [More]