The Future of Telecommunication

Yesterday, attended the technical talk entitled "The Future of Telecommunication - Technologies and Disruptions" by Roberto Sarraco, Chairman of European Center of Excellence in Telecommunication of Italia. He is one of the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. Yes, this is again part of the IEEE ComSoc activities. The whole technical talk was mainly emphasizing on the necessary of service provides to change their paradigms. To survive in the future, the service providers should put efforts on improving their value chains instead of just attracting more subscribers. I wonder whether the cellular providers in Malaysia have aware on this and do something to improve their services. They seem to keep on manipulating their subscription fees by offering plan A, plan B ….etc. but without any improvements on the services. I also frustrate with the advertisement of our local cellular providers that mislead our consumers. They keep putting the promising advertisement on 3G service, but I doubt the capabilities of them to deliver what they promise. Mr. Roberto also insists that telecommunication service providers have the wrong perspective regarding the broadband communication. Broadband communication is simply increasing the capacity or offering a big pipe to the customer but nothing to do with the speed. I think that majority of the consumers actually don’t care about what is broadband. They just want something that satisfy their needs and if possible, free of charge. “It’s free, so why I bother!” Overall, this was indeed an interesting talk.

For those who are interested in his talk, click on the following link:
http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/memprog/dislec/tut/saracco/saracco.html

A conversation between a 5 years old girl with her 60 years old grandmother:
“Maria! Your mum wants to talk to you. Come!” the old lady shouted.
“Coming now! Grandma,” the girl picked up the phone and started walking away.
The phone fell down and broke. The old lady scolded the girl.
Then, the girl asked, “Grandma, why you tie your phone on the wall?”