Yesterday I mentioned about Nokia Siemens Networks, and if a company like that should blog (or employees should blog) about what they do, network technologies and hardware (whats HSDPA, HSUPA, HSPA, CDRs, SGSNs, Flexi, IPSO, blah blah, blah).
[Image taken from this hardcore presentation. Its a little bit old though]
I have gotten some very very good comments about it, and I guess there is a list forming.
Stefan from RingNokia mentioned these topics:
* How the network has changed the emerging market regions.
* What is being worked on in the research labs that we might see in a few years.
* Semiconductor companies announcing base station and handset hardware that will take full advantage of the network.
* Some really technical pieces. I love the Discovery Channel since they can teach me anything about everything. Teach me what makes 3G so fast.
* Have a debate about the different technologies and bands. Why is there a need for quad band gsm and triband wcdma chips? Standards are useless if there are more than one.
akboom left a very good comment on Tommi’s blog mentioning:
* MSISDN retrieval on devices. The technicalities, limitations, future plans, etc.
* 3G technology, HSDPA, HSUPA,
* the Future,
* the mess with worldwide 3G bands (US),
* the QC patent mess.
Regarding the future, heh well, (a slight inside joke but) someone says “If you want to know what the future is, you have to invent it (its from one of the super screensavers Nokia BI send out:) ).
Another nice comment from Marcus Grober on Tommi’s s60 site was:
how the applications we can expect see as end users are largely shaped by what actually goes on in windowless, air-conditioned server farms…
Well, this one would be a good one, but it might be a little difficult, but doable.
I had mentioned that actually talking about live networks and operators might be difficult as there would be a certain amount of secrecy required. Carlo Longino from MobHappy mentioned:
they could always do so in hypothetical scenarios, or by getting the operators’ relevant PR people to sign off. But I think those types of blog entries could be less important
and that more interesting would be:
the wide range of issues and problems the networks business is dealing with, as well as the flood of new technologies it’s introducing.
So it seems in general people are interested more in the technologies, how the stuff works, and whats coming in the future. I am very interested in hearing what people would like to see. As you can see, I am pretty open to suggestions, ideas, and topics to cover. So keep the ideas coming.
Well thats perfect because:
1. I would be learning while I write, and
2. there would be less chances of getting into trouble from operators 
win-win!
One thing Carlo mentioned was the target audience, and I am not sure about that. Who is/should be the target audience?
So, this post is really to see what else people would be interested in hearing about.
Please leave me a comment telling me what you would be interested in. And if its possible, I’ll try and do it.
One other question: I had been thinking about either creating a new blog, or keeping it inside this blog. I like the idea of keeping it inside here, as I would have no “official looking” blog. It would be more posts about mobile network core technologies and things, combined with my personal stuff too.
What do people think about that?
Anyway, leave me a comment either way.
[tags] runningwithbulls.com , tommi vilkamo , nokia , nokia siemens networks , blogs , mobile network operators, mobile networks , ringnokia.com , mobhappy.com , martin sauter [/tags]
Bernard,
Don’t know if you got my three email (s), I have you down as winning one of the feedburner t-shirts.
Can you send me a reply (either to the original email , or to the email that I’ve given as part of this post) with a postal address that I can send out the gear to?
I need to send out the stuff to the rest of the guys , so if I dont hear from you by this evening, I’m going to have to send the gear to Bernie instead
Paul
hmmm, ok, so what could we possibly blog about that would be interesting for end-users (not just fellow engineers/geeks)… well:
New features that are in development, things like PoC (can anyone actually remember that, even though it’s reasonably new?), also when they might be able to get to use it (and maybe even start people requesting features from their operator).
How quality is measured on a network, and what end-users can do to improve their own experiences (such as anything that can be done to improve your own coverage/call quality).
A podcast/videocast looking at equipment, what role they play in the grand scheme of a network’s operation, and chats about the technology (a la Lugradio).
We’ve seen the S60 team’s fantastic blogs, but I’m sure we can produce something even more impressive :o)