Gabriel Brown

Status update: swift stop at the Orbit Beers taproom

Good summary. I ride my own bike most of the time. But also use Lime frequently. Lime and Forest bikes are super popular for the under 30s in London. A little pricey but super convenient and quick to get around

Ofcom takes world-leading action to crack down on exploitation of mobile networks by criminals Ofcom has today announced new rules that will make the UK a world leader in protecting people from the malicious use of mobile networks.

UK @ofcom.bsky.social is “banning the leasing of special types of phone numbers known as ‘Global Titles’.

Criminals can use Global Titles to intercept and divert calls and messages, and get their hands on information held by mobile networks.”

www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-b...

I'm sore becasue Google just deleted a decade or so of maps timeline "by accident"

“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris”

Great way to open a blog post. Love it!

The Mediocrity of Modern Google
om.co/2025/03/29/t...

And yet there are dozens of ways telcos sell connectivity. Everyone in telco marketing knows that customer tiers matter. Sometimes technical proposals get reversed in that way.

Good strategy -- if you meet the right people and are switched-on, information will find a way through.

The amount of telecom industry news flow and pre-briefing ahead of #MWC2025 is... a lot. Impossible to keep track of everything interesting going on.

At the event itself (and associated dinners/drinks) I prioritize in-person meetings and catchups, largely with non UK folk

Commscope and now Corning getting out of indoor wireless

Good article -- potential for integration between modem and compute is another avenue of interest

6.1" is about the ideal screen size, imo

A few comments on in here that many smartphone users would settle for:

5G only needs to be so fast
Cameras only so good
Screens only so bright
Charging only so rapid

The no compromise seems to be battery life

For the Italian fixed line incumbent to miss a stretch target that was more aspiration than reality, is about the least surprising outcome I can imagine

Prepping for #MWC2025 where I will moderate the O-RAN ALLIANCE Summit

Join in person or watch free online on 4 March, 9:00-13:00 CET. Register: www.o-ran.org/summit-mwc25

#ORANALLIANCE #MWC25

Beautiful morning in London. Crisp and sunny. Cycled to the office today without a single red light and without putting my foot down once!

Why Verizon hid its 5G network in the Super Bowl stadium Finding Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile's antennas and radios installed throughout Caesars Superdome is no easy task. But the service providers planned it that way.

Kelsey Ziser on @Light_Reading is now the go to reporter for the write-up on Super Bowl cellular infrastructure

www.lightreading.com/5g/why-veriz...

The long black: will this soon be the UK’s favourite coffee order? Fans of the drink, brewed differently from an americano, say its taste is vastly superior – and are turning a niche product into a bestseller

I've been a "long black" coffee drinker forever already

www.theguardian.com/food/2025/fe...

Breakingviews - AI and fiber bust parallel is partly hallucinated The qualitative parallels between Monday’s artificial intelligence bust and the one that hit wildly free-spending telecommunications firms some 25 years ago are uncanny. The quantitative resemblance is mostly hallucinated.

This brings back some memories

www.reuters.com/breakingview...

By @robcyran.bsky.social

Open RAN is like Liverpool winning the league (or Man Utd being good again). There's always next year ;)

I thought we'd see more SRE Ops style teams within telecom

A pretty good top 3. Resiliency is probably the hardest -- there's always something to go wrong

I spent a week working, exercising and relaxing in virtual reality. I’m shocked to say it finally works | Ed Newton-Rex Bar some glitches, I think a tipping point has been reached, says Ed Newton-Rex, founder of Fairly Trained, a non-profit that certifies AI companies that respect creators’ rights

'Don’t count on small, rectangular screens being how humanity communicates with machines for ever'

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

23,500 of 81,000 UK sites now have 5G. That's about 25% growth in 5G sites in about a year. Of these 23,500, only 3,300 (15%) are 5G standalone, carrying 14% of the 5G traffic.

It's anecdotal but Vodafone seems to use a lot of Band 7 (2.6GHz FDD) in London. Great strategy

(While I'm waiting for evey to turn up)

Status update

Congrats! ;)

IBM guy doing a pretty good job of explaining the basics of LLM point. His conclusion, naturally, is that operators should use vendors…

At the Telecom TV event on Telco AI in London today. 2nd year of the event… Last year a bunch of discussion about telco-specific LLMs… doubt we’ll hear much of that again in 2024.

Or maybe just fresh energy to take the strategy onward ... It's going to take a while longer yet!

Intel missing the AI boom was due to decisions taken years before Gelsinger