Veteran reporter Ephraim Schwartz covers his dinner with AT&T’s Hossan Eslambolchi. Fascinating stuff. According to Eslambolchi, AT&T is a data company, not a voice company, and their future is "Services over IP", or SoIP. I think they’ll need to involve the marketing department before they go public with that name.
What does that mean? As an example, according to Eslambolchi, AT&T can already predict the emergence of new viruses using stochastic analysis. Merely by analyzing the 1700 TB of data they carry on a daily basis, they can see new viruses in the wild before they spread.
Eslambolchi also drops hints about AT&T’s WiMAX plans.
As I’ve said before, AT&T is reconstructing it’s pre-breakup, coast to coast network.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
