I was asked to give a short presentation to a large group of telecom regulators and other senior folks from related organizations from Asia and Africa. What other speakers saw as an opportunity to pitch their companies I used for ranting about regulatory shortcomings that should be addressed in order to make our award winning (three so far) Social ISP concept fly – or at least legal. The Social ISP: How communities and 3rd sector actors can fill gaps of the mobile networking ecosystem During...

As part of the LUT University led Carewings-5G project Poutanet is addressing the challenges of enabling automated airfields suitable for handling a growing number of increasingly powerful and intelligent drones. Drones were once one of the promising 5G use cases. Five years ago, still at major telco vendor, we predicted the air space to be filled with drones busy delivering goods, doing all sorts of inspections, collecting data and used widely for surveillance. As high reliability and low...

This is a slightly modified version of the Agile and affordable 5G presentation at XCHANGING IDEAS #50 Global 5G Evolution - 4th June, 2024. YouTube at 45min. The Poutanet journey to consumerized and affordable mobile networks started in 2015 when we still worked at Nokia. Facebook told us in the early days of the Telecom Infra Project that the way mobile networks are built is very old-fashioned. A lot of expertise and manual work is required. Facebook told us we could do better. So we gave...