Congratulations to the team at my old company, Seeker Wireless who have picked up the Vodafone Innovation Partner of the Year award from Vodafone New Zealand. As the one responsible for the Vodafone New Zealand deal in the first place (I was their 3rd employee back in 2004 and ran Sales and Business Development), it is great [...]
UPDATE:Read a review of the LocalZone service in New Zealand PC World, were Ted Gibbons says “My verdict: the service works seamlessly.” Auckland and London, July 3, 2008 – Seeker Wireless, one of the leading location based service technology companies announced today that its SeekerZone™ solution has been deployed to power the new Local Zone [...]
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Posted July 3, 2008
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Tagged fixed mobile substitution, home calling, home zone, homezone, local zone, local zone review, localzone, nz pc world, seeker wireless, ted gibbons, vodafone, vodafone new zealand, vodafone nz
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Andrew Grill (right) recently spoke with Keith Dyer, Editor of Mobile Europe Magazine at the Femtocell Europe 2008 conference in London. In the short (5 minute) interview, Andrew explains how the Seeker Wireless zone detection technology can be used to enhance the femtocell proposition, and also be used for fixed mobile substitution (HomeZone) services as well [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted July 3, 2008
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Tagged andrew grill, conference, femtocell, fixed mobile substitution, fms, homezone, interview, keith dyer, mobile, mobile advertising, mobile europe, mobile europe tv, video, zone detection
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Vodafone New Zealand Media release: 30 June 2008 With new local zone from Vodafone, your Vodafone mobile does two jobs, working as both your mobile and your landline. Once you’ve set up your zone, your mobile becomes your landline when you enter your local zone, and when you leave it becomes your mobile again. For the [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted June 30, 2008
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Tagged fixed mobile substitution, fms, home phone, home zone, homezone, lbs, local calling, local zone, location, nz, seeker wireless, SIM, vodafone, vodafone new zealand
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UPDATE: This opinion piece appeared in the December 2007 issue of Telecoms Europe. See the article on page 23-24 at http://www.mcubedigital.com/interactive/telecomseurope/25122007/ The battle lines are becoming blurred in today’s telecoms market. Fixed line operators are moving into mobile operator territory with Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) while mobile operators are fighting to take over fixed line [...]
I was recently interviewed by Richard Tucker (a fellow Aussie) from inbabble.com during a recent media tour for Seeker Wireless. He kindly blogged about the intereview – produced below with his permission. Interview: Andrew Grill, Seeker Wireless, on their location based technology Seeker Wireless provides location awareness technology for mobile phones, but rather than offer [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted November 8, 2007
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Tagged andrew grill, fixed mobile substitution, fms, home zone, homezone, inbabble.com, interview, PR, revenue leakage, seeker wireless, zone detection
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Andrew Grill will be a keynote speaker at the LBS 2007 conference to be held from Mon 08 Oct 2007 – Thu 11 Oct 2007 at the Melia Avenida America Hotel, Madrid, Spain. See more information at http://www.iir-conferences.com/lbs2007 Andrew will be outlining the latest Fixed Mobile Substitution offering from location specialists, Seeker Wireless. As location enabling [...]
Interview: Andrew Grill, GM Sales and Marketing of Seeker Wireless on location based services Seeker Wireless has developed solutions to provide location based services on existing unmodified 2G and UTMS handsets. I asked Andrew Grill, GM Sales and Marketing of Seeker Wireless an open question on his view of the future of wireless based location [...]
By Andrew Grill, General Manager and Head of Sales, Seeker Wireless Fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) is a concept to be applauded and if it achieves its aims, it is set to make all our lives easier. The noble aim of FMC is to marry the convenience of mobile with the high quality and speed of fixed [...]
Seamless integration with fixed network services is the goal of many mobile operators, but available solutions all have major shortcomings. An Australian wireless location specialist claims to have come up with technology that addresses these. The solution developed by Seeker Wireless in essence relies on a small application running in the cellphone which is ableto [...]
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Posted October 3, 2006
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Tagged convergence, fixed mobile convergence, fixed mobile substitution, fms, home zone, homezone, LBS.location based advertising, local zone, location based services, seeker wireless, vodafone, vodafone new zealand, vodafone romania
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UK carrier will introduce a corporate service that links the fixed and mobile networks. September 14, 2006 Source: http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=18558&hed=BT+Dials+Phone+Convergence British Telecom, the United Kingdom’s largest telecommunications company, said Thursday it will introduce BT Corporate Fusion, a fixed-mobile convergence service targeted at large corporations. The telecom company, which is in the process of a $17-billion upgrade [...]
Source: siddey.wordpress.com Having operated in “stealth mode” for nearly two years, Australian company Seeker Wireless has revealed that it is in the progress of deploying its high-accuracy mobile location based services enabling technology to a number of European mobile network operators. Formed in 2003, Seeker Wireless has developed a means to reach sub-100 metre location [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted September 21, 2006
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Tagged andrew grill, australian company, cell-ID, europe, femtocell, fixed mobile substitution, fms, gps, home zone, homezone, lbs, location, revenue leakage, seeker wireless, vodafone, vodafone romania
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