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Andrew Grill speaks to Keith Dyer on Mobile Europe TV

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 [...]

Vodafone New Zealand launches innovative local zone home phone service

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 first time ever, [...]

Accurate home zones hold key to FMC: Telecoms Europe December 2007 page 23-24

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 ground [...]

Interview with inbabble.com

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 location based [...]

Andrew Grill speaking on inbabble.com about location based services

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 services.
First [...]

Seeker Wireless fixed mobile convergence breakthrough

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 determine [...]