Unstructured Supplementary Service Data or “USSD” is the stack used in Cellular Networks to offer interactive text based menus and systems to Subscribers. If you remember topping up your mobile phone credit via a text menu on your flip phone, there’s a good chance that was USSD*. For a period, USSD Services provided Sporting Scores, […]

Searching with CouchDB in Python

The #Telecom reading list for this year; including books on Submarine Cable Systems, the history of Cable & Wireless, Alcatel Lucent’s downfall and SS7.