Oliver Glenn

Company: mBlox.com

oliver.glenn@mblox.com

Having worked in both the London and San Francisco offices at mBlox, Oliver manages the strategic Premium and Standard Rate clients, has a local method of working but with a global mindset. Building strong valuable relationships has seen Oliver help grow the mBlox business month on month, year on year.

A nice little piece from my UK colleague Mike Adams, our Marketing Manager at mBlox... In 2011, the incorporation of Near Field Communication (“NFC”) on mobile phones will become ubiquitous thanks to a whole new generation of handsets from Apple, Nokia, RIM and the Android clones.  With an RFID chip built into most new handsets, contactless payments with a mobi...

What’s the golden rule of retail?  The customer is king! With 82% of consumers having used their mobile phone in a retail store and more than 50% of consumers preferring to use a mobile than a PC to surf the web, why don’t most retailers offer a mobile-optimised website and/or a mobile commerce app?   mBlox held a retail seminar in London on October 16th, and t...

 An interesting note by our Dir. Marketing Communications on the recent spring CTIA show held in SF... Having the advantage of hindsight, I have been thinking about the CTIA tradeshow in San Francisco. The official numbers were reported at 14,000 but as an exhibitor it did not feel like 14,000 to me. And if you visited the exhibit floor, it provided perhaps...

Looking at the various mobile app stores, I found 25 different SMS apps (such as textPlus, Skebby, Vopium, etc.) which all seem to offer free or ultra-cheap SMS messaging around the world, to either bypass the consumer’s carrier SMS plan, or to add SMS functionality to devices which don’t have a mobile carrier plan (such as the iPad and iPod touch).   It is intere...

We have all heard about how Europe is so much further ahead in mobile services than the US. But with over 90% of Americans now with a mobile phone subscription, the US has done quite a bit of catching up. That said, a recent survey by mBlox shows that for some mobile services, consumers in the UK are up to 3 times more likely than their US counterparts to choose te...

It's Friday, and I'm shamelessly plugging ... enjoy. Another great customer case study is now available featuring Vueling Airlines and our ASP client Mobiqa as they utilize the mBlox network to power mobile boarding passes. Ronnie Forbes, the CTO of Mobiqa says, “We have estimated that by using mobile boarding passes, Vueling will save 14 million sheets of pa...

Our latest mBlog offering ... With the upcoming Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) show, you may not be aware that there is actually a brawl going on between the city of San Francisco and CTIA. The first blow came when San Francisco passed a law that requires retailers to display SAR rating or levels or radiation levels emitted by wireles...

Please see the latest mBlog from mBlox... by Mike @ mBlox on September 13, 2010 An accepted industry definition of a smartphone is “a mobile phone which can run native (non-Java) apps”.   This definition seems completely out-of-sync with the reality of 5 billion mobile devices in use today around the world.  What consumers consider “smart” is the ability to...

It gives me great pleasure to introduce mBlox's latest white paper "The Role of SMS in Business Communications". This paper takes a horizontal approach to promoting the Power of Text Messaging by providing real case studies of in-market deployments. Learn how SMS is improving business communications, customer service and marketing! Contents: Introducing SMS Th...

One of my colleagues attended the recent Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) event in New York City this month, and when asked about the latest buzz and industry hot topics, I was rather surprised by her answer: “It’s all about text”. I don’t know why I was surprised, but really, I see it happening every day as a Key Account Manager here at mBlox. Perhaps it is beca...