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Distribution to villages vital to Indian success
It’s one thing for Indian operators to boast how many base stations they’ve rolled out, or how cheap their tariffs are, but how operators physically get services out to customers in the villages will be one of the key make-or-break differentiators for the country’s mobile operators.
The plain fact is that distribution right to the heart of the village will prove critical to any Indian operator.
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LTE chipsets face lackluster market
Semiconductor companies have made backward-compatibility a selling point for 4G chipsets as the recession stalls the rollout of Long Term Evolution networks.
At last week’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) trade show in Barcelona, Spain, only US-based operator Verizon Wireless committed to the commercial launch of a Long Term Evolution network in 2010. Verizon CTO Dick Lynch made the announcement when the company awarded Ericsson a contract to supply it with LTE RAN and packet-core equipment. Read more »
GSMA UCS campaign gathers steam - and big names
The campaign by the GSMA for implementing a Universal Charging Scheme (UCS) by 2012, looks to be gathering steam with operators and device vendors including Vodafone, T-Mobile, Telefonica, Orange, Motorola, Nokia and Sony Ericsson the latest big-name players to join. Read more »
Vodafone looks to Africa in the hope of reversing ARPU decline
As any operator knows it’s no mean feat launching and establishing a presence in new markets, as Vodafone’s experience in Turkey attests. But the operator is likely to find that Africa offers it no respite from the falling-ARPU trend it is experiencing elsewhere. Read more »
Cellcos are finally getting payback from 3G as non-SMS data revenues soar
It’s hard to imagine an industry that generates US$200 billion in global revenues – a figure that’s growing 35% a year – as anything other than an outstanding success story. But for some time there has been a widely held view that the mobile content sector is failing to live up to expectations, 3G has disappointed and mobile operators have thrown away an opportunity to develop a revenue stream that could ultimately surpass the voice business.
Customer service is not just a necessary evil
You would think that by now, US mobile operators would have learned that delivering decent customer service can be a competitive advantage and that providing dismal customer service is always a disadvantage. Read more »
FTTH Council Europe: “Get down with the kids” vs “This is business not philanthropy”
Along with four other colleagues, I’m attending the FTTH Council Europe Conference in Copenhagen. It seems busy: at least as busy as last year in Paris, if not actually busier. There is no shortage of enthusiasm for broadband access over fibre either, though one or two presentations this morning cooled the ardour of the enthusiasts and proselytes. Read more »
Cost reduction, effective technology deployment, (mobile) Internet devices and web services will be the key themes at this year’s Mobile World Congress
Exhibitors at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona face a tough challenge. How can they both showcase new mobile Internet devices, mobile applications and next generation mobile broadband network technology while at the same time satisfy operators’ overriding single objective in 2009 – cutting costs as the mobile industry faces up to the global economic downturn? Read more »
Mobile broadband, TV white spaces and Smart radios
We have to admit, web on mobile phones is simply not friendly. And it’s because mobile devices and applications are not built for the web. Read more »
Ya-har! The Pirate Bay busts some piracy and peer-to-peer myths
The Pirate Bay, one of the world’s leading peer to peer sites and tormentor in chief of the music and movie industries, has released statistics breaking down the location of its users by country. Read more »
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