The explosion of mobile video on the Internet and the rise and rise of social networking was the biggest single story in the communications sector in 2007. There’s no reason to believe that growth will not continue apace in 2008/ But the big breakthrough that Internet firms and telcos alike are waiting for is the […]

Here’s another piece published recently in our Intelligence Centre looking at the mobile broadband phenomenon:

HSPA is taking off among European operators, contributing to a surge in data traffic across the region in recent months. Industry figures show that some operators’ data traffic quadrupled in the nine months to end-2Q07.
Although the data surge has been caused […]

One of the big themes that we tried to bring out at the Mobile Industry Outlook event is mobile broadband.
HSDPA modems - or dongles - have been top-selling products in a number of European markets in the second and third quarter of 2007. We spoke to Carphone Warehouse about mobile broadband last week and they […]