We’ve been following with great interest the debate on data roaming charges in Europe. The latest person to dive into the debate is Ed Richards who heads up UK telecoms regulator Ofcom. He notes that it can cost four times more to send an SMS in a European country other than your home market. Data […]

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 […]