Highlights from the Mobile World Congress - Mobile Operators

Posted by Mark Newman

February 19th, 2008

Mobile Internet
Mobile Internet has now re-emerged as the ‘umbrella’ term for mobile operators’ strategy towards delivering non-voice, non-messaging services to the consumer market. Almost without exception mobile operators are claiming to embrace the open Internet but at the same time, they continue to strive to develop their own services in specific market segments.
The preferred model […]

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Highlights from the Mobile World Congress - Mobile no-shows

Posted by Mark Newman

February 14th, 2008

Sometimes you can glean more from the companies and themes that fail to make an appearance at the Mobile World Congress than those that do have a strong presence.
Notable absentees from the event this year were Apple – although this was not particularly surprising given Apple’s track record of attendance at trade shows generally. More […]

Posted in Networks, Handsets & Devices, Mobile Operator

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Mobile Roaming: Operators fumble for reaction to threat of intervention on data roaming

Posted by Mark Newman

February 1st, 2008

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 […]

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Mark Newman has been tracking mobile markets for 18+ years, with particular focus on operator strategy, M&A, finance, regulation and licensing.