Intelligence Centre is a new online research tool from Informa Telecoms & Media. We are currently building the IC public site. In the meantime, I’m going to be picking some of our latest research for this blog, I hope you enjoy it. - Mark Newman

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Growing HSPA impact helps drive data acceleration across Europe

Posted by Mark Newman

December 3rd, 2007

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 […]

Posted in Broadband & Internet, Mobile Europe

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Mobile Broadband- An unexpected success story

Posted by Mark Newman

November 29th, 2007

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 […]

Posted in Broadband & Internet, Mobile Europe

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Mobile Industry Outlook Powerpoint slides

Posted by Mark Newman

November 27th, 2007

Many thanks to those of you attended our Mobile Industry Outlook 2008 event this morning. As expected, we had a superb turnout of 250+ delegates. Feedback from the attendees I spoke to was uniformly positive – thanks for your support.

I’m going to catch my breath before addressing some of the issues raised following the discussions […]

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Welcome!

Posted by Mark Newman

November 26th, 2007

Welcome to the Intelligence Centre blog.
As we wait for our web experts to put the finishing touches to the marketing site for our new Intelligence Centre service, I’m going to use this space to post some of our latest research over the coming weeks.
In addition to launching the new site, we’re also hosting our annual […]

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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.