The Last Hurrah of the Handset Subsidy
By the time most mobile subscribers are eligible for a device upgrade; their smartphone can already be two generations old. It’s little wonder then that device satisfaction starts to fall after just...
View ArticleM&A – The Local Way
Group operators are still looking to global acquisitions as they attempt to address concerns over growth and stalling margins. This has ensured a salvo of recent M&A activity, which has seen...
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Survey Reveals the Future for Traditional Billing and IN Charging
Corine Suscens, senior marketing manager at Openet As data becomes the main focus for many mobile operators, there is an on-going debate about the future of traditional batch based billing for...
View ArticleOvum view: Investors to gain more than Vodafone from Verizon sale
On September 2, 2013, Vodafone and Verizon announced that they had reached an agreement for Vodafone to sell its 45 per cent stake in Verizon Wireless back to Verizon for $130bn. Ovum believes that the...
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Operators can monetise OTT through cloud hosting strategies
Gordon Rawling, director of EMEA marketing, Oracle Communications Voracious consumer appetite for Over the Top (OTT) technologies has bred an exceptionally chaotic telecommunications environment, and...
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The mobility opportunity for fixed telephony and TV operators
Stefan Zehle, Coleago CEO The availability of increasingly sophisticated softphone applications and TV anywhere applications coupled with the widespread adoption of smart devices, provides fixed...
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Innovation Shouldn’t Be a Rocky Ride
Eli Itin, Amdocs Innovation Evangelist Apparently there are people who enjoy going for leisurely bike rides. They say they like the feel of the wind and taking in the scenery. That’s not how I ride a...
View ArticleUncertainty and risk: the results of spectrum renewal by auction
In many mobile markets the original 900MHz and 1800MHz GSM licences are currently up for renewal, shortly to be joined by some of the 3G licences issued at the turn of the new millennium. In some...
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RCS – Simplify, select, succeed
Keith Mumford, VP Technology, Kineto Wireless Informa’s Rich Communication 2013 conference, held in Berlin at the end of October, demonstrated that mobile operators are embracing key aspects of RCS to...
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Connected Car: mobile operators must innovate to ensure OEMs profit
Connected car is a huge potential market, but with OEMs demanding a slice of the pie, MNOs must innovate around business models to ensure they work for all parties to drive the industry forward The...
View ArticleIs time is running out for the Combinatorial Clock Auction format?
Earlier this month, I attended the Spectrum Management Forum 2012 in Munich and was interested to hear several presenters criticise the Combinatorial Clock Auction (CCA) format. The CCA format which...
View ArticleThe smartphone confessions of a 13-year-old boy
This guest article is written by 13-year-old Jack Bicheno, who is spending a work placement day at Telecoms.com and was tasked with writing a story. A subject people don’t really tend to talk about is...
View ArticleVodafoneZiggo tells operators to virtualize fast
The approach of 5G brings with it the promise of a whole range of exciting new use cases. But before we strap on our VR headsets, the operators need to create networks that live up to the promises....
View ArticleGSMA advises operators to keep it simple on network slicing
On the final day of 5G World 2018, GSMA Technical Director Michele Zarri gave operators some advice on deploying network slicing on 5G: “keep it simple”. Zarri advised operators to work together with...
View ArticleWill the UK ever agree on the internet?
This week Telecoms.com has 16 year-old Shannon O’Connor joining the team for work experience, and today’s ‘thrilling’ task is to join Jamie at the Connected Britain event in London. Here are her...
View ArticleInstagram unveils new feature, but is it worth your time?
This week Telecoms.com has 16 year-old Shannon O’Connor joining the team for work experience, and today is an assessment of Instagram’s new feature to moderate time spent on the app. Here are her...
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Facebook turns to interactive video to re-engage community
This week Telecoms.com has 16 year-old Shannon O’Connor joining the team for work experience, and today she looks at Facebook’s new interactive video features in the quest to be relevant once again....
View ArticleWill you grow an extra ear from too much Snapchatting?
This week Telecoms.com has 16 year-old Shannon O’Connor joining the team for work experience, and today she looks at the potential for damage of radio frequency radiation on society. Here are her...
View ArticleHow e-Sim will disrupt operators, manufacturers and MVNOs
Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece, Tech Journalist Kate O’Flaherty explores the opportunities and...
View ArticleExploring the benefits of digitalisation
Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece freelance Technology Journalist Kate O’Flaherty looks at how digital...
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