The advent in coming years of mobile VoIP means that mobile operators may be caught between a “rock and a hard place”, but mobile VoIP may not all be bad news for the mobile operators that still dominate the cellular landscape.
And there are other forces at play in the mobile industry that mean that [...]
Mobile Content & Applications
If you are an operator looking to diversify the “revenue pool” as basic data and voice services become commoditised, areas like M2M and m Health are a good place to start. UK operator o2 is the latest operator to look at the potential of the health sector, and its moves to do so follow initiatives [...]
An interesting factoid came into my inbox yesterday evening, courtesy of the faithful electronic newsgatherers at Fierce Mobile Content (who had themselves garnered the aforementioned factoid from Mobclix): namely, that books now outnumber games on Apple’s App Store. This is partly attributable to the classification system on the Store in which apps that you know and I [...]
While industry associations and equipment vendors will often put forward figures on one aspect of telecommunications, such as service revenues, handset or equipment sales, it is less usual to get a picture of the whole industry puzzle fits together. Two recent studies, by the US Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and equipment vendor Cisco respectively, go [...]
The 24-operator announcement of the ‘Wholesale Applications Community’ to allow mobile Internet and applications to be downloaded without the potential headache of conflicting technologies, announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week, might allow operators access to 3 billion consumers as the initiative’s website claims, but it could also be a very difficult [...]
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