The Case for European MVNOs: Cheaper for National Calls Than Host Operator
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The provision of "low-budget" or "no-frills" services is a trend that started off in the middle of the previous decade gradually expanding over a number of sectors in human economies. No-frills airline easyJet pioneered the European "low-budget" airline market in 1995, when it launched its services as a "low-cost" air carrier that...
Cable's Wireless Strategy Moves to Next Phase
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The joint venture (JV) partnering Sprint Nextel with four of the cable industry's top multiple system operators (MSOs) is expected to not only produce a hard asset in the form of a jointly developed wireless device, but even more significantly supply the fourth piece to cable's quadruple play: wireless. Cable's addition of a wireless...
The Babel of Business: Do we Over-Communicate?
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How much communication is too much? Everyone complains about information overload. Yet businesses are having to shout even louder to get their messages heard above the noise. Frances Cairncross, author of The Death of Distance, points out that a message that might once have reached an entire nation through one well-placed television...
Ericsson, Telenor Partner for IMS Services
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Ericsson has announced a partnership with Norway's largest telecoms group, Telenor, to test convergent and seamless IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) services. In a press release, Ericsson stated that it was set to run tests on its IMS solution for convergent services with Telenor research and development (R&D) in 2006. The tests will...
Siemens Plans to Split Telecoms Unit
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German vendor Siemens plans to break up its loss-making telecoms division Com, according to German business publication manager-magazin. The move would involve either selling parts of the division or creating joint ventures. Significance: In the last quarter of 2005, Com made an operating loss of 43 million euro (US$51 million),...
Motorola, T-Mobile International Ink Deal
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Motorola and T-Mobile International announced a first in the two companies' relationship with a global strategic program for the marketing and development of products and services. The companies say that under their agreement, signed at 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, both companies will develop and deliver a product portfolio...
U.S. Mobile Workforce Composition To Stay Static Through 2008
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The composition of the U.S. mobile workforce is expected to remain basically unchanged during the next three years, according to a new study issued by TelecomWeb news break's sister unit InfoTech's InfoTrack for Enterprise Mobility (IEM) in its Mobile Communications in the U.S. Workplace. In its most recent "Mobility Market Monitor"...
Profiles of Age 18-29 Mobile Voice Users
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AbstractWireless carriers, handset vendors and application developers have built large businesses around several assumptions: -- Voice revenues will steadily deteriorate as voice becomes a commodity among wireless carriers -- Mobile applications such as music, video, and picture messaging will shore up those sagging...
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