All Posts Tagged With: "Operators"
A thought I’ve pondered over a lot. If I had my way I would change a lot (not only in Mobile), but in the rest of the world. But let’s forget about that; let’s think purely Mobile, purely communications, and sales. What would you change?
What has to annoy me the most with mobiles, especially here [...]
We’re sending Ed Hodges to meet Cynthia Gordon, the Chief Marketing Officer of Mobile TeleSystems — otherwise known as MTS. Next week. London.
MTS are the 7th largest mobile operator with 89 million customers across Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Ed is our go-to-guy when we want a bit of analysis and perspective [...]
It certainly looks like Orange have begun extending their Orange Response customer services assistance to the internet with comments posted like these:
Hi there,
I work for Orange and have checked this for you, and you should not be paying VAT on your final figure.
If you want to drop me an email with your contact details [...]
We’ve a huge, huge piece on WiMax coming from Mr Operator. Suffice to say, he is not impressed.
Some highlights I plucked from his piece this morning:
“Over at Intel, someone else (possibly at the same long lunch) piped up and said “Great idea guys, here’s several Billion dollars, hop to it”. And lo, the WiMax [...]
Continue ReadingSo reckons Scott M. Fulton of BetaNews.
If Sprint’s early estimates are accurate and if they’re reflective of other carriers’ traffic on the day Sen. Barack Obama announced his running mate, the resulting flow of text message traffic on the nation’s networks could theoretically have generated more than $118 million in extra revenue for the nation’s [...]
Two of India’s biggest mobile service providers, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone have now officially announced the availability and pricing for the iPhone, ending over 2 months of rumors and speculations. The iPhone 3G goes on sale on August 22nd, 2008 throughout the country.
India, a country of over 350 million mobile subscribers has long waited [...]
Over in the US, there’s an interesting plan brewing. The Federal Communications Commission is planning to auction a piece of spectrum off under the proviso that the winner of the auction has to offer a free wireless internet service with part of the spectrum.
Operators, it seems, have been dragging their feet and causing delays, [...]
Guess what? The mobile industry is actually doing something right for once. Yep, according to watchdog Ofcom, the system of self regulation operators have in place to stop kids getting their hands on adult material before they’re 18 is working out fine, although it did administer a gentle slap on the wrist over information: apparently [...]
Continue ReadingSo reckons Edward T. Manzitti, vice president for research of the Direct Marketing Association, a trade group that recently released a study of mobile users responses to unsolicited offers (reports the New York Times).
Mr. Manzitti blames the fact that recipients often have to pay for text-message ads for much of the opposition to [...]
This doesn’t sound good. According to a number of reports, EC Commissioner Viviane Reding is planning to pare back mobile termination rates from 7p to around 1p. Funnily enough, mobile operators aren’t best pleased and have apparently told Reding that if she goes ahead with the cuts, they might be forced to charge customers to [...]
Continue ReadingI asked Oren Glaz, top chap at Olista to give me a perspective on how, in his experience, operators are reacting to off-portal data usage. With Consumer demand for dynamic mobile content continuing to grow (Source: IDC 2007) Oren takes a look at the current off-portal market trends and how operators can tap into [...]
Continue ReadingSharp has decided to take its mobiles to pastures new. According to reports, this one from the Financial Times among them, the electronics manufacturer is planning to start selling mobiles in China in time for the Olympics later this year.
The reports say that Sharp will bring in high-end devices to the Chinese market and the [...]
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