The launch of the latest Nokia Lumia smartphones could revive Nokia’s presence across Asia and China in particular, but will they come quickly enough? Both the Lumia 710 and 800 Windows phones are scheduled to be available in Hong Kong, … View post >
The French telecoms regulator announced at the end of last week that they have finished the 2.6GHz auction process begun in June. FDD Allocation (MHz total) Price (m€) €/MHz/POP Obligatory MVNO access Orance 40 287 0.110 Y SFR 30 150 … View post >
Interest in the industry regarding NFC and mobile payments is continuing to grow following the joint venture by Orange, Vodafone, O2 and T-Mobile, with the Google Wallet emerging as the latest major breakthrough. It will aide NFC to continue to … View post >
The troubles of T-Mobile go back many years and are related to inferior spectrum holdings: “We were late with 3G”, said Neville Ray, SVP, engineering and operations T-Mobile USA, in March 2009. Since then T-Mobile acquired spectrum in several auctions … View post >
Making money out of mobile payments was one of the drivers that drove the share prices of telecoms companies to stratospheric levels during the Dot Com boom. Ten years on and still no real progress has been made in relation … View post >
Today’s announcement that Google is to buy Motorola Mobility is an interesting development in the Smartphone operating system fight for market share. Earlier this year we had the announcement of the alliance between Nokia and Microsoft. Will the next step … View post >
According to a recent report from Telecompaper.com, MVNO subscribers represent almost one third of the Netherlands’ mobile market. This is clear proof that multi-branding and mobile wholesale are a good antidote to a saturated competitive market. By comparison, we estimate … View post >
The French telecoms regulator ARCEP announced the terms of the country’s 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz spectrum auction process in June. There are several noticeable features of the process: firstly the bands are being sold off sequentially with the 2.6GHz … View post >
Graham Friend, MD Coleago Consulting’s warning about high reserve prices for spectrum auctions “Rising reserve prices in mobile spectrum auctions are a cause for concern for all, June 28, 2011” was timely indeed. Greece has pushed reserve prices for spectrum … View post >
With most mobile markets (including many in developing markets) becoming heavily saturated the mobile business is becoming increasingly a market share game. It is well understood that with high fixed costs, Mobile Network Operator (MNO) businesses demonstrate increasing returns to … View post >