Telecom in general
AT&T T-Mobile deal crash: Let 2012 be a year we think Different, not just Big
So this AT&T and T-Mobile thing is off. It is not surprising. Just like the futile efforts to re-boot SAAB in my native Sweden, the writing was on the wall. Somehow the people involved became prisoners in their own reality distortion field. Both these deal crashes are signs of old school thinking. Let’s hope we’ll [...]
Do mobile phones kill?
I just came across another article here reminding me of the Big Question we get som many different and non-answers to. I can’t help drawing parallels to the financial crisis. People saw the dangers in what was going on but as long as there was no crash nobody dared to blow the whistle. Is it [...]
Do you know your operators?
The list of the 10 biggest mobile phone operators is out. It is based on the number of subscribers they have and markets they are active in. Yes, China Mobile is on top, but do you know the other nine? Click this link for the answer.
You talkin' to me?
Seems like there is some dialogue going on between the mobile industry and the climate change organisations after all. Contrary to my recent complaint. But I am very happy to be wrong on this point. With the risk of it being hot air I still hope initiatives like the Ericsson-UN talks will change things for [...]
Mobile has to show its green side!
I continue my short series of telecom and wireless in a larger perspective than just mobile entertainment and apps. It must be the effect of watching our garden explode with new life again that triggers this. In the environmetal debate the mobile industry is not very present. Despite the graduation from only offering token “green [...]
Why expensive handsets wont cut it – comment
Reading more from FierceWireless Europe on the handsets. I just have to comment. Will comment at FW site as well, when their comment function is back up again. Anyway, if a consumer has to make the choice between keeping up their mobile phone service usage and a new handset I would say in 10 cases [...]
Wrong way out?
According to both anecdotal evidence and more fact based industry sources it seems like many mobile operators put high hopes to smartphones as the way out of the recession. Why? How? My thinking is that mobile calls, sms and mobile internet is a “must have”. A new cool handset is still “nice to have” items. [...]
2009 what-ifs
I do not find it very useful to extrapolate trends into the new year and making more or less safe bets about what will happen. I am not saying they are bad. A few good ones are found at Mobhappy and MEF. For my own businesses though I find it much more useful to run [...]
Mobile web publishing for the masses
The last few days I have been playing around with a service that is new service called mobisitegalore.com. It lets you build mobile web pages from a computer. So far nothing with a wow-factor. But you can also build your mobile sote from any mobile with a wap browser. The latter is what intrigues me. [...]
Focus focus and focus
One key success factor for many companies. So be it for mobile network operators (MNO). They have a few things that no one else has or can get. The MNO control the transmission, billing and a lot of consumer data. These three things form a very strong base to build a service enabling offering around. [...]
