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Articles tagged with: Arpu and Ovi
Green Packet Wins Taiwanese WiMAX Software Contract
Malaysia's Green Packet says that it has sealed an agreement with Taiwan-based Tatung Infocomm to enhance the connectivity capabilities of Tatung's WiMAX network. The agreement will see Green Packet providing Tatung with a customised edition of its Intouch Connection Management Platform. This provision will greatly improve Tatung InfoComm's ability to offer seamless mobility across networks over secured mobile VPN, for example a user moving from Tatung WiMAX to Wi-Fi and back to a WiMAX coverage area. more
Related Tags: green-packet, tatung, wimax, wi-fi, vas, chipsets, Taiwan
Cost of Supporting Mobile Broadband is Eroding Subscriber Profitability
Mobile broadband services are more expensive to support than any other wireless service and are endangering subscriber profitability for many mobile network operators concludes a new study from WDSGlobal. The study found that the cost to support mobile broadband products and services is up to 200% greater than the cost to support traditional wireless products such as mobile phones. This means that despite revenue uplift from increased data usage, actual subscriber profitability often remains unchanged and sometimes even worsens. more
Related Tags: wdsglobal, 3g, usb-modem, customer-care, hspa, tim, ict, sim, mobile-broadband, laptop, modem, ev-do, security
Telecom Italia Mobile Lost 1.5 Million Customers in 2008
The Italian market lost a total of 135k customers over the year, with net losses in Q2 and Q4 trumping the smaller net gains in the other two periods. The year closed with a total base of 88.58m, compared to 88.72m, while penetration dropped from 152.6% to 152.4%. more
Related Tags: telecom-italia-mobile, tim, wind, vodafone, h3g, eu, 3g, , Italy
Fitch Downgrades Deutsche Telekom on Guidance Revision, Weak Operating Results
Fitch Ratings has downgraded Deutsche Telekom's (DT) Long-term Issuer Default rating (IDR) to 'BBB+' from 'A-' (A minus) and assigned a Stable Outlook. This follows DT's downward guidance revision for 2009 as operating pressures continue apace in key markets. more
Related Tags: fitch-ratings, deutsche-telekom, eu, sim, 3g, , tim, sharp, fitch
Deutsche Telekom Issues Profits Warning - May Write Down T-Mobile Value
Deutsche Telekom has issued a profits warning, and now expects adjusted EBITDA in 2009 to be 2 to 4 percent below last year. The company is now expecting to post EBITDA in the range of EUR18.7 billion - EUR19.1 billionn (US$24.7 billionn) after an initial forecast of EUR19.5 billion. more
Related Tags: deutsche-telekom, t-mobile, ptc, 3g, pops, , prepay, eu, roaming, t-mobile-usa, ict, itu, tim, lte, t-mobile-uk, sharp, ote, telekom, Germany
Study Finds Large Cost Savings for Migrating Heavy Data Users to Femtocells
Signals Research Group has completed a whitepaper on the business case for femtocells as part of its ongoing femtocell business modeling initiative with the trade group, the Femto Forum. The study found, across a wide variety of scenarios considering different regions of the world, the business case for femtocells is strong---often doubling the customer lifetime value---and does not depend on any one critical factor or assumption in order to generate a favorable outcome. Further to this, the research demonstrated that femtocells can dramatically reduce the growing financial costs made by heavy mobile broadband data users on the mobile network. more
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Top 22 Operators Account for 50% of Total WiMAX Subscribers
The top 22 WiMAX operators worldwide will contribute nearly 2.5 million subscribers by the end of 2009 - up from 1.24 million today - and close to 4 million by the end of 2010 according to the latest research report from Maravedis. more
Related Tags: wimax, ict, itu, clearwire, tim, lte, maravedis, iden, mobile-broadband, far-eastone, compete, dongles, microwave, bsnl, uq-communications, femtocells, partner, bandwidth
Canada Sees Lowest 4th-Quarter Gain Since 1997
Despite the fact that the Canadian mobile market is probably the least developed in the Western world, with a penetration rate of just 63.9% at the end of 2008, it performed poorly in the fourth quarter of the year. Quarterly net additions stood at just under 410k, down from 580k in Q4 07. In fact, this was the smallest fourth-quarter gain since 1997. More worryingly still, this was the first year since 1990 that fourth-quarter net additions were not the highest of the year: the Q3 08 increase was more than 27% higher than the Q4 08 figure at 520k. more
Related Tags: itu, mts, telus, orascom, bell, Canada
Mobile Banking is Emerging as a New Revenue Stream for Mobile Operators
Mobile banking is a budding service in Latin America and is expected to catch on in countries such as Chile, Brazil, and Argentina, where the economic and political condition is relatively stable. Success in the mobile banking market will help mobile operators shore up their average revenue per user (arpu) even when the mobile voice traffic slows down. more
Related Tags: sim, sms, mobile-data, itu, personal, mobile-banking, wap, Chile
Mobile broadband to be worth $137 billion by 2014
Users of mobile broadband services (3G and 3G+ technologies) will grow from 181 million in 2008 to over 2 billion in 2014, growth of 1024%, according to Ovum's latest research. more
Related Tags: asia-pacific, 3g, sim, eu, driving, lte, ovum, iden, usb-modem, vas, mobile-broadband, opex, laptop