Articles tagged with: Arthur D. Little and Itu

Mobile Payments Surging Ahead with Opportunities in Emerging Markets

In the last five years, markets with mobile payment offers have matured with a variety of players entering the industry value chain and new services being launched. Initially, there was a race to enter the market and a strong rivalry between different technological propositions that would facilitate mobile transaction channels. Today, we observe that, in many national markets, only one or two dominant mobile payment platforms (e.g. the paybox platform in Austria) have prevailed, and key issues now being addressed include cross border interoperability and standardization.  more

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Mobile Internet Usage is Driving a New Wave of Mobile Banking Services

A new report from Arthur D. Little has identified investment in mobile banking as a promising revenue growing opportunity for the global financial services industry. Moving well beyond simple text-based balance updates, Mobile Banking 2.0 will capitalize on customers' increasing mobile internet use to carry out complex transactions and introduce novel ways to reach customers through the mobile medium.  more

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European telecoms operators in strong position to ride out recession

European telecoms operators in strong position to ride out recession according to Arthur D. Little - Exane BNP Paribas joint study "reviving the fixed line" predicts increase in incumbents' valuations of up to 27% over the period 2008-15  more

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Telecom Suppliers: The Pressure is on

A recent study by global management consultancy Arthur D. Little has found that traditional telecoms suppliers are facing an overall critical situation as the recession deepens in 2009. The increasing strength of the Asian market was identified as the primary threat that telecom suppliers face, due to its expanded reputation, innovation and consistent delivery of quality. For example, the Chinese telecoms provider Huawei has already achieved more than 10% of the global market share for investments of fixed and mobile network infrastructure, while the expansion rate for investments in fixed and mobile networks in industrialized countries is stagnating.  more

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