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Vodafone Sees Loss of UK Market Share and Lower ARPUs

The UK added over 3m new mobile connections during 2008, to take the total base to 75.75m, equivalent to 124% penetration. The market is one of the most competitive in europe, if not the world, with five established MNOs and several MVNOs, of which the most successful are Virgin and the increasingly ambitious Tesco. more

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Electricity Meters to Transmit Usage Data over T-Mobile Network

Echelon Corp. and T-Mobile USA have announced an alliance to accelerate the adoption of the smart grid in the North American market by reducing the communications cost of smart meters through the deployment of Echelon's Networked Energy Services (NES) system over T-Mobile's GSM network. As part of the agreement, Echelon will utilize an embedded T-Mobile SIM within a cellular radio module to enable all the Echelon smart meters on a given low voltage transformer to communicate back to the utility over the smart grid, and T-Mobile will offer users of Echelon's NES system and pricing plans for data usage. more

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

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There is a Role for Challengers in the European Mobile Communications Market

The global economic downturn has taken its toll on industries across the globe, and the mobile and wireless communications industry is no exception. In the european market, which is highly saturated and competitive, mobile network operators (MNOs) are in a survival of the fittest battle to maintain and expand their market share. On the fringes of this battle are new entrants, challenging established MNOs to stay in the game. more

Related Tags: orange, sim, social-networking, 3-uk, vodafone, mvno, o2, tim, wind, lte, outsourcing, ovi, iden, telefonica, yoigo, 3, movistar, play, UK

Active RAN Sharing Could Save Operators $60 Billion

A new study from ABI Research finds that the worldwide combined OPEX and CAPEX savings from active infrastructure sharing could amount to as much as $60 billion over the next five year period. The study finds that operators could enjoy at least 40% cost savings in addition to those available from passive site sharing. more

Related Tags: 3g, base-station, rural, vodafone, o2, lte, abi-research, capex, telenor, 3, backhaul, tele2, infrastructure-sharing, opex, tower

Future sharing opportunities for Mobile Network Operators

Opinion by Steven Hartley, senior analyst at Ovum

The notion of one network is not entirely far-fetched. After the savings of passive sharing have been realised, where can future savngs come from? In our forthcoming report 2020 vision for mobilewe predict that operators will seek increasingly active forms of sharing. Sharing ever more of your infrastructure might sound ridiculous today, but all forms of sharing sounded ridiculous ten years ago. more

Related Tags: sim, ict, mvno, o2, driving, tim, wind, lte, ericsson, ovum, one-network, backhaul, spice

US Operators Sign-Up to Mobile Marketing Agreement

..his agreement from the major aggregators, brands and content owners. In specific, VeriSign, Neustar, Limbo, and Thumbplay, all played critical roles in the process. Under the agreement, the four companies, all MMA members, will incorporate t more

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Vodafone Found to Offer UK's Lowest Roaming Data Download Charges

A study carried out by price comparison website, Broadband-Expert, has revealed massive discrepancies between the UK's top 5 mobile broadband providers for data usage abroad. Orange was the most expensive, charging Ł3.94 per Mb inside the eu and Ł6.32 per Mb outside the eu. Vodafone were found to be the cheapest provider, charging Ł9.99 for a day's use of up to at 50Mb inside the eu (which equates to 20p per Mb). more

Related Tags: orange, vodafone, o2, ovi, mobile-broadband, UK

Shareholders Pushing for Sale of US Cellular to Larger Rival

.. predicted that it could well be surpassed by MetroPCS during 2009. A Reuters news report, citing people close to the matter said that Southeastern, which controls about a 15 percent stake in TDS, wants the company to put itself up for sale, sayi more

UK Operators Drop Processing Fees for Charity Premium Text Messages

..se Climb. Both donation lines close at midnight on 31 March 2009. Emma Freud, Trustee of Comic Relief, said: "The spirit of the entire mobile industry has taken our breath away. We believe receiving every penny from texts donated by the p more

Related Tags: orange, mms, sms, vodafone, o2, premium-sms, charity, vat, UK