Articles tagged with: Ev Do and Arpu

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, ovi, tim, ict, sim, mobile-broadband, laptop, modem, security, usb

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

Related Tags: , sim, eu, ict, tim, mts, hspa, ovi, iden, mobile-broadband, femtocell, 3, fmc, femtocells, indoor, churn

South Korean W-CDMA base exceeds EV-DO in fourth quarter

All three South Korean operators have now reported their Q4 08 results. The South Korean market is one of the most stable in the world, and it was thus no surprise that market shares remained unchanged both quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year, with SK Telecom (SKT) on 50.5%, KT Freetel (KTF) on 31.5% and LG Telecom (LGT) on 18.0%. In fact, barring a minor blip in June, there was no change in market shares on a monthly basis either throughout 2008. more

Related Tags: 3g, cdma, lg, cdma2000-1x, sk-telecom, ktf, cdma2000, kt, kt-freetel, lg-telecom, Korea

Israel's Pelephone 3G base Surpasses 1 Million Mark

Pelephone is the third largest of Israel's four networks, but it was the fastest growing in Q3 08, both in real terms and proportionately. It added 62k customers in the quarter compared to 40k for market leader Cellcom and 36k for second-placed Partner, and its proportionate quarterly growth rate stood at 2.4% compared to 1.3% for both its rivals. At the end of the quarter its active customer base was just short of 2.70m. Nearest rival Partner had 2.88m, which means that its lead over Pelephone was below 200k for the first time in three years. more

Related Tags: w-cdma, cdma, cdma2000-1x, cdma2000, cellcom, pelephone, Israel

Asia-Pacific Continues to be the Strongest Region for CDMA

The CDMA Development Group (CDG) today announced that the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region once again leads the global CDMA ecosystem in terms of subscribers, revenue and service creation. As APAC operators continue to develop and enhance their core 3G CDMA networks, CDMA2000 subscribership in the region remains the largest in the world and operators in the region are seeing some of the highest wireless data revenues in the industry. more

CDMA2000 Finds Opportunities in Europe, Russia and Emerging Markets in the 450 MHz Band

The CDMA Development Group (CDG) says that CDMA450 is rapidly expanding across all regions, and that 126 operators in 65 countries have deployed or are planning to deploy CDMA450 services; 105 operators in 58 countries are already offering commercial services to more than 15 million people, and 21 operators are trialing or deploying CDMA450 in 8 more countries. more

LG Telecom's CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Rev. A Data Service, Thrives in Korea

The CDMA Development Group (CDG) has commented that LG Telecom's new CDMA2000 1x ev-do Rev. A data service is flourishing in the highly-competitive Korean wireless services market, adding about 100,000 new data subscribers per month to its 3G data service, "OZ" ("Open Zone"). The service has already resulted in a 14% increase in data average revenue per user (ARPU) from the previous quarter and a total of 287,000 OZ subscribers at the end of July. more

Related Tags: lg, cdma-development-group, cdma2000, lg-telecom, globe, Korea

Pelephone - Strong annual growth but still in third place

As we predicted in Issue 93 of The Mobile World Briefing, Pelephone remained the third largest operator in the Israeli market at the end of Q3 2007. With 2.56m customers at the end of September, Pelephone was 236k short of nearest rival Partner's total customer base and 457k short of market leader Cellcom. This represents a marginal improvement on the deficits recorded at the end of September 2006, which were 260k and 462k respectively. Net additions in the quarter stood at 47k, up slightly on the Q3 06 figure of 43k, although on a proportionate basis, growth was almost exactly the same with a 1.9% quarterly increase in the total customer base in both quarters. more

Related Tags: w-cdma, cellcom, pelephone, Israel

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