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Mobile operators are resiliently beating the recession

According to the findings of a new report from ovum, mobile operators are comfortably and steadily beating the recession. Overall, operators maintained revenue and customer growth during the period, but the rate of growth is down. While most operators in emerging markets are yet to see any significant pressures on their performance, operators in countries such as the US and across Europe, where the recession has had dramatic impact, operators' revenues are holding out.  more

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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

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The case for network sharing gets stronger

Opinion piece by Emeka Obiodu, senior analyst at ovum

With a mature market, declining voice revenues and now the economic downturn, the argument for European mobile network operators (MNOs) to share their networks has never been stronger. Although there have been several network-sharing initiatives, what is needed is a more coherent commercial and regulatory framework across the EU to make network sharing the norm rather than the exception.  more

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