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Articles tagged with: Pyramid Research
GSM Association Collaborates with Microsoft
The GSM Association (GSMA) says that it is to collaborating with Microsoft on a global research programme to determine consumer user trends and the mass market potential of notebook PCs with embedded mobile broadband - enabling access to the Internet anywhere with mobile coverage. more
Related Tags: w-cdma, gsm-association, dtac, teliasonera, hspa, cingular, gsma, notebook
Oi to sell unblocked GSM handsets
Brazilian mobile operator Oi plans to start selling unblocked GSM handsets this week, the company said in a statement. more
Related Tags: sim-card, tim, tim-brasil, oi, claro
Telefonica acquisition of TI likely to face regulatory opposition
Spain's Telefónica is likely to face regulatory opposition in Brazil after having secured control of Europe's fourth largest telecoms operator Telecom Italia on Saturday (Apr 28), Brazilian newspapers reported. more
Related Tags: capex, telecom-italia, portugal-telecom, tim, idc, antitrust
Report: Telefonica reaches agreement with PT to control Vivo
Spain's Telefónica has reached an agreement with Portugal Telecom to take full control of their joint venture, Brazil's largest mobile operator Vivo, Spanish daily El Confidencial reported, citing sources close to the negotiations. more
Related Tags: portugal-telecom, sonaecom
Off the Shelf Mobile Content for MVNO Providers
The MVNO services provider, Telcordia has signed an agreement with the mobile content supplier, mPortal to package their mobile content with its MVNO package. more
Sale of TI stake to AMX, TEF could face regulatory obstacles"
Brazil's telecom regulator Anatel has warned that América Móvil could face local regulatory obstacles if its pursues its plans to buy an indirect stake in Telecom Italia, the owner of Brazil's second largest mobile operator TIM, newspaper Valor Econômico reported. more
Related Tags: at&t, portugal-telecom, tim, antitrust, claro
FMC Subscribers to Reach 18m in 2011
UMA and dual-mode subscribers will quadruple in number in 2007, from fewer than 400,000 in 2006, and reach 18m in 2011, forecasts Pyramid Research in its latest report. The report found that as expected, total FMC revenue generated in the pioneer markets will remain minute. Pyramid Research forecasts global revenue from FMC will grow from about US$130m in 2006 to nearly US$9bn in 2011. more
Argentina, Colombia excluded from Nokia Siemens Network launch on Apr 1"
Regulatory obstacles mean that Argentina and Colombia will be left out of the global launch of operations on April 1 of Nokia Siemens Networks, the new joint venture between Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia and German equipment supplier Siemens, the companies said in a joint statement. more
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The Future of the Mobile Music Industry is Subscriptions
The most significant shift in the mobile music market will come in the form of bundled music, or as it is more commonly known, subscriptions, says a new report from Pyramid Research. The report argues that the devaluation of ownership means that models offering access to vast digital libraries on a rental basis are in many ways more compelling than just having access to content that is purchased. The downside of this argument is that the library is only accessible while a subscription is current, but for many people this is a small price to pay for the opportunity of nearly infinite content discovery. more
Related Tags: mobile-music
Analysts: Pace of consolidation likely to slow down
The pace of consolidation in Brazil's telecoms sector is likely to slow down, as players take stock after a series of false starts in 2006, telecoms analysts told BNamericas. more
Related Tags: citigroup, portugal-telecom, telecom-italia, tim, orascom-telecom, tim-brasil, brasil-telecom, pension