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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, t-mobile, sim, social-networking, eu, 3-uk, vodafone, mvno, tim, wind, lte, outsourcing, ovi, iden, telefonica, 3, movistar, play, UK

High Growth Forecasted for Western European Mobile Communications

A new European market report from Reportlinker notes that the sector has undergone enormous changes in response to regulatory pressure on roaming and interconnection tariffs, competition from numerous new start-up MVNOs, and pressure on voice tariffs and bundled SMS offers which have lowered voice and data ARPU. The company says that revenue growth in coming years will primary depend on the continued increase in subscriber numbers and the use of multiple SIMs, and by the further adoption of rich-media services including music downloads and mobile TV.  more

Related Tags: mobile-tv, mobile-data, teliasonera, mvno, rcom, eu, roaming, arpu, teliasonera-finland, umts, UK