31 August 2010
Posted in News Anaylsis

Mobile Europe recently asked Ryan Garner, Research Manager of GfK NOP Technology, to undertake some research on our behalf. What, we wondered, would consumers make of data caps and limits if they were explained to them in terms of fairness?

24 August 2010
Posted in Press Wire

Telecom Italia, Italy’s main communications service provider, is undertaking a trial of LTE, in collaboration with Nokia Siemens Networks, in selected city areas of Turin, Italy.

23 August 2010
Posted in Blog

A continent's petty thieves wait with baited breath

The GSMA has announced it has shortlisted six cities to host Mobile World Congress from 2013. A crack team of investigators will spend months checking out the quality of the bars, restaurants and hotel facilities (and simulating 50,000 people trying to get a free WiFi connection at the same time) in Amsterdam, Paris, Cologne, Munich, Barcelona and Paris.

19 August 2010
Posted in News Anaylsis

Despite a twenty-fold increase in data traffic, and increased growth in voice minutes, overall mobile service revenues dropped in the UK between 2008 and 2009, according to Ofcom’s report into the UK telecommunications market.

19 August 2010
Posted in Blog

I wrote a newsletter piece earlier this week about Vodafone’s Mobile WiFi launch in the UK. The gist of my piece was that I was disappointed to see, once more, a big bucket of data being offered with little differentiation or opportunity for personalisation.

16 August 2010
Posted in News Anaylsis

Product to bring cable and mobile operators closer together

Mobile operators are being offered a new way of building out networks with the launch of a combined cell site/ WiFi access point from BelAir Networks.