Where are the GPRS revenue models?
Many European mobile operators have been offering GPRS throughout most of 2002, some even earlier. GPRS is the key to a successful 2.5G and 3G rollout, because mobile users will…
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Premium SMS revenue will drop from 74% – to 7%!
A historical era in the mobile evolution will be over. For a number of years, SMS has been the only available type of mobile service that service providers and the…
Mobile Games and Entertainment is Serious Business
School children will sit in their break and do it, businessmen and women will sit in an airport lounge and do it. People waiting for the bus, in a train,…
MMS can celebrate its 1.5 year birthday – but the party is in South Korea!
In Europe a new mobile baby has been born, the name of the child has been chosen and there are great expectations and hopes for the future of this new…
Virtual Machine Games In South Korea Has An Advantage Which Is Not Taken Advantage Of
– Both Operators And Content Providers Lose And No One Wins the Wons. In South Korea there is a big focus on electronic games of all different kinds and the…
Analysis: How do you market new 3G mobile services – a look at Hutchison 3G
– with a snazzy demo that leaves consumers in the dark. Hutchison 3G or simply “3” as they now would like to be called, have justannounced “details” of their upcoming…
Mobile Applications in South Korea open up for much more flexible pricing schemes and flexible pricing schemes open up for more revenue
In South Korea Mobile Applications have made a big impact on what types of pricing models the mobile operators can offer mobile users – and the new price models have…
A glimpse of the near future can actually be seen by looking at the palm of a South Koreans hand
– but the price of a prediction is just too high. Before now, very few people could tell a story by looking at the palm of another person’s hand. Today,…
New report concludes: Most European mobile operators are acting as if the typewriter was back in fashion
Can you imagine IBM going back to producing typewriters and DOS based software? Can you imagine a technology company ignoring the technological development? Difficult, is it not? However, this is…
GPRS has so far been a bigger flop than WAP – but nobody knows!
WAP was oversold. Nobody disagrees with that. And of course, nobody in their right mind would like to make the same mistake twice, and expect to keep their job the…
The European mobile operators will not manage content deals themselves
lessons learnt in Korea Imagine how much content and services will be needed if the mobile operators want to raise mobile data traffic revenue from the 12% it is at…
Pricing of mobile content
lower prices in Korea has kick-started mobile services market In Europe, the mobile users have been paying for mobile services from day one, there has never been any free mobile…
