3GSM World Congress
18th – 21th February 2003, Cannes. GSM World Congress 2003 – Summary Every year when I return from an exciting week in Cannes, I sit down and look back at the…
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New announcements from Symbian will put Symbian inside 40% of mobile phones in 2004
Carl Williams, Strand Consult Tuesday 18th FebruaryGSM World Congress 2003, Cannes On the first day of the actual GSM World Congress exhibition, visitors flocked around the fully working 3G colour…
Open Standards high on the agenda on the GMS World Congress opening day
Carl Williams, Strand Consult Monday 17th FebruaryGSM World Congress 2003, Cannes Today the 18th GSM World Congress opened in Cannes, where over 28000 delegates from the whole mobile world will…
Nokia N-Gage Launch – Strand Consult viewpoint
Today Nokia is launching their new games platform N-Gage – and the questions on everybodys lips are whether this new platform will play a major role in the mobile evolution…
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 – Following in the tracks of WAP?
In 1869 the construction of the first transcontinental railroad was completed when the railroad from the East met with the railroad from the West at Promontory Summit – linking the…
3G – The need for speed
As GPRS slowly starts to find a foothold in the minds of mobile consumers, one question seems to pop up again and again; Why bother with 3G at all –…
Strand Consult: 2002 will bring many changes to the UK market for mobile services
OperatorsMarket will be divided between 4 operators of almost equal size – the battle for customers will be intensified, especially the battle for the most lucrative customersOperators will further shift…
Strand Consult: Predictions for the European Mobile Market in 2003
Consumer Behaviour2003 will be the year where we really start to notice how consumers will be divided between a voice based market and a data based market. The consumers on…
The story behind the Huawei story – it’s not a politically-orchestrated car accident in slow motion
The media’s coverage of the Huawei story looks like a politically-orchestrated car accident in slow motion. The media bills the story as a front in a US-China trade war, but…
4 to 3 mobile mergers can be derailed by operators telling a story too good to be true and regulators with a religious approach to consolidation
Strand Consult has analyzed consolidation in the mobile industry beginning in year 2000. Our first report appeared in 2002 describing the process in South Korea going from 5 to 3…
Strand Consult: Predictions for the Mobile Market in 2005
The year 2004 will be remembered as the year where the “first” 3G operators launched their offerings and the migration from 2G to 3G really started to take off. Many…
