ESPOO, Finland - In the past year, I've been watching how netbooks, small hardcover book-sized computers, have been slowly gaining traction. These highly mobile net-connected devices are encroaching on the smartphone space. Indeed, with mobile network operators such as Vodafone offering netbooks with 3G dongles, the line between mobile computing and mobile phones is rapidly blurring. Furthermore, ...

Mobile network operators could rake in $52 billion in mobile content revenues by 2013, up from $23 billion this year, but only if they modify their mobile content business models to avoid becoming ‘dumb pipes,’ according to a new report from Juniper...

It is being reported that as many as 25 million mobile phones could be cut off in India from next month - following a security clamp down on unregistered mobile phones following ongoing terrorist attacks in the country. The department of telecom (DoT) has instructed the mobile network operators to disconnect all handsets which do not have an IMEI number from January 6th 2009.

Customer churn remains one of the biggest challenges for most mobile network operators. And nowhere more so than in Western Europe where intense competition, deregulation, ease of number transfer and more than 100% market penetration have led to an annual overall churn rate as high as 24%. But for one operator things are not so bleak. ...

Wireless network optimisation firm, Arieso says that it has been chosen by one of the three largest mobile network operators in the USA (unnamed, but GSM based and hence has to be ATandT) to provide a country-wide Automatic Cell Planning (ACP) solution.

Qualcomm has issued an aggressive timeline for releasing engineering samples of its LTE/HSPA+ device modem. It is trying for the second quarter of 2009. The company, however, cautioned commercial availability of of the MDM9000 "still depends on a number of very uncertain factors, many of which are dependent on mobile network operators' plans and investment priorities about how and w...

The mobile network operators have been quietly enhancing their cellular voice plans to make using their wireless networks for intra-company calls more economically appealing. For a couple of years, the big U.S. operators have offered calling plans that integrate, to a degree, your cellular phone with your PBX feature set and on-net campus calling price plan. Now, those options are becoming more nu...

Mobile network operators accept the principle of customer centric marketing, but marketing tool-kit restricts implementation 4th December 2008: Customer-centric marketing is increasingly perceived as the Holy Grail for mobile telecoms operators in the 21st century. But generic customer relationship management (CRM) systems, fragmented data and poor campaign monitoring and reporting systems are und...

A study from Juniper Research suggests that Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) will need to change their mobile content business models by emphasizing 'shared value creation' in order to avoid becoming 'dumb pipes' in the future. Only if they can transform their businesses into 'smart pipe' service providers, can they significantly increase their income from mobile content - estimated at $23bn in 200...

Mobile network operators in developed regions should prepare for a tenfold increase in wireless network traffic by 2015, as data traffic rapidly overtakes voice, according to the latest report entitled Wireless network traffic 2008-2015: forecasts and analysis from Analysys Mason. Total wireless network traffic from cellular users in developed regions is set to increase substantially, driven by: i...