Strategies to lure the youth market to 3G are increasingly important to mobile operators as they plan their prepaid 3G launches. However, the youth market is fickle and harder ...

While most view competition by focussing on either the PTT or a handful of national operators, this does not factor in the threat from regional carriers. National operators must ...

Vodafone Germany has clandestinely launched its first "home zone' product ZuHause. The secret launch indicates that even Vodafone is aware of its failings when compared to Germany's first "home ...

Mobile TV is one of the biggest content gambles in which mobile operators are investing. Thus far, services have failed to satisfy, but new "mobisode' style programmes from Fox/Vodafone ...

The possible launch of i-mode in the UK is suffering from more than teething problems, as speculation and uncertainty surround discussions between NTT DoCoMo and mm02. Legal issues are testing ...

Not a single competitor is pushing cheap, entry level broadband, triple play services (voice, video and Internet), fast ADSL or SDSL backed by SLAs for businesses. Ireland cannot afford ...

French and Italian operators have started to deploy ADSL2, boasting DSL rates of up to 18 Mbps, with 25 Mbps just around the corner. There is a strong case for ...

DSL has advanced from a best-effort to a business-class service delivering faster speeds, CoS and stronger SLAs. The challenge is to bridge the gap between country-specific offerings to provide a ...

Media giants are sidestepping mobile operators to launch their own mobile portals, as the fight for the consumer heats up. Operators have faced competition like this before and have won, ...

Frustrated by the lack of loyalty in the consumer sector, operators have taken to locking users into increasingly longer contracts. But there's something short-sighted about a customer acquisition strategy without ...

Consolidation in the cable market provides an alternative to LLU and a credible challenge to DSL on price and speed. Yet, the moves are countered by a fierce regulatory challenge, ...

Sprint's headline-grabbing Wireless SLA launch in the US has pried the lid off the industry's best-kept secret. If European wireless operators have been offering SLAs on voice services for some ...

After a four year delay, LLU in the UK is gathering pace in response to BT's LLU price cuts. SDSL initially takes centre stage, but further off, ISPs are ...

The Norwegian telecom market is now really starting to see old and new players developing and promoting VoIP or VoB services. Over the next six months, Norwegian customers will ...

Vodafone's teeth gnash, the competition shudders and 3G data card prices and tariffs tumble astronomically in Germany and Spain. Land-grab aside, does anyone out there have a game plan to ...

Companies planning to migrate from circuit-switched digital to IP telephony have a somewhat confusing range of deployment options to consider. The race is on among suppliers of IP telephony solutions ...

The commercial launch of VoIP in Switzerland kicks the door wide open for competition in the national voice market and is picking up speed. The challenge for fixed operators will ...

French network operators should wine, dine, and promote "the right' MVNO candidates, selecting candidates who will complement their own marketing strategies. Not all MVNOs make for comfortable bed fellows. ...

18 months after the buzz began, operators are still trialing PoC solutions and vendors are still wrangling over PoC standards. A new study points to the importance of OMA-based systems; ...

P2P VoIP applications show potential to alter the German voice market in a way that parallels Napster's rise to fame - free software, free on-net calls and universal availability. Yet, ...