Equity funds buying telcos may be bad news for telco business customers fearing telco asset sell-offs. But for the cable TV operators equity investments are a new lease on life, ...

TRAI's VoIP initiative means lower communications costs for Indian enterprises but has opened a Pandora's box for carriers. In a potentially cluttered market with half-baked regulations, carriers need to ...

Investment in t-zones has ended. Web "n' walk is T-Mobile's new wireless Internet strategy fronted by the Google brand at the expense of t-zones and T-Mobile's download services. ...

Merger and acquisition activity has been rife in the past 18 months, redefining the BeNeLux market as operators jostle to achieve more competitive businesses. With consolidation sure to continue, what ...

The MVNO challenge falls down in the High Street. MNOs have superior retail channels, but are they really using them properly? Operators have to become better retailers, and this could ...

The Indian telecom market is rapidly changing. Systems integrators traditionally held great control in the customer/carrier relationship. Now, carriers want more to themselves and are pushing hard into managed services ...

German mobile tariffs are riddled with confusing terms and conditions, keeping voice revenues low. Operators are trying new offers, but add-ons and bundles don't fit the needs of many consumers: ...

As more application developers burst into the voice arena with free VoIP programs, the traditional telco faces a loss of market share and further revenue erosion. How can carriers stem ...

Commercial mobile TV trials in Finland have pushed all of the right buttons for mobile operators. Consumers are willing to pay and eager to consume the content on offer. Still, ...

The German market is hungry for an MVNO, but possible entrants are holding back. This is a mistake and the time to launch an MVNO in Germany is now. ...

As traditional providers of both the "air' and "devices' involved in wide-area connectivity, wireless operators are in a fair position to bundle access with end-point security services. All that's missing ...

There has been merger and acquisition action aplenty thus far in 2005, redefining markets as carriers jostle to achieve more competitive businesses. Such consolidation is sure to continue, but what ...

When incumbents bundle fixed and wireless services to win back customers, mobile-only operators protest; but it is only a defensive move. Regulators must ensure market transparency and users' ability to ...

It's too early to panic about mobile viruses. Still, operators should already be thinking of ways to turn this potential threat into a killer value-added service in the mid-term. ...

xDSL providers in the BeNeLux are actively flirting with consumers and enterprises, offering duo and triple play service propositions previously available only from cable operator suitors, and customers are responding ...

LAN your WAN is the message from UK's cable operators as they hunt for business customers. Both have grabbed market attention with national Ethernet VPN launches, but is there enough ...

Europe's MVNE community is gearing up for a busy year, with pan-European expansion at the top of the agenda. The MVNO threat is now starting to spread from the Nordics ...

The clampdown on the wholesale market has given resurgence to trading exchanges offering scale (i.e., coverage and volume), new sales channels, cost control and risk management. Their role will ...

Fixed-to-mobile convergence is a topical subject, yet few fixed operators seem interested in offering such services to SMEs. With the PTT distracted and leading alternative Arcor hamstrung, the market ...

Pragmatic as ever, Dutch operators now accept that migration strategies alone are not enough to nurture loyalty in a prepaid-dominated market. The emphasis now is geared towards extending customer lifecycles ...