Analysts and telecom executives haven’t been highlighting extensively product and service commoditization as the main risk operators will face in the coming years driven by their marginalization into the value chain as a mere “bit pipe” provider. Meanwhile new media players are expanding their reach in the mobile space with strong and global brands threatening current operator’s revenues.
Faced with a bleak prospect, many have considered that Telco’s future is to become just a dump pipe similar to what utility companies are today. But, how true is this hypothetical and “devastating” outlook?
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One of the biggest challenges technology companies face these days is to maintain a fast pace of innovation and try to foster an entrepreneurial culture where employees can bring lead and drive the development of new ideas.
Google is a great example of innovative culture and one of the programs that I really like is their Innovation 80/20 model, so called “innovation time off”, where employees are encourages spending up to 20% of their time working in their own innovation projects or ideas.
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Last week Vision Mobile consulting released a new study regarding application stores. The report is extremely interesting since the main sponsor is Telefonica developer community and some of the findings are quite disruptive showing how mobile operators losing the battle for application developer’s heart. continue reading »
Some weeks back, the United States Federal Communications Commission released a survey on consumer mobile experience. The survey indicated that 30 million Americans or one in six mobile users have experienced “bill shock,” a sudden increase in their monthly bill that is not caused by a change in service plan.
It also discovered that almost 50% of mobile users who have plans with early termination fees and 66% of home broadband users with early termination plans don’t know the amount of the fees they’re accountable for.
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During a Barclay’s conference last week, Verizon Wireless CEO, Lowell McAdam stated that for the commericial launch of its LTE network some time this year, the company will be introducing a tiered or metered pricing data plans.
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How many megabytes occupies the last movie you downloaded? What about the last email you sent? While most people know how many minutes they spend on phone calls, most of us don’t have any idea or notion on how many megabytes are needed to send a particular email, download photos, browse the Internet or update your profile on Facebook. And precisely that is the basis of metered broadband models, or Internet access traffic based on volume rather than flat fee rates. continue reading »
Probably one of the most farsighted and most well renowned logos in the mobile industry was “Connecting people” from Nokia, the finish handset manufacturer. The slogan, created by Ove Strandberg, established the vision of the mobile industry during the last decade: connect 6 Billion people via wireless technology. Clearly, the wireless industry has done an incredible job on fulfilling this shared vision. Currently, more than 4 Billion users around the world communicate via a mobile device and in the next 3 years another 1 Billion people will join them. Besides, wireless broadband is growing exponentially and via 2014 most of internet connections will be performed via wireless network.
But the question today is what is going to be the next decade motto for this industry?
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The Center for Marketing Research from Massachusetts Dartmouth University just released a new research about Social media adoption from Inc. 500; a list of the fastest-growing private U.S. companies compiled annually by Inc. Magazine. The new study compares adoption of social media over three years (2007, 2008 and 2009) by the Inc. 500.
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It looks like everyone wants to have an Application store: you see Apple celebrating three billion downloads milestone, RIM and Google launching their own apps store to support BlackBerry and Android phones respectively and even operators like China Mobile, Vodafone and Telefonica exploring this avenue.
But have you thought on automobile applications store?
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According to Piper Jaffray analyst Gener Munster, Apple could sell up to 36 Million Iphones globally in 2010. This implies a 40% increase from 2009, where Apple sold 25 million Iphones.
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