Telefonica has been trying different strategies to tap into the exponential growth of social media phenomenon. And tt seems like this time they are making their biggest bet in this area by acquiring 90% of Tuenti, the second largest social networking site in Spain for 75 Million Euros.
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?
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.
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.
comScore latest social networking market study found that more than 30% of smartphone users accessed social networking sites via their mobile phones in January 2010 , up 36% compared to 22.5% one year back.
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?
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.
After a series of speculations about Google’s launching their own mobile, the company announced today in Mountain View, California, their new mobile phone called Nexus One, which is described as a fast moving, bright and connected.
Is clear that the decade 2000-2010 made profound changes in all levels of our lifes. From the way we communicate, interact, socialize, entertain to new paradigms settled in many industries, I think is a good time to stop and think about the biggest losers during the last ten years.
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