SMS in UK
Who says SMS is fading? The graph below proves to the contrary (Source: Text.it – the UK’s Official Guide to Messaging) Read more
Web Resources for Mobile Businesses
Useful links from Mobile Data Association
Trade Associations
Mobile Data Association www.themda.org
Bluetooth www.bluetooth.com
Digital Television Group www.dtg.org.uk
Direct Marketing Association www.the-dma.org
European Digital Media Association EDIMA www.europeandigitalmediaassociation.org
European Telecommunications Resilience and Recovery Association (ETR²A) www.etr2a.org
GS1 UK cross-sector supply chain standards www.gs1uk.org
GSM Association www.gsmworld.com
Intellect www.intellectuk.org
Mobile Computer Users Group www.mcug.org.uk
Mobile Entertainment Forum www.m-e-f.org
Mobile tv Taskforce www.dtg.org.uk/mobile
Mobitex Association www.mobitex.org
Network for Online Commerce www.noconline.org
Project Nomad www.projectnomad.org.uk
Premium Rate Association www.praltd.co.uk
Royal Television Society www.rts.org.uk
The Portable Computer and Communications Association www.pcca.org
The Open Group www.opengroup.org
Why WAP Isn't As Bad As People Say
Source: wapcatalog.com
“It’s unlucky that the acronym for Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) has such an unfortunate rhyme! Even more unlucky for WAP, it burst onto the mobile communication scene with lavish promises from the Mobile Operators (you know who you are) of ‘The Internet on your Mobile’ and ‘Take the Internet with you’. Read more
Mobile vs. Internet Operators
I just can’t stop thinking about the past and the future: Internet vs. Mobile. Can we learn something?
There is much discussion about mobile operators being THAT monopoly taking the position between mobile users and content. Content and technology providers work through operators who are not capable of adequately servicing ideas coming from marketers. What is the future of this situation? Read more
Twitter: Cool but Unreliable?
From the dialogue between two Norse ‘linguists’ on the language of the Bjarmaland people, Örvar-Odds Saga, ca. 13th century:
‘Skilr þú hér nokkut mál manna?’ sagði Oddr. ‘Eigi heldr en fuglaklið,’ sagði Ásmundr.
‘Do you know anything about the language of these people?’ asked Oddr. ‘No more than the twittering of birds,’ said Ásmundr.
Twitter is pretty hot: TIME magazine, as reported on their site, said: “Twitter is on its way to becoming the next killer app.”
Mobile Public Services in Russia – mGovernment?
Source: http://www.comnews.ru/, 25 Mar 2008
First portal featuring Mobile Public Services was launched in Zelenograd, Russia. The portal offers 10 public services. Soon this list will be significantly expanded.
The portal is next step of Mobile County Project initiated in October 2007. The project integrates SMS and WAP services with the existing document workflow and geographic information system “Zelenograd”. According to Prefect of Zelenograd (Administrative Division of Moscow), Anatolyi Smirnov, the project is a part of electronic services initiative being realized in Zelenograd. Read more
Mobile Churn is Approaching 40%
Research from Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software shows that customer defection rates (aka ‘churn’) within the mobile telecoms sector have risen from 33.4% in 2005 to 38.6% in 2007 – an increase of 15.3%.“The world is becoming generally more mobile and less loyal,” says Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software VP, International Marketing, Andrew Greenyer. “Yet despite all the effort and investment going into customer retention and loyalty, the effective strategies implemented by well known success story companies are not yet the norm.
Commenting specifically on mobile churn, Greenyer says:
“Mobile Telecoms remains a very fluid area. Here, strong brands are evidently having an effect, with the issue of content provision likely to be a key factor in future churn (or indeed inertia) patterns. 3G provision has initially disappointed consumers, leading to massive churn. Nevertheless, the sector is so volatile that this situation may easily reverse after its initial customer relationship difficulties.
Sourсe: mobilemarketingmagazine.co.uk
AT&T wants to control Internet traffic
Source: web20.telecomtv.com
14/01/2008
by CommsDay
“AT&T could become the first US carrier to officially block Internet traffic from its pipes. Representatives from the firm told the New York Times that data flows could be reaching a critical point where heavy content policing is necessary.
Speaking at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show, legal affairs head James Cicconi said major service providers probably ought to begin inspecting traffic and quashing infringing works to help kill off piracy and improve bandwidth”.
Sistema Took a Foothold in India
Source: http://www.cnews.ru/, 01/12/08
The Indian authorities came to the unexpected decision in distribution of telecommunication licenses. JSFC Sistema, the largest Russian telecommunication corporation, received the nationwide license to operate on the whole territory of India at the time when a whole group of companies with much higher priority for receiving Indian telecommunication licenses were suspended from participation in the tender for the licenses. Analysts are sure that Russians have won the tender only due to their administrative resources.
MVNO – 'the next big thing' or dead-end business?
Amp’d Mobile and Disney Mobile, two of the biggest MVNOs in the U.S., crashed. Is MVNO a dead-end business-model?
See some reasons of failure in the article
