CAMBRIDGE, U.K.-Wireless operators have less than 24 months to define, design and implement new charging architectures for mobile data services, according to a new report from U.K.-based consulting firm Analysys.Existing billing systems are not prepared to meet the requirements of data and multimedia services,...
LONDON-The European Commission has commissioned a study on trading radio spectrum within the EC. The study begins this fall and will be completed in May 2004.The EC appointed Analysys Consulting Ltd., DotEcon Ltd. and Hogan & Hartson to undertake the study through a $458,000...
LONDON-By 2008, more than 40 percent of mobile-equipped employees will wirelessly check company e-mail, calendars and contact data, according to research firm Analysys."Increasing revenue will come from general Web access over mobile networks, but this alone will not be enough to convince businesses to...
WASHINGTON-The state of Michigan is the best state at promoting the deployment of broadband services, according to a report released on Thursday by TechNet, a high-tech policy think tank."Michigan leads the list of states that have enacted policies to accelerate broadband deployment and spur...
FALLS CHURCH, Va.-Value-added services on mobile messaging networks will generate more than $8.3 billion by 2008, compared with almost $5 million in 2003, according to research from Telecom Trends International.The study examines revenues generated by value-added messaging services, including marketing and promotional campaigns; corporate...
LONDON-The downloadable application market could generate a staggering $7 billion worldwide by 2008, according to wireless research and consulting company Strategy Analytics.The firm said wireless operators need to leverage their billing assets in order to develop both retail and wholesale download strategies. The firm...
BEIJING-China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) estimates the production capacity of the 36 mobile-phone manufacturers in China will reach 250 million this year, up from 100 million last year, while sales are expected to reach 170 million handsets. Some analysts fear the world market...
CAMBRIDGE, U.K.-Market research firm Analysys has released a new report warning European operators against a price war between fixed and mobile carriers as fixed-to-mobile service substitution continues. Such a battle could see the total voice market in Europe fall from $189.6 billion in 2002...
CAMBRIDGE, U.K.-Market research firm Analysys has released a new report warning European operators against a price war between fixed and mobile carriers as fixed-to-mobile service substitution continues. Such a battle could see the total voice market in Europe fall from $189.6 billion in 2002...
CAMBRIDGE, U.K.-Market research firm Analysys has released a new report warning European operators against a price war between fixed and mobile carriers as fixed-to-mobile service substitution continues. Such a battle could see the total voice market in Europe fall from $189.6 billion in 2002...
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Research and advisory firm Analysys predicted that downloadable wireless games will become so popular in Western Europe that in just three years they will replace ring tones as the area's most popular wireless entertainment service.The firm said that mobile games offer the...
BEIJING-Consultants CCID, affiliated with China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) and Analysys Consulting, a partner of the Gartner Group, published conflicting figures on China's handset market in the third quarter.CCID listed the rankings as Motorola (28.9 percent), Nokia (25.7 percent), Samsung (7.4 percent), TCL...
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-U.K. consultancy Analysys released a new report that reiterates that the Western European mobile market is reaching saturation levels, with growth of only 3 percent during the first six months of the year.The strong slowdown in growth from previous years, when subscriber...
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-U.K. consultancy Analysys released a new report that reiterates that the Western European mobile market is reaching saturation levels, with growth of only 3 percent during the first six months of the year.The strong slowdown in growth from previous years, when subscriber...
DUBLIN, Ireland—The imminent launch of the XDA, an O2-branded mobile device manufactured specifically for that operator, is clear evidence that European operators are demanding more input into handset development. However, it is more likely to be an extreme but isolated example of operator control...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Finnish company First Hop claimed that a number of European cell-phone operators are conducting trials of its compression and caching technologies, which could significantly speed up the data transmission rates on General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) networks. According to Timo Laaksonen, chief...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—According to one of the United Kingdom's largest cell-phone retailers, Carphone Warehouse, less than 1 percent of the 170,000 customers that purchased General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) phones signed up for the high-speed service. The company said that while GPRS phones made...
GENEVA—General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) roaming exchanges (GRX) are rapidly emerging as a profitable new service niche in Europe and around the world, as mobile operators get serious about GPRS and struggle to come to grips with the complex roaming and billing issues surrounding...
CAMBRIDGE, U.K.—Revenue for mobile services in Western Europe will reach $85.7 billion in 2002, only four percent more than in 2001, according to recent research by Analysys. Mobile services revenue grew 12 percent between 2000 and 2001, and the research company cites fewer new...
GENEVA—Europe’s mobile users will likely wait much longer than expected for next-generation cellular, as the daunting implications of full-scale third-generation (3G) deployment are finally brought home to the region’s 60-plus operators.With many players already having committed hundreds of millions of euros to securing national...
DUBLIN, Ireland-The cost of building individual third-generation (3G) networks has been described as a noose around the neck of European mobile operators already struggling with huge debts. But several 3G license winners could gain at least a stay of execution in the form of...
As carriers and companies worldwide rush to offer all kinds of location-based services, one consulting firm is warning that location-based services may not live up to the wireless industry's expectations.Telecommunications and new media advisor firm Analysys released a report cautioning that location-based services may...
DUBLIN, Ireland-The massive sums being invested in third-generation (3G) licenses, network development and acquisitions have placed the major European operators firmly under the financial spotlight. While observers agree there is no significant cause for concern yet, it is also clear operators are being forced...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-While the use of mobile communications in Europe continues to grow beyond everyone's wildest expectations, the latest bid of $140 billion by Vodafone AirTouch plc for the Mannesmann empire has caused many a jaw to drop in stunned amazement.This record-breaking bid has...
