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Verizon and Google’s Net Neutrality ‘Policy Framework for Lawmakers’ creates Furor on both sides of the Atlantic

by Sue Rudd | Aug 11, 2010

August 11th 2010 Doing the FCC’s job? On Monday August 9th. Verizon and Google issued a joint ‘suggested policy framework for lawmakers’ which reads as if ... ...

Orange’s CONQUESTS 2015 Strategy Plays to Global Profit Opportunities

by Philip Kendall | Jul 06, 2010

Yesterday in Paris, Orange unveiled its new five-year strategic plan, Conquests 2015. The plan covers four strategic priorities: The conques... ...

Lower Smartphone Data Plans Smart Business for AT&T

by David Kerr | Jun 04, 2010

The inevitable movement to tiered pricing which started with Verizon Wireless acknowledging its plans to do so for LTE and has been a... ...

Net Neutrality: Cut the Rhetoric, Deal with the Issues

by Sue Rudd | May 27, 2010

Throttle or Choke.‘Net Neutrality’ proponents argue that there should be no restrictions by service providers on any type of end-user access to content, equ... ...

A New World Order in Connected Devices?

by David Kerr | May 20, 2010

May you live in interesting times as the old Chinese proverb goes. Well in the information, communication and entertainment industry we certainly do. ... ...

German Spectrum Auction promises Mobile Broadband for Rural Areas

by Philip Kendall | Apr 28, 2010

The bids in Germany’s current spectrum auctions are starting to add up. With a range of spectrum on the table (800MHz, 1800MHz, 2GHz and 2.6GHz), it is the digi... ...

Innovation at Mobile Operators is Possible. Really!

by David Kerr | Mar 30, 2010

Returning from CTIA in Las Vegas last week and with only 2 days before going off on vacation to Florida, I found myself reflecting that two of the most interes... ...

FCC Plan enables Wireless to fill the US ‘Broadband Availability Gap’

by Sue Rudd | Mar 24, 2010

Newton MA.USA. The size and bureaucratic tone of the FCC’ s ‘Connecting America :The National Broadband Plan’ conceal some exciting implications for broadband... ...

Telecommunications Industry: Glass is ‘Half-Full’ in 2010

by Sue Rudd | Mar 03, 2010

March 3rd. 2010, Newton MA. USA Tariff and Revenue Strategy(TRS) service looks at the financial outlook for service providers in 2010 and 2011. Although gr... ...

Take My Money, Just Don’t Hit Me in the Face

by Philip Kendall | Mar 02, 2010

We are currently updating Q4 operational/financial data in our Wireless Operator Performance Benchmarking research, with the last 7 days seeing a large number o... ...

The End is Nigh

by Philip Kendall | Feb 03, 2010

Softbank Japan will be switching off its 2G mobile network next month, one of the first WCDMA operators in the world to do so. In its financial results on Tue... ...

Google Nexus One after the dust settles

by David Kerr | Jan 11, 2010

Afte the inevitable wave of irrational exuberance has come the equally inevitable correction and flow of negative comments regarding Google Nexus One. We are... ...

Telefonica Acquires Jajah: If you can’t beat them, buy them

by Philip Kendall | Jan 05, 2010

Telefonica’s acquisition of VoIP service provider Jajah over the Christmas period was an interesting move for a very much traditional telco. Jajah is one of the... ...

Beyond the Recession: Mobile Ecosystem 2010 Megatrends

by David Kerr | Dec 04, 2009

As we rapidly close the cover on one of the toughest years the telecommunications, content and internet industries have ever seen, SA takes a look ahead... ...

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