Qwest Communications and KPMG have announced their intention to set up a $120m joint venture, Qwest Cyber.Solutions LLC. It will provide application management solutions for firms that want to outsource their Internet activities.
The UK is still the company's biggest subscriber base with an extra 360,000 users joining the fold to make a UK total of 14.2 million.mmO2 has however done some creative pruning on its user numbers. We want to be strong in retention," Erskine said.
The subscriber numbers that 3 has managed to rack up have come largely off the back of bucket pricing for call minutes. G will put the operators back into growth stage, yet there is a desperate need to keep the retention mindset.
Forrester associate analyst Manuel Mendez said: "IT departments will need to focus on generating more new IT investment budget for critical business objectives like customer acquisition and retention and for key IT initiatives like configuration...
The research focused on the opinions of 250 UK and Irish IT decision-makers in larger companies - with revenues in excess of €100m. As for smaller companies, they are often far too busy getting on with their business objectives.
Faced with competition from pay TV and free-to-air terrestrial TV providers, carriers will resort to low-priced services and bundles to drive subscriber uptake. Gartner defines IPTV as the delivery of video over a carrier's managed broadband...