Handset manufacturers should join operators and wireless streaming solution providers to reinforce standards and best practices in the industry. Californian-based Luxxon provides streaming media technologies, including transcoding gateways and...
We will therefore be back to operators differentiating on bundles and offers, exactly as they do in the voice space. What sort of problems will that lead to, asks Quocirca senior analyst Dale Vile, as they increasingly use complex data and...
Simon Bureau, MD of Vectis and co-author of the report said in a statement: "With such long experience, Korean operators were able to implement clearly defined business models for all aspects of the music value chain from the creation of ringback...
With the splash created by the iPhone, analyst house MultiMedia Intelligence says the industry is witnessing the evolution of mobile handsets - as they move from basic voice devices to multi-tooled, multimedia gadgets that are "application-centric...
Finding a viable mass market business model may never happen, he adds, and femtocells could end up being a 'loss leader' - something operators have to offer customers but can't expect to make money from, much as voice over IP.
This is due to three main factors: global growth in the number of mobile subscribers - predicted to hit 4.4 billion in three years' time; the proliferation of broadband - itself driven by the popularity of apps such as social networking, online...