The European Commission’s competition watchdog has opened an in-depth investigation into the proposed creation of a mobile wallet joint venture by UK carriers Vodafone, Telefónica and Everything Everywhere (T-Mobile and Orange).
India’s Bharti Airtel has bought the mobile masts of Rwandan carrier Rwandatel for $15.5m, after the African firm went into liquidation in 2011.
The average mobile customer switches service provider every 27 months, more than twice as frequently as a decade ago, according to research released this week. At the end of 2011, 44 per cent of global mobile subscribers churned – the highest level ever – according to Strategy Analytics.
Thanks to the explosion in smartphones and tablets, the mobile workforce is fast becoming a reality; according to IDC, over half of Europe’s workforce will be working remotely by 2013. The opportunities for better communication and more collaboration are vast and yet, even with the latest technology, without a clear unified communications strategy, organisations can find that more points of contact do not automatically lead to increased levels of productivity.
Photo sharing startup Instagram has been acquired by social darling Facebook for an estimated $1bn, or a quarter of the network’s 2011 revenues.
Online payment giant Paypal has named entrepreneur and founder of Zong, David Marcus, as its president. Marcus had held the position of VP of mobile since the acquisition of Zong last year.
Handset partners Microsoft and Nokia will each invest up to €9m in a development program to drive training, support and startup business opportunities through the AppCampus program at Aalto University, Finland.
Turkish operator Turkcell has enlisted HP to deliver a cloud services platform, so the carrier can sell on ‘as a service’ offerings to its business customers.
John Sims, President of Sybase 365, talks to telecoms.com about building customer engagement through mobile commerce and mobile messaging in both the emerging and developed markets.
US carrier Sprint has officially broken up with troubled LTE wholesale opportunist LightSquared, ending the spectrum hosting agreement signed in June 2011. As part of the break up, Sprint has repaid $65m to LightSquared, for expected costs that have not been incurred.
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Over The Top providers have become the staple wildcard in almost any sector set on a collision path with mobile. By and large they are very good at what they do: connecting a user with their chosen content or service by whatever means available.
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