Olivier Baujard, CTO of Deutsche Telekom said from the stage this morning that in his view, “the propensity for customers to spend is still increasing”. This is from a converged operator which has of course seen mobile ARPU decline and pressure on fixed broadband ARPU to travel in the same direction.
I have just read the press release and the correpsonding BBC article on Ofcom’s broadband speed report, published today. The research itself is worthy and interesting, but why the obsession with speed?
Two days of presentations and panel discussions at SaudiCom clearly demonstrated that there are lots of great ideas about how the world (or the telecoms market in KSA) could be a better place. Black Swan theories, co-opetition, partnership, new business models and all that highly worthy jazz abounded. But I think anybody could be forgiven for taking it all with a large pinch of salt.
Portugal crept into the world’s elite group of broadband connected nations at the end of 2009. With 41,500 FTTH subscribers, just under 2% of Portugal’s broadband homes used FTTH at the end of last year and the measure of eliteness used by the FTTH Council Europe, is that more than 1% of connected homes must use FTTH/B.
Ian Livingstone must have an autotext key on his laptop. This morning’s news release reads: “These results show that we are making progress. There is still a lot more to be done but our commitment to improved customer service and cost transformation is starting to deliver results.”
I’ve been in Munich for the last couple of days, listening to Nokia Siemens Networks executives tell us industry analysts all about the new company strategy. Bearing in mind who the parents of this joint venture are, old skool bastions of Northern European communications engineering, renowned for delivering solid products with solid performance, the company at first seemed to have gone all soft and fluffy.
After nearly three years on the market, though some might say the slab, Tiscali’s UK assets are to be acquired by Carphone Warehouse for £236m: less than half the value of Tiscali’s overall debt. Snapping up the UK broadband market’s number four player for a bargain basement price, looks like a good move to boost the valuation of TalkTalk in advance of its possible divestiture later this year.
Well, the Samsung Galaxy S2 LTE is already sold in Sweden by Telia so I guess Vodafone is not first.
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