A Week in Wireless
It's always the little ones
"England is a nation of shopkeepers," said Napoleon a few hundred years ago, in one of the most famous put-downs this island's people…
Tony Brown's Expert View
WiMAX could still play a role in global broadband market
The WiMAX-vs.-LTE debate has been contested furiously by backers of the technologies for years, and the weight of industry opinion has…
Rob Gallagher's Expert View
A broadband alternative?
Mobile broadband will prove no substitute for fixed-line, says Rob Gallagher. Hamid Akhavan's claim at the CeBIT trade show in March,…
Alexander Harrowell's Expert View
Motorola: we are all doomed
Motorola's crisis shows no sign of letting up. The world's second-biggest mobile phone manufacturer today revised down its sales…
Mike Hibberd's Expert View
Victims of their own success
Mike Hibberd considers how operators are facing up to the trade off of premium prices versus mobile ubiquity. The ubiquity of the…
Devine Kofiloto's Expert View
Network sharing - a recipe for future conflict?
Gradually gaining traction across the industry, network sharing is a topic high on the agenda of most operators in both developed as…
Nick Lane's Expert View
Transparent pricing: clear as mud
Nick Lane questions whether price perception the real culprit for the delay in mobile content uptake? The foundations for the…
James Middleton's Expert View
Cast adrift
For the past few years, telecoms.com's sister publication MCI has run an annual feature on mobile navigation and Location Based…
Mark Newman's Expert View
SIM-only services are key to growth in saturated markets
Mobile operators are starting to uncover new business models that help to address the problems posed by saturated mobile markets and…
Tammy Parker's Expert View
Despite the complaints, some customers prefer subsidies and ETFs
For those in the US who oppose early-termination fees, I have two words: iPhone 2.0. The retail price of the 3G version of the iPhone…
Gavin Patterson's Expert View
Driving revenue growth in Western Europe
Western Europe proves tough-going for Vodafone and T-Mobile, says Gavin Patterson. The ever-increasing importance of cultivating new…
Mike Roberts's Expert View
Mobile traffic boom will eventually revive base station market
The rapid and widespread success of mobile broadband services-which now have more than 100 million subscribers worldwide using more…
