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The Data Capacity Crunch, Part 5: Informa

The Data Capacity Crunch, Part 5: Informa

The Data Capacity Crunch In the fifth and final part of a series of Amdocs-sponsored interviews addressing the impact of the mobile data capacity crunch, we talk to Dario Talmesio, senior analyst at Informa, about sender-pays data, tiered data pricing and more. This series is jointly produced with the talented people at Mobile Entertainment magazine‘s [...]

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The Data Capacity Crunch, Part 4: Nokia & RIM

The Data Capacity Crunch, Part 4: Nokia & RIM

The Data Capacity Crunch In the fourth of a series of Amdocs-sponsored interviews addressing the impact of the mobile data capacity crunch, we talk to Sanyu Kiruluta, head of developer relations at RIM EMEA, and Rupert Englander, head of services & marketing at Nokia UK. This series is jointly produced with the talented people at [...]

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The Data Capacity Crunch, Part 3: Amdocs

The Data Capacity Crunch, Part 3: Amdocs

The Data Capacity Crunch In the third of a series of interviews addressing the impact of the mobile data capacity crunch, we talk to Nick East, General Manager of OSS at Amdocs, about growth in demand, traffic types and management strategies. Over to Nick: This series is jointly produced with the talented people at Mobile [...]

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‘At the carphone warehouse, you won’t pay extra for internet’

That headline is a direct quote from a radio advertisement I heard just now from the Carphone Warehouse. Bad news for the market. Bad news for the data crunch. Bad news for the end customer. Very bad news. It’s bad news because it’s educating consumers that the internet has little value. So little value that [...]

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How Facebook could really nail the mobile operators

I participated in an array of superb briefings last week at Mobile World Congress. The issue of the ‘data crunch’ was never far from the conversation. One company I met on Sunday morning prior to MWC was apoplectic with rage about Facebook, Google and Apple. I won’t go into detail about the company’s identity except [...]

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Let’s kill ‘unlimited’ once and for all?

Ben Smith over at the all new Wireless Worker site makes a rather challenging point about the mobile data market: We have a chance – let’s kill ‘unlimited’ once and for all The word ‘unlimited’ has been abused too much and too long by telecoms companies to be rehabilitated. It should be killed off now we [...]

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The Data Capacity Crunch, Part 2

The Data Capacity Crunch, Part 2

The Data Capacity Crunch In Part 2 of our video series focusing on the data capacity crunch, we talk to Sky’s Business Development Director, Emma Lloyd, to find out her perspective on the issue. Over to Emma… This series is jointly produced with the talented people at Mobile Entertainment magazine‘s ME TV channel.

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The Data Capacity Crunch, Part 1

The Data Capacity Crunch, Part 1

The Data Capacity Crunch In Part 1 of our video series focusing on the data capacity crunch, we talk to o2′s Head of Consumer Marketing, Jonathan Earle to find out his perspective on the issue. Over to Jonathan… This series is jointly produced with the talented people at Mobile Entertainment magazine‘s ME TV channel.

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Two Weeks and Nothing?

I’ve been away for a week (because I moved house); and it’s all been a bit hectic! Unfortunately I didn’t have the internet for about two weeks, and thus I’ve been cut out of the online world of MIR. So when I got my connection back some time late last week, I was mildly hoping [...]

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Is 2.5% enough?

I need not point out the current economic climate to any one of you; the news is bombarded with stories highlighting the latest business failure, another stage in the economic down turn, and how it’s getting frightfully worse. Then, Mr. Darling the UK’s Chancellor for the Exchequer announced yet another Government attempt to revitalise our [...]

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