As per Delta Partners predictions: The Saudi telecom market keeps delivering on its promise of growth in 2011

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Josep Que

The continuous positive growth trend for the telecom market in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, predicted in the Delta Partners whitepaper “The rise of Saudi Arabian telecoms”,  back in September 2010 has been confirmed last week when its three telecommunication … Read more

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More than meets the eye

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Juan Jose Rio

On the 6th of December 2011, approx 1 month ago, a top investment bank published “Pan-Asia Telecoms – The Risky Side of Data”. A very interesting report with useful data points, certainly worth reading. In this report, this bank basically … Read more

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Monetising mobile data with personalised traffic management : a balancing act

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Rick Zhen

One of the biggest headaches for mobile operators these days is how to deal with the paradox of monetising mobile data: the demand for data is enormous, with traffic growing at ~160% per year, yet revenues are growing at a … Read more

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The battle for the living room: Video Games consoles at play

Posted on August 24, 2011 by Oriol Guiu

Recently, Orb Networks launched a new software that transforms the PS3 into a virtual media player. The software brings to the TV not only TV shows and movies from premium video service providers such as Hulu, Netflix, Amazon VOD and … Read more

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A week in the life of smartphone OSes

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Farid Lekhal

Last week saw the emergence of two major events in the mobile field. First Google acquired Motorola for $12.5bn, and then HP announced it was shutting down WebOS, though the $10bn acquisition of Autonomy and the planned spinoff of the … Read more

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Will Facebook and Google become the final saviors of Video Calling?

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Jose Maria Dot Escartin

Last month, the two giants of the internet era launched video call services. Google, through its new hangout application in the Google + social media pilot and the social networking phenomenon- Facebook-, with its Video Call applet powered by Skype. … Read more

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Spain’s spectrum auction is over, with few surprises but with valuable lessons learned for other countries

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Daniel Torras

On July 29th Spain’s Ministry of Industry announced that the auction for spectrum in the 800, 900 and 2600 MHz bands had concluded, after 22 days and 166 rounds of bidding. The total proceeds from the auction amounted to €1.6 … Read more

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The Edge of the Cloud

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Kostadin Atanasov

Cloud computing is a hot topic in the ICT circles around the world and there is a good reason for that. Gartner estimates that the market for cloud computing services will grow from $80 billion today to $150 billion in … Read more

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Telecoms in emerging markets: New game, new rules

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Kristoff Puelinckx

It’s been a while since executives in the industry have been talking about the changing competitive landscape, the saturation of the markets, the pressure on margins, the changing expectations of investors and analysts.  As many industry observers would say, our … Read more

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Digital Dividend spectrum auctions: the holy grail of fairness or the epitome of greed?

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Daniel Torras

Governments and telecom regulators across Europe are gearing up for what promises to be a very interesting next couple of years. A wealth of radiofrequency spectrum is becoming available, and in the midst of big budget pressures and with the … Read more

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