In-depth examination of areas of critical importance to mobile network operator planning and strategy
Growth in communications markets is currently based on mobile data networks, mobile devices, cloud services and social media services, and the converged content that these products and services hav...
See moreOver the past five years smartphones, tablets and other portable connected devices have been introduced to the market and have been enthusiastically adopted by consumers, such that many consumers n...
See moreMobile operators are facing the ongoing challenge of meeting demand for ever more bandwidth for data transmission without corresponding increases in revenues - as the price per megabyte of data tra...
See moreIn the earlier Maximising Wireless Profit (MWP) Convergence Watch - Key Europ...
See moreThe Asian market for converged services is strongly biased towards the mobile internet. There is generally a great deal of diversity in the region with markets exhibiting a wide range of ...
See moreMobile Market Development has been producing its series of Convergence Watch papers since 2007. During that time we have reviewed the changing iterations of converged propositions promoted by incum...
See moreThe quality of an operator's customer service provision is one of the main differentiators between MNOs, now that mobile services are largely perceived as commodity products, with little to cho...
See moreOperators with both fixed and mobile networks are looking to convergence as a means of increasing revenues per subscriber and increasing customer retention. The growth in the installed base of fixe...
See moreIn an increasingly competitive market all operators are seeking better ways to retain and attract customers. When offering largely commoditised services in converged service packages, customer serv...
See moreConvergence offers the possibility to operators of offering a range of services in a seamless manner to their customers, and many have set out to deliver just this. However the rapid spread of the ...
See moreConvergence, often enabled by mergers and takeovers of different companies, allows operators to provide multiple services over common infrastructures that in the past would have been seen by custom...
See moreAs convergence and bundling becomes the norm and customers become used to purchasing their communications services as a bundle, they are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their assessment of t...
See moreA focus in the German market, since MMD last reviewed convergence in 2007, has been on deploying broadband using various channels, such as DSL and cable to extend coverage to a wider section of the...
See moreConvergence offers the potential to deliver multiple services to customers. Apart from delivering additional revenues and improving returns on the investment made, supplying multiple services to on...
See moreJust over half of all UK households buy their communications services in a bundle, as of Q1 2010. UK telecom operators' approaches towards bundling and convergence have changed since 2007 (when...
See moreThe French convergence market is one of the most advanced in Europe with a strong deployment of operators' branded multimedia boxes across French households supporting ADSL and fibre optic broa...
See moreThe Italian convergence market exhibits unique characteristics due to the popularity of mobile services that have contributed to a decline in a fixed line market, which continues to be dominated by...
See moreOver the last three years the Spanish market has witnessed different forms of convergence, involving brand integration, increased uptake of multi-play propositions and availability of cross-platfor...
See moreThe continued development and deployment of converged all-IP networks is facilitating the development of multi-play offerings by operators. However, of greater impact in the development of the mark...
See moreTwo recent reports from Mobile Market Development's 'Maximising Wireless Profit' Program 2009 have investigated developments in mobile broadband: ...
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