Driving revenue growth in Western Europe23 January 2008Western Europe proves tough-going for Vodafone and T-Mobile, says Gavin Patterson. The ever-increasing importance of cultivating new revenue streams… Read more |
Developing markets are an increasing focus of investment deals04 December 2007There has been precious little M&A activity in the European mobile market during the second half of this year, with operators instead looking to… Read more |
Telenor and Altimo start end-game for Kyivstar - and about time too05 November 2007Surely Altimo and Telenor must now be nearing the end of their ill-fated marriage. Surely, the irreconcilable differences must soon force some kind of… Read more |
ITU faces an uphill task on spectrum harmonisation15 October 2007The ability of those attending the International Telecommunications Union-led World Radio Conference 2007 (WRC-07) to identify spectrum to use for… Read more |
Qualcomm may be fined, but not any time soon08 October 2007On October 1 the European Commission (EC) announced it had initiated formal anti-trust proceedings against Qualcomm almost two years to the day after… Read more |
Altimo deals body blow to TeliaSonera independence18 June 2007The June 12 dismissal of Anders Igel as CEO of TeliaSonera is largely being attributed to his failure to establish control over two of the company's… Read more |
Europe could learn a lot from Africa04 April 2007European Union telecoms ministers recently announced a plan to introduce caps on mobile roaming prices, of Eur 0.50 (US$0.66) a minute across the EU's… Read more |
All NGMN roads do not necessarily lead to LTE!20 February 2007Sprint Nextel says its involvement with the Next Generation Mobile Networks initiative does not mean it will automatically adopt 3GPP's LTE technology… Read more |
3G - The African promise14 September 2006Gavin Patterson explores the reality of 3G in Africa and finds the promise of 3G means different things to different people... More operators in… Read more |
China's licensing conundrum25 July 2006The 3G Mobile China International Summit and Exhibition in Beijing July 6-7 was widely expected to shed some more light on the timetable for 3G… Read more |

