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3 Announces X-Series Pricing — And It’s Pretty Awesome
12.01.06 | Permalink | 2 Comments5 pounds per month, or 10 if you want Sling. That’s fantastic.
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Mobile Operators, Mobile Phone Evolution
3, Oh How You Make Me Feel Conflicted
11.17.06 | Permalink | 13 CommentsFor a long time, it was pretty easy to poke holes in (and fun of) Hutchison’s 3G operator, 3. From the way Hutch MD Canning Fok conducted interviews, to its bone-headed insistence that video calls would lead users in droves to 3G, to its later shift to attract user by slashing the cost of the [...]
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Mobile Operators
Insert Your Own Sports Metaphor Here, Mobile ESPN Folds
09.28.06 | Permalink | Comments OffUpdate 2: Mobile ESPN has confirmed it will shut down at the end of the year, and Deadspin has the internal e-mail. Unsurprisingly, ESPN plans to try to license the content to other operators. You know, if they would have asked last fall, somebody probably could have pointed this out and saved them the trouble, [...]
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Mobile Operators
Sprint Races Ahead, Chooses Mobile WiMAX For 4G
08.08.06 | Permalink | 4 CommentsSince its merger with Nextel, Sprint’s been sitting on a huge amount of 2.5GHz spectrum across the US, and its long-held intention has been to use it to build out a nationwide mobile broadband network. After testing or evaluating nearly every suitable technology out there, the company announced today that it will use mobile WiMax, [...]
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Mobile Operators, Mobile techie stuff
Customer Service is an Opportunity, Not a Cost
07.25.06 | Permalink | 4 CommentsOne of my constant themes here at MobHappy is that any customer interaction is an opportunity. It’s an opportunity to increase satisfaction and loyalty, increase advocacy, increase usage of basic services, encourage usage of more services and ultimately decrease churn. It also makes your marketing costs more efficient as it costs significantly less to maximise revenues [...]
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Mobile Operators, Mobile Society
9% of US Citizens Have Cut the Cord
06.01.06 | Permalink | 8 CommentsAccording to the Pew Research centre (via eMarketer) between 7% and 9% of US citizens have now cut the cord and rely solely on the mobile phone, eschewing a landline altogether.
This is no longer a niche habit - more people only have mobile telephony, for instance, than are vegetarians.
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Announcements, Mobile Operators
Telia Offers All You Can Eat SMS Price
05.04.06 | Permalink | 3 CommentsTelia, the Swedish operator, announced to day a fixed price sms package for their customers of $13.50 (£7.30) a month. Their customers can send as many sms as they like for that. Well, up to a fair use maximum of 5,000, which seems pretty reasonable.
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Mobile Operators, Mobile Phone Evolution
Helio Launches Today
05.02.06 | Permalink | 2 CommentsHelio, the US MVNO that’s a joint venture between SK Telecom and Earthlink, has launched today, and will begin selling its Kickflip (right) and Hero phones through its site and other channels. After the phones, the first thing that jumps out about Helio is the price — its lowest “All-In” package checks in a a [...]
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Mobile Operators
More Details On Xero’s Plans
04.14.06 | Permalink | 7 CommentsBusinessWeek’s got a puff piece on Xero Mobile, the second coming of Gizmondo I wrote about earlier this week. It repeats the company’s projections that it will 5 million users by the end of 2007, and will generate $1.5 billion in revenues “in its third year” (2008, I presume, but in any case, good luck [...]
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Mobile Operators
Selling Dollars For A Dime
03.03.06 | Permalink | 2 CommentsI linked yesterday to an Om Malik post where he talked about a new report saying that MVNOs aren’t the licenses to print money that many people think they are. The report did note that “next-generation” MVNOs, which are eschewing the low-cost, barebones model of current virtual operators in favor of offering premium services at [...]
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