Tag Archives: Network
Cooking the mobile web
September 14, 2007, by Cyril
Ingredients: Handsets, Operators efforts, Content and Educated public.Instructions:Prepare your handsets until most of them are technically ready to display and browse mobile content.While this step is going in a good way, start the long process to shape mobile content, it must have a nice flavor of context relative.Last step you gently mix operators efforts to provide a cheap, fast and enthusiastic access. And don’t forget to pour some education on your public, so everybody will know that mobile web is cool, cheap and tasty!... Read More
Fighting data cost
August 20, 2007, by jonarne
One of the main reasons people are reluctant to use mobile internet on a regular basis is said to be the cost of data over CSD,GPRS,EDGE, UMTS etc. Not necessarily because data traffic is expensive, but rather because people are not sure of the cost due to the carriers complex price models. The European Union has, by the EU Roaming Regulation , made an effort to reduce roaming charges. However, this regulation does not include roaming charges on data traffic. This means that it is up to the mobile operators to charge as they like for data traffic. In some counties the data traffic can be as high as 12 Euro pr megabyte. [edit: just found an article from Times Online] Fortunately some carriers have seen this problem as well. So, the least we can do as developers is to keep the data traffic to a minimum.Here are some basic tips... Read More
Globally Accessible Operator WAP Portal as a channel of Worldwide Content Business
July 18, 2007, by svo9712
Almost every Telco in the world who are providing the data service facilities to their subscribers have their own operator WAP portal or intend to have one. An operator WAP portal can be a strong revenue earning source for the operator if it is properly planned architecturally as well as strategically... Read More
Data Service Tariffs and Offerings: An analysis among the Asian Operators
June 11, 2007, by svo9712
In my last article titled “Bangladesh: Data Service Dissection” I tried to give a generalized view of data service offerings by several Bangladeshi operators. Here in this article I will try to depict a comparison scenario of the data service offerings as well as the tariff models among some Asian operators. The operators are chosen from Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and Singapore to provide a clear comparative picture of Asia... Read More
Bangladesh: Data Service Dissection
May 23, 2007, by svo9712
Nowadays Asia is the focus market for the service providers and the vendors. One survey carried out by the researchers from the Russian School of Economics, the London Business School, various colleges of Cambridge University and the Anglo-Russian telecoms investment group Altimo reported Bangladesh as the number one telecom opportunity market for the manufacturers, service providers and the vendors... Read More
