In my last blog, I talked about how monetizing mobile networks is a complex process that involves quite a few different strategies. In this blog, I’m going explain more what I mean by: Increasing Usage, and revenue from the usage, of the mobile network Tiered Pricing so that heavy users pay for...
Back 6 or so months ago, there was a BusinessWeek article titled "Can AT&T Tame the iHogs" . At the time, there were issues surfacing publicly about outages on the wireless networks, with AT&T and other network operators such as O2 in the UK. AT&T said that 3% of users accounted...
India is one of the largest mobile subscriber markets in the world, and on April 9 th , bidding for the 3G slots started. Two slots are already been awarded to the government agencies MTNL and BSNL, with essentially 3 other slots available. Obviously, the emergence of 3G networks in India, which would...
I was in New York City a couple of days before New Year’s Eve to check out the New York Christmas scene. I found myself walking through a tourist filled Times Square. Some celebrity was doing an interview there. I didn’t look to see who it was because all I wanted to do was get out of there...
Why the top 11 predictions of 2010 as opposed to the top 10, like everyone else? “Because it goes to 11.” As any fan of Spinal Tap will know, that classic line about why the volume controls on their instruments worked on a scale of 1 to 11 sums it up — because, well, it goes to 11....
This one caught me completely by surprise. This Neilson Report talks about how certain US cable companies have placed bandwidth caps on the total amount of data you can access in a month. These caps come at an inopportune time with respect to recently emerging video services on the internet. Yet, network...
I was talking recently with a friend of mine who is in the femtocell business. We were discussing all the various ways a femtocell could be used and it got me to asking the question: "Who owns the femto bandwidth?" Before we delve into the ramifications of this question, let me first provide...
One of the more interesting challenges wireless service providers face in rolling out video in 3G networks is the amount of spectrum bandwidth they have to support real-time video calls or conferencing. The issue is particularly challenging in the sense the uplink bandwidth is more constrained. I have...
