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2010: Predictions for the year ahead
I’ve just received an interesting report from Informa. It shows their prediction of how the TMT industry will outlook in 2010. In their view, the telecoms industry is beginning to see signs of economic recovery and can look forward to sustained...
Share and share alike – Update on network sharing
Tower sharing has been one of the telecom industry’s global hot topics for close to a decade. The first wave was seen in the US and Europe, while recently, India has taken center stage with several multi-billion dollar asset carve-outs. Reading Inf...
Key questions of a scenario planning after recession.
In these fast-changing and turbulent times, businesses are facing an uncertain future and conventional business models may no longer be viable. Many management teams will need to re-assess their operations and consider a number of possible scenarios....
Portugal Telecom revenues drop 2.3%, net profit down
Once during this year, I was really impressed by one of the PT executives who just before starting a meeting told me: crack, if you are coming to the meeting to show me off charts populated with the data we publish in our site, you can directly go by...
NOC optimization in the telecom industry.
A Network Operations Center, or NOC, is the primary workspace engineers utilize to monitor, manage and troubleshoot problems on a telecom network. The Network Operations Center offers oversight of problems, configuration and change management, networ...
Unregistered prepaid clients switch off? No business sense.
It is coming the day when the Spanish telecom operators will have to disconnect all pre-paid mobile cell phones unless the owners are registered. Just for those that are unaware of this, let’s explain a little bit the policy: In an attempt to preve...
Fixed line and BB market review: Spain 2009
It’s impressive to see how the Spanish industry has changed in such a short period and, as written before about the net adds battle, it’s amazing to see the huge difficulties that all the operators have to beat the incumbent, Telefónica, and inc...
Latecomers to mobile phone markets struggle.
There was an interesting article yesterday that took my attention in my headlines telecom RSS sources. Reuters, published a short benchmark of three mobile operators that tried to break their respective markets whilst being the last player to penet...
Why going green makes good business sense in telecom?
As explained in my previous post related to Green Telecom, energy consumption is one of the leading drivers of operating expenses for both fixed and mobile network operators. Reliable access to electricity is limited in many developing countries that...
Millicom should benefit from international bidding war
Interesting article coming from SeekingAlpha, an american publication where we are active contributors. As I’ve recently seen different asian readers in the blog, I thought the article might be interesting for those, like us, that look at the e...
Reflections on MNP: solutions for our clients’ fears.
Mobile Number portability (MNP) enables mobile subscribers to change their service providers or their location without having to change their existing phone numbers. This means that if the subscribers are not satisfied with the services of their serv...
Churn in telecom and the H1N1 Flu comparison
I clearly remember when my previous employer was referring to Telecom churn as a disease that should be treated as a Flu. As happens with today’s Flu A (H1N1) where most of the prevention messages come from the ability to detect and treat it correc...
Poaching strategy for competitor’s high value clients
I have recently been reading different acquisition strategies white papers as the topic has turned important for some of our clients. One of the definition I liked most was that that defined customer acquisition in the telecom industry as a process o...
How much should be paid for a new telecom license?
The French government has recently opened the bidding for the country’s fourth 3G license. Reserve price is set at 240 million EUR (about $339 million), and France Telecom said it will appeal against the license fee, because it’s too low compared...
Main growth levers in the Indian telecom mobile market
Telecom industry in India has undergone a revolution in the recent years. The country is ranked third worldwide in terms of having the largest telecommunication network, after China and USA. With the ongoing investments into infrastructure deployment...
Network infrastructure strategy workshop ideas for CXOs
Reading yesterday at the National that Etisalat’s Indian subsidiary has signed a US$2.2 billion (Dh7.34bn) infrastructure outsourcing deal to launch services without the need to build its own network, I wanted to use this opportunity to share our t...
Will Abertis win the spanish broadcasting & transport battle?
As you may know from some previous articles, mmC Group is heavily involved in broadcasting related assignments. We have been working with broadcasting operators in different European countries and we regularly follow the industry movements. One has r...
STC’s international expansion performance – Our opinion
Now that we’ve got our multientry visa for KSA, and considering the heavy telecom movements that are taking place in the country, it’s time to start publishing country specific articles related to the Saudi’s telecom environment. Following up t...
Critical success factors of a money-transfer service in telecom
Following up my intention of writing a brief essay related to money-transfer, and considering that we will be participating in the Mobile Money Summit in Barcelona next week, we wanted to share our view of the critical success factors for ensuring su...
Is Zain Africa worth US$12Bln?
This week, Vivendi, the French media conglomerate, has reportedly put in an offer to acquire Zain’s African mobile operations. Zain acquired the businesses in 2005 via the US$3.4 billion acquisition of Celtel. However, the firm is now reportedl...
Pricing optimization in Africa: the challenge!
I’ve just come from the middle east, visiting different markets where we’ve seen huge pricing competition battles among operators. One of my clients requested my point of view on pricing and how to fight in such a pricing war. Here it is....
Improving EBITDA through a cost reduction program.
We recently concluded an interesting and challenging assignment: reducing costs in a mobile telecom operator to improve EBITDA levels in more than 5 percentage points in a 6 months period. As said, extremelly challenging. Why? After more than 6 month...
Investors should take profits out of Vivo… really?
Following the success of my previous post related to vivo, and after our first article publication in SeekingAlpha, I’d like to share some additional insights related to the latest results published by vivo and their comparison with the rest ...
Mobile and GPS. Born to live together in the short term?
As a concept, there is nothing new about GPS. What has changed is the way the consumer uses information about location. The means by which they want to access information is also changing. Five years ago, GPS was only embedded in top-end vehicles, bu...
Network sharing to beat downturn? Not only.
Reading yesterday that the UAE phone company du may been in talks for a network-sharing arrangement with rival Etisalat to combat the downturn, and following on with the previous related post written by Teja, I wanted to share our vision and approach...
Unique view of the International networks that link the globe
Some of you are often asking me where do we get the data for our analyses. In most of the cases we count on our base and knowledge centre professionals. However, there are some external sources that “inspire” and help us with outstanding ...
Mobile in Africa: the land of opportunity
Africa and the Middle East will lead the world in terms of the percentage of mobile broadband subscriptions through 2012. This was the title of the recent broker report that I received today. Emerging Opportunity?: Several different information sourc...
What are operators doing with their excess of capacity?
I just read the Wall Street Journal’s article related to network capacity excess and I found a good subject to write a post as we have a nice credential and story to tell. The article (that also links with my previous post discussing about data MVN...
Vivo revenues grow 21.4% year-on-year: our opinion
Brazilian mobile operator Vivo Participacoes’ posted first quarter results last Friday. After hearing the investor’s call and downloading the 1Q results report, the highlights for this last quarter are: Net service revenue reached BRL 3...
Emerging markets - Mobile market review: Kenya 2009
I had recently the opportunity of speaking with the CEO of one of the mobile operators in Kenya and I realized how competitive the situation is turning even in the supposed “emerging markets”. Having worked in neighbour countries such Eth...
