Monthly Archives: December 2011

More than 50% of UK consumers are unhappy with mobile broadband

In recent news, it has been revealed that more than half of UK consumers are unhappy with mobile broadband speeds. Poor performance affects their mobile broadband experience and, if speeds aren’t as expected, user dissatisfaction results. According to Broadband Genie, … Continue reading

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African Mobile Data demand is set to soar

According to recent research by Informa, 20% of African Internet traffic will be carried over mobile networks by 2015. Apparently, the equivalent figure in the rest of the world is 3%. This is going to place increasing strain on local … Continue reading

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IQPC Data Offloading Strategies – How MNOs Can Leverage Offloading with Device-Level Software

The recent IQPC Data Offloading Strategies event in Barcelona brought together key stakeholders from the mobile industry for several days of intense debate and discussion. It appears that data offload from mobile networks onto WiFi may not be the desired … Continue reading

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The end of all you can eat in America

Last month, US mobile operator Sprint announced that it would stop offering unlimited access to 4G data, which used to be bundled with its 3G plans. And, what’s more, the practice of “grandfathering” a plan for existing subscribers is not … Continue reading

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Application Based Charging Needs On Device Software

In a recent post, industry analyst Dean Bubley commented on the vision of application based charging. In his view, this was unlikely to be feasible without “sophisticated on-device software hooked into the policy engine”. A number of reasons were provided … Continue reading

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