Operators

JioPhone: Accelerating India to Cross The 4G Chasm

The most disruptive 4G operator in India Jio, part of Reliance Industries, announced a category of 4G Feature Phone “JioPhone” which is essentially basic feature phone on steroids today on July 21 at the company’s Annual General Meeting…

China Mobile : 500 Million LTE Subs :: A Unique Milestone

Since the first rollout of LTE networks at the end of last decade, the global LTE subscriptions or connections over the last seven years has swelled to almost 1.8 Billion level but still contributing to just one-fourth of the…

Surprise! Feature Phones to Drive the Next Wave of LTE Growth

More than half a billion LTE capable phones in a feature phone form-factor will be shipped globally over the course of five years. Local kings (mobile phone brands) in many feature phone centric markets as well as Operators…

Three major industry trends identified at MWC Shanghai 2016

The Mobile World Congress Shanghai (MWCS), is reckoned to be Asia’s largest and most influential mobile industry event. The 2016 event took place from June 29th to July 1st at the Shanghai New International Expo Center (SNIEC)…

Connected Cars: A Service Providers Opportunity

The Automotive Industry is moving towards an era where it will rely on Telecom companies for seamless data services for vehicles. Creating an opportunity for mobile operators in connected cars ecosystem. It is expected that more than 75% of the…

Q2 2015: Verizon :: AOL Acquisition Timely As LTE Base Broadens

One of the top two US operators, Verizon announced its results today seeing some interesting growth in a what used to be a traditionally slow quarter. Furthermore, Verizon seemed to be immune from a strong and aggressive…

China Mobile: 4G Leapfrogging 3G Growth By a Margin

• China Mobile is the world’s largest mobile operator with more than 816 million mobile subscribers almost bigger than all subscribers in USA+Japan+Korea+UK+Germany combined.
• This is the scale China Mobile possesses…

On Sale Now: Tesco Mobile

Tesco is putting its share of MVNO Tesco Mobile up for sale. Tesco Mobile is the UK’s largest Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) with around 4 million subscriptions or 4% of UK subscription base. It is a 50:50 JV between Tesco — the UK’s #1 supermarket chain, and mobile operator…