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Featured Report
Rethinking MVNO and MVNE Economics: The Future of Virtual Models
Authors: Guy Zibi, Research Director; Ozgur Aytar, Research Manager
The MVNO business has never been as good an opportunity as the initial hype would have had you believe, but in our view, it is not as hopless as the negative publicity of the past year suggests.
The failures of Mobile ESPN and Amp′d Mobile in the US and scores of others in Europe have raised some fresh questions about the viability of the MVNO business model. All these failures notwithstanding, Pyramid Research argues in its new report, Rethinking MVNO and MVNE Economics: the Future of Mobile Virtual Models, that it would be hasty to brand MVNOs a failure. Read the full article
Pyramid Prediction: MVNO models can be made to work, and there are MVNOs with proven track records of success. Despite market sentiment having swung sharply against MVNOs following a number of high-profile setbacks, Pyramid Research expects virtual operators to have close to 150m subscribers by 2012, for nearly $30bn in services revenue. Read the full article
With the purchase of this report, you are invited to participate in a conference call with the report authors on September 12, 2007 at 11:00 a.m. US EST.
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Pyramid Premium Analysis
eMobile, a New Player in the Japanese Market, Makes Business out of Business
Having entered the Japanese market only in March, mobile network operator eMobile has announced that it had 60,200 subscribers at the end of June 2007. As a subsidiary of eAccess, a major Internet provider in Japan for fixed services, eMobile started offering mobile broadband services in May 2007. Read the full article
Pyramid Prediction: Banking on the expectation that data revenue will grow while voice revenue declines, in addition to the belief that Japan’s penetration rate will be driven up by corporate subscriptions, eMobile is targeting business clients.
Read the full article
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Pyramid Research Product Updates:
Research Reports:
Rethinking MVNO and MVNE Economics
The Global Mobile Capex Index
Can Video on Demand Save IPTV?
Country Intelligence Reports:
Czech-Republic Intelligence Report
Spain Intelligence Report
Perspectives:
Sprint and Clearwire: a Dash for an Unclear WiMAX Future
New Mobile Players in Panama Will Bring More Competition and Lower Prices
Femtocell Activity Moves Up a Notch as Lab Trials Begin
Forecasts:
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Nortel readies for mobile WiMAX push with UK partnership
Nortel Networks Corp has announced a cross-market collaboration with UK-based wireless broadband operator, Urban WiMAX, ostensibly to demonstrate the viability of mobile WiMAX services and applications ahead of a planned auction of 2.5-2.7GHz spectrum next year. More likely, however, Nortel is simply taking proactive steps to secure its share of the nascent WiMAX market while continuing to develop its WiMAX product range.
Read the full article in ITI Digest
SkyLink and Alcatel-Lucent launch high-speed mobile broadband network in Volgograd
SkyLink and Alcatel-Lucent have announced the deployment of an Alcatel-Lucent-supplied, 3G CDMA2000 1Ñ…EV-DO network that will support mobile high-speed data services at speeds of up to 2.4Mbit/s in Volgograd, Russia. With this deployment, ZAO Volgograd Cellular Communications, a SkyLink subsidiary that will operate the new network, will be able to transform its service offerings, providing voice and data services, including mobile video, mobile office solutions and more, to local and roaming subscribers.
Read the full article in ITI Digest
Nextel and América Móvil awarded mobile licences in Peru
ProInversión, Peru's state agency for promoting private investment, has announced that Claro Perú, a subsidiary of America Móvil SAB de CV, and digital trunking operator, Nextel Perú, a subsidiary of NII Holdings Inc, have won mobile concession licences.
Read the full article in ITI Digest
China Unicom to bid for CDMA licence in Hong Kong
China United Telecommunications (China Unicom) plans to bid for a 3G mobile licence based on CDMA2000 1xEV-DO technology in Hong Kong, according to a report by the China Business News , quoting China Unicom’s Vice President, Li Zhengmao. Read the full article in ITI Digest
Verizon Wireless agrees to acquire Rural Cellular Corporation
In a move to expand its wireless service coverage in rural markets, Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group plc, has entered into an agreement to acquire Rural Cellular Corporation (RCC) for approximately US$2.67 billion in cash and assumed debt.
Read the full article in ITI Digest
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