Tag Archives: 3G
Mobile Broadband in Sweden – Still Growing
Last year, I wrote about the explosive growth of mobile broadband in Sweden. According to the National Post and Telecom Agency (PTS), which publishes an annual report on the state of the Swedish Telecommunications Market, the number of mobile subscriptions via … Continue reading
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Is Mobile Broadband Profitable?
The consensus opinion is certainly that mobile broadband is not a profitable business (yet) in Western Europe (especially in countries like UK) where mobile broadband prices are trending lower than fixed broadband prices. I have always wanted to do a … Continue reading
Filed under fixed broadband, mobile broadband
Sony’s New Embedded 3G ‘NetBook’
I guess it was just a matter of time before Sony introduced its ‘netbook’ offering – though it insists that its new Sony Vaio P is not a netbook. Walter Mossberg reviews it on the Journal: I love the look … Continue reading
Filed under HSPA, mobile broadband, netbooks
3G Embedded Netbooks – Killer Product?
The relative success of Asus Eee PC has created a new product category – netbooks, also called Mobile Internet Devices (MID) or Ultra-Low Cost PCs (ULPCs). Never to shy away from new product hype, ABI research has promptly come out with a … Continue reading
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Can Mobile Operators Sell Laptops?
At the recent Citigroup Technology Conference, Dell’s CEO, Michael Dell indicated that the strategy for selling the company’s ‘netbooks’ would be via the wireless network operators – the former would be subsidized to consumers along with 3G service. Actually, this … Continue reading
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Deeper Dive into Mobile Broadband Growth in Austria
Austria shows that mobile broadband can be a significant threat to the old DSL-fixed line business. As shown in the Figure, the last three quarters for Mobilkom Austria have witnessed mobile broadband subscriptions exceed DSL subscriptions, thanks to a significant … Continue reading
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Can Mobile Broadband Bite into Fixed Broadband?
Nielsen Mobile, a service of The Nielsen Company, reported that there were more than 13 million wireless data card users in the US as of Q2 2008. The interesting piece of information buried in the press release is that as … Continue reading
Filed under HSPA, mobile broadband
HSPA subscriber numbers – Reality Overtakes Hype
The GSMA, the global trade group for the mobile industry, releases a quarterly report on the growth (or lack of growth) of GSM, GPRS/EDGE, W-CDMA and HSPA subscribers, terminals and operators. In the latest report (August 2008), it announced that … Continue reading
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