We all know that a significant share of mobile operator revenue is equipment, not service, related. Even though equipment subsidisation and lock-in contracts rapidly become less popular, the reality is that if it wasn’t for subsidisation, reported equipment revenues would be even higher.
Our comparison of 80 reporting operators globally – all in mature markets – shows that the equipment revenue to total mobile revenue ratio can be as low as 5% and as high as 77% (click graph to enlarge): Continue reading Too much equipment and too little service revenue? Or vice versa? Check here. →
One year elapsed since the previous Wi-Fi conference in Europe and carriers’ deployment of Wi-Fi has never been faster.
The graph is fetched from our presentation in the Wi-Fi NOW conference in Amsterdam yesterday and shows the number of hotspots in green and homespots in amber for 45 reporting carriers globally (click to enlarge): Continue reading How carriers are using Wi-Fi across the world →
Analysis & Go-to-market, 2015
Developing a standardised dashboard format for the tracking of the business development of competing operators in four different country markets. Continue reading Competitive dashboard for four country markets →
Back from two mind-blowing days in Helsinki, we sense that nobody – organisers, speakers, participants – on beforehand actually had a notion of just how great the Nexterday North “anti-seminar” would turn out to be. Continue reading Save, borrow, be rewarded with, give away Gbytes. The new currency? →
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