Benchmarks, 2015 
For the third consecutive year: Comprehensive business benchmark including more than 500 KPIs covering revenue, OPEX, CAPEX, headcount productivity, subscriptions & channels, performance, load, quality and innovation & growth – for 33 functions within a mobile operator, within a fixed/cable operator and/or within an integrated operator – respectively. Continue reading Nordic operator benchmark 2015
Analysis & Go-to-market, 2015
Preparing analysis of the commercial and financial development for competing operators – aligning it with their respective propositions and positioning. Focusing on the operators in the market in question – but supplementing it with analysis of other international markets relevant to take learning from and apply in a local context. Continue reading Operator proposition & positioning analysis and workshops
Analysis & Go-to-market, 2015
Providing a global solutions provider with a country-per-country OPEX and CAPEX breakdown comparison between all major operators in seven large countries – based on combining operator reported figures, regulatory data, market data and operators’ communicated plans & targets with tefficient‘s understanding of what is industry typical given market position and strategy.
Not many operators in Europe report the number of 4G subscribers, but in this graph we have collected those who have. We recalculated end of March 2015 figures into penetration figures of the total SIM base. Continue reading 4G penetration top 21 of Europe
Since T-Mobile’s plans for Data Stash were made public in December last year, we have looked forward to T-Mobile’s reporting of Q1 results – since we hoped to see the first indications of if rollover data actually helps customer retention. Continue reading T-Mobile’s churn lowest ever – following introduction of Data Stash
Liberty Global has through a number of major acquisitions – Virgin Media in the UK and Ziggo in the Netherlands being the latest – expanded its European cable footprint. Continue reading Liberty Global buys a mobile operator. What does it mean for Europe?
We have previously addressed the challenge to translate high population coverage into customer experience in 4G LTE.
The graph below shows the difference (in percentage points) between operator reported population coverage for the end of 2014 and the actual time 4G customers could indeed be on 4G – according to OpenSignal’s crowdsourced data for Q1 2015 (gathered November 2014-January 2015). Continue reading 4G population coverage: Marketing vs. reality
After 14 years, BT is back into consumer mobile. The long-rumoured launch of BT Mobile happened today. Continue reading BT Mobile: Surprisingly disruptive
Consumers often think of carriers being somewhat stuffy and dusty, being slow to give customers flexibility and big at small print. But there are great exceptions to the rule with T-Mobile in the US, Free in France and Tele2 in Sweden, and we believe the next two years will see some further fun, entertaining and disruptive carrier offerings on the market. Continue reading Freedom to stay – The power of 40000 Tweets
We’ve been awaiting Telenor’s official comments to OpenSignal’s new crowdsourced 4G coverage and speed test, but since Telenor hasn’t yet commented it we try to interpret the Norwegian results ourselves.
Continue reading If you sell Mbytes, why slow your customers down?