Facebook Home: Hope or Hype?

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Gunish Chawla

A recent article in Fortune magazine cited Facebook Home, launched in April 2013, as the second coming of Facebook. If early reviews are any indication, it paints quite the opposite picture. About 66% of Google Play users have given Facebook … Read more

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Where’s the third umpire when you need one? Revisiting mobile spectrum in India

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Kamal Daswani and Aditi Asthana

Back in India, the second innings of the spectrum game is underway.  The first innings, and the ensuing scandal, garnered as many eyeballs as the nation’s favourite past time; cricket.  Now, with the stakes higher than ever, the indifferent response … Read more

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Content providers and Telcos: from parasitism to symbiosis

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Maxime Bayen and Mayssaa Issa

Radical changes are sometimes triggered by anecdotic events. The following could be one which holds major implications to the telecom industry. Last week, during a non-prime time interview on a second tier French TV channel, Stéphane Richard, the CEO of … Read more

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Devices and spectrum… 2 thorns in the side of LTE

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Christophe Meunier

The advent of LTE promises a quantum leap in mobile data speeds.  However, what the tagline does not state is that this increase in speed is accompanied by an increase in the speed of battery depletion, as higher speed requires … Read more

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The mobile advertising learning

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Vincent Stevens

1. Introduction “Mobile advertising really sucks.” So said Steve Jobs kicking off iAds in 20101. Indeed, monetizing mobile advertising has so far been a great challenge for advertising fueled companies (also read the Delta Partners blog “Will 2012 be the … Read more

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Mobile payment: the Square approach

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Rick Zhen

While telco and banking giants are struggling to come out with a technical standard for mobile payment, Square came from nowhere and quickly emerged as a potent player in the adjacent merchant payment processing market. The recent deal with Starbucks … Read more

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Mobile VoIP: operators and OTT players get down and dirty

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Anish Shivdasani

The shift to mobile VoIP is inevitable— operators should proactively commence the migration towards VoIP whilst managing the impact on traditional voice revenues Mobile VoIP arrives on the scene, much to the chagrin of operators Just as mobile operators thought … Read more

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More than 20% of Apple’s revenues from 2009 to 2011 may have come from telecom operators – boon soon to disappear?

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Mar Pages and Anna Arlorio

The Cupertino company received much admiration and praise when it breached the US$600 stock price and became the most valuable company in the world. However, the device manufacturer lost almost US$100 billion of its market cap when some US operators … Read more

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HTML5 – A second lifeline for operators in the mobile app ecosystem

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Adil Ahmad

Facebook’s recent launch of its App Center is a clear sign that the social networking giant is pulling no stops in its strategy to dominate the mobile web and fend off rivals Google and Apple. Hot on the heels of … Read more

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Telecoms in India? No thank you!

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Kamal Daswani

India is well known for many things, and one of them is cricket. In a busy Airtel mobile-phone shop in Delhi last month, you could have been easily tricked into thinking that cricket was no longer of interest to anyone … Read more

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