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    EE, the price of speed and indoor hypocrisy

    Perhaps EE knew things weren’t going to go as smoothly as it had hoped when, on Monday, its Twitter feed, in reply to a...

    Giving a true picture of global mobile penetration

    Wireless Intelligence, the research arm of the GSMA, has carried out research that shows the number of unique connected mobile users globally, rather than...

    APIs, APIs, the greatest secrets operators possess

    Telefonica and Telenor got a lot of coverage this week for their announcement that they are working to join Telenor's direct to bill API with the current payment API available through Telefonica's BlueVia portal.

    The announcement means that Telefonica and Telenor will offer the same payment API to anyone who wants to take advantage of carrier billing. That could be the big sites they mentioned, Facebook, Google, Blackberry, but also other retailers and online stores. A supermarket with an online store, say, could offer users the option to pay for an item direct to their mobile bill. 

    4G in our time

    So have our lasting truce. Yes, this week, an embattled public servant emerged from tense negotiations with warring parties waving a piece of paper,...

    Get set for Het Net bet

    It was a week when Mobile Europe gave you insight into the plans and strategies of O2, Virgin Media, EE, Deutsche Telekom, and SFR,...

    Our weekly gallery of misery

    If you think the debate about how operators can avoid becoming “dumb pipes” is some sort of academic exercise, then this week would have...

    EE’s weird brand hierarchy

    Four years ago, Qualcomm held the first of its Innovation Qualcomm events.It was a relatively small scale event. I can’t remember exact numbers but...

    Those were the days, my friend…

    Well, what a week for mobile devices that was, yes, it was certainly packed with crucial mobile device launches, forecasts and rumours. But let's...

    Better late than…

    Some time after they said they would, mobile operators are starting to sneak out RCS-e services under the joyn brand. Following Telefonica and Vodafone...

    To medal, or not to medal?

    This week, we have finally awarded the medals in Mobile Europe's PR Olympics. After this, no more Olympics, we promise (apart from the Paralympics,...

    Inspire a Fourth Generation

    Apps that play nicely on the network may get special treatment and promotion from operators, who in turn can tune their network to play...

    So far, so good – let’s hope for a disaster soon

    You could hear the disappointment from here. A hundred press releases being shredded, a thousand articles ready to “click to publish” left languishing on...

    Not doom and gloom, only gloom

    We’re back in the quarterly results cycle. Here’s a brief catch up on this week’s network-side announcements.Ericsson had a quarterly profit of SEK 3.3...

    The ins and outs of an outage

    So the word outage was on everyone’s lips this week, not least at Mobile Europe where a malware exploit of our webhost’s platform disabled...

    Nobody’s perfect

    The question is constantly asked: if telcos are to offset or manage slowing growth, or decreases, in revenues from traditional voice and messaging, how...