New mobile service provider justifies entrance to market
Latest Australian mobile entrant Amaysim claims there is room for the company in the crowded mobile service provider market.
Latest Australian mobile entrant Amaysim claims there is room for the company in the crowded mobile service provider market.
SMB telco, engin (ASX:ENG), has reported a major turnaround in its business in the 2010 financial year, notching up a record EBITDA of $0.7 million off revenues of close to $20 million.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has released details on the public hearings it will be holding into the state of complaints-handling in the Australian telecommunications sector.
Despite optimism for global telco revenues to bounce back in 2010, Australian telcos will experience only minimal growth, predicts one analyst firm.
One of Telstra's main unions has accused the telco of listening in on its conference calls with unionised staff in an attempt to pick up intelligence on its industrial action and bargaining plans.
Australian telcos have been warned that data download plans being offered with new iPads can be easily rorted, leaving them exposed to fraud.
Mobile operators say that they are open to accepting a range of wireless devices on their networks as well as using new models for charging people for services to those devices, based on experiences with the Kindle and the iPad, but they will still want a degree of control over their networks.
The National Broadband Network Company (NBNCo) has poured cold water on reports it will contact the employers of prospect executives who attempt to jump ship from other telecommunications providers.
Impending changes to the rules governing premium SMS services have the potential to significantly impact revenues of Australian telcos and their service partners, according to one analyst firm.
Italy's telecom sector Wednesday was reeling from the news that two of its biggest operators were caught up in a massive fraud allegedly orchestrated by members of the Calabrian Mafia, considered the most powerful and dangerous of the country's organized crime groups.
When Google chief executive Eric Schmidt took the stage at Mobile World Congress, it seemed that many of his remarks were meant to placate the mobile phone industry. And for good reason: Over the last year, Google has become a mobile powerhouse -- this was Schmidt's first keynote in Barcelona, after all - that, in many ways, competes with wireless service providers. The past year has seen a proliferation of Android phones and the debut of powerful mobile apps such as Google Voice and Maps Navigation. It's a good thing in that Google's driving sales, but it's also a cause for concern. Here are five reasons mobile telcos should be worried about Google:
Mobile services company MOKO.mobi Limited (ASX:MKB) has flagged that it is no longer pursuing “a particularly significant corporate transaction.”
Verizon wasted no time gleefully mocking AT&T after the rival carrier dropped its lawsuit challenging the legitimacy of Verizon's "There's a Map for That" ads.
The outage of a computer system used by airline pilots to file flight plans in the U.S will likely prompt a closer look at a US$2.4 billion telecommunications system that has grappled with numerous problems in the past.
Separation is a process all telecommunications providers — not just Telstra — will have to come to terms with sooner or later, according to Ovum research director, David Kennedy. Speaking to Computerworld ahead of the research firm’s executive workshop on convergent telecoms, commercial and regulatory challenges in Melbourne, Kennedy said that increasing competition, the rise of the NBN, and the commoditisation of networks were all contributing to a future in which telcos would become increasingly detached from their own networks.