September 28th, 2011 — Issue 29 October 2011
In January 2009, when Cisco released its first Visual Networking Index, a forecast of data traffic in mobile networks, the first reaction from the market was incredulity.
Cisco was projecting that, based on traffic observed over the last five years, mobile data traffic was to double every year. Even more remarkable, video, then a mere 20 per cent of the overall traffic would rise and account up to 64 per cent of the traffic by 2013.
June 19th, 2011 — Issue 27 June 2011
The Internet is becoming more and more app centric as smartphone penetration and mobile computing are on the rise. This leads organisations to play with the idea of creating their own infrastructure in order to leverage on the opportunities and high demand for applications. There is a huge availability of app stores ranging from different mobile operating systems, netbook apps, HTML5 apps, TV apps, to stores specialising in selling apps for a distinct industry. There seems to be enough room for businesses to tap into this market. Most of the app stores are operated by the platform manufacturers; however, operators that are even closer to the consumer need to open their own versions of stores in order to create wider adaptation of mobile applications.
Alexander Rauser is CEO of Prototype Interactive
April 30th, 2011 — Issue 25 April 2011
It is no surprise that healthcare professionals are turning to wireless technology to significantly improve healthcare practices around the world. There are great challenges faced by national healthcare systems in terms of prevention and efficient provisioning of medical care to an ageing population with growing incidence of chronic diseases
With the patient’s prior consent, M2M solutions enable mobile health devices to remotely monitor, connect and communicate the patient’s health status to a medical specialist over the air
February 20th, 2011 — Issue 23 January/February 2011
Today, new telecom technologies, globalisation, increased competition, and increased customer mobility have radically changed ways people communicate. Telecom operators around the world are in a race to offer customers a multiplicity of converging services/products at equally attractive and competitive prices. Today, many operators, especially incumbents, are struggling to fight new entrants, to win new customers, to reduce customer churn, and to protect their dramatically eroded profits (declining revenues versus increasing marketing and customer management expenses). Today, operators are on average losing 8-10 per cent of their customers each year. To minimise their losses of revenue and/or explore new revenue opportunities, telecom operators have to re-think their marketing and customer retention strategies and practices.
Mohamed Jamoussi is a senior advisor for Saudi Telecom (STC)
February 9th, 2011 — Issue 23 January/February 2011
Francesco Burelli, principal of Value Partners in London and Zoran Vasiljev, managing director of Value Partners (MEA), offer their insight into the opportunities that exist in the mobile payments sphere
Zoran Vasiljev, managing director of Value Partners (MEA)
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