In Today's Issue: 3G iPhones don't work; developers think Google is being evil; Sun open-sources more stuff; China Unicom inflates the Chinese 3G bubble; UK MNOs not so good at ISPing; public doesn't want Be CCTV after all; Orange UK gives away Asus EEEs, makes money; UK 2.5GHz is with [...]

Last month, Qualcomm purchased at auction 40MHz of spectrum (1452-1492 MHz, known as 'The L-Band') for £8.3m ($16m). Since then there has much speculation about Qualcomm's motives and the services that they will deploy, focussing upon Mobile TV. The answer tells us a lot about how new platforms and intermediaries [...]

NGMN.org ran a half-day conference at CeBIT on mobile broadband. The presentations - from Vodafone, LG, Nokia Siemens, and Texas Instruments - can be downloaded here…but Hamid Akhavan's, CEO at T-Mobile International, seems to have been withdrawn from the site now. We managed to grab it before it was. The [...]

150 representatives from across the global mobile marketing value chain gathered for a brainstorm at The CMO [Chief Marketing Officers] Forum at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona two and a bit weeks ago. The focus was "Mobile as a True Marketing Channel - Realising the Opportunity". Lots of others [...]

In Today's Issue:: Flat-rate menaces US cellcos, mobile voice volume booms, COLT feels the pain, Voda/Orange mast-share, OFCOM after the fibre, mobile filth disappoints, DVD Jon turns on mobiles, Pakistan breaks the Internet, GSM crypto cracked, BlackBerry down again, Facebook loses traffic, microwave spectrum in demand, France resists Reding, pretty [...]

As you may have read in our news post this week, as well as elsewhere, Sprint-Nextel is in deep trouble. Since this is a story that has been well-covered in the industry press, we'll just briefly recap the main points, but dig deeper into the business model aspects. The basic [...]

This year, we're focusing on seven themes in the industry; Investment and Market Valuations, Disruptive Threats, Two-Sided Business Models (a key theme in the forthcoming Platforms report), Adjacent Markets, Core Products and End-User Needs, and of course Regulation. So these news posts will be centred around these concerns. Despite everything, [...]

Telco 2.0 Strategy Structural separation? We don't need no stinkin' separation! So says Belgacom… Telco 2.0 Comment: They built a VDSL network, and now their competitors want to play. Belgacom of course claims they took the risk and therefore should reap the rewards; but the biggest competitor is the company [...]

We've been doing some rummaging around Orange UK's latest figures on data and application usage. They put a positive spin on them, of course, but here's our take: Good news: SMS, as expected, is delivering the goods, but the hidden gem is mobile access. The numbers of people using mobile [...]

In Today's Issue: Asia goes crazy for network sharing, plastic fibre, fixed-line videocalls (yes, really), Opera Mini conquers all, make a widget and win a Nokia N95, UMA gadget with 2GB storage, data centre heists, iFlop, BlackBerry WiFi on a plane, Nokia threatens UGC boom, new torrent tracker tech terror, [...]

This is the first in a new series from Telco 2.0 looking at commercial developments in important Markets. We start with Fixed Broadband in the UK because it is consolidating fast and the players are starting to differentiate their bundles through Value Added Services. In the future, we will be [...]

In this edition of Telco 2.0's 'Hot News' : Viviane Reding wants the power; The iPhone fails to explode in Europe; Who needs Google Android when we've got LiMo?; TD-SCDMA gadgets, at last; T-Mobile Shadow under test; 900MHz 3G is here; Sprint and Clearwire fall out; Helio burns yet more [...]