This case study details how Telstra created competitive advantage in the tightly contested Australian pre-paid mobile market. Telstra is Australia's largest Telecommunications service provider with revenue of AUD24.98 billion and EBITDA of AUD10.15 billion (FY2011 company accounts). A profitable company with healthy margins, Telstra provides a comprehensive range of services to both consumer and business markets. These include local/national/international voice and data services, IT services, internet services, wholesale, media, online and mobile communications.
Mobile networks are expanding rapidly in Africa. Some operators have found that in order to keep up the expansion rate and at the same time get high quality installations, a containerised solution is the most favourable alternative. Flexenclosure has won an important tender in Ghana, and the operator, MTN, is enthusiastic about quality and workmanship.
This E-site® case study is based on information from a Flexenclosure Renewable Energy site solution in Africa.
In June of 2010 Acision commissioned independent market research agency, YouGov to undertake a detailed survey regarding consumer perception of mobile broadband in the UK. The research covered key aspects such as Quality of Experience, customer satisfaction, video quality and consumer acceptance and awareness of possible VAS and fairness policies. The commissioned research was based on the same panel as YouGov´s ‘Dongle Tracker’, which has been providing quarterly trends in mobile broadband for the past two years. This report provides a detailed description of the outcomes of both sets of research, providing a longer term trend analysis of broadband in the UK as well as a detailed snapshot of the state of mobile broadband in June of 2010.
For mobile operators, text messaging is the only truly successful data application with volumes increasing year on year. However, ongoing price erosion has caused increased pressure on margins. Ever since the mobile industry recognised this, it has been frantically searching for revenue growth opportunities in new services. However Ovum concludes1 that no other single service has been able to get even close to the text messaging revenues of today. Even in 2009, 80% of worldwide messaging revenues will be generated by SMS.
Inala is a South African company with 15 years of experience in providing system integrated solutions to the telecommunications sectors of global emerging markets.
A European operator has developed mobile services dedicated to the supply chain & freight industry requiring ultra fast and reliable data transfer.
One of Astellia’s customers, a major Middle Eastern operator group with operations in the Middle East, Africa and Europe was facing the challenge of providing consistently high Quality of Service across its 20 networks.
When launching new 2,5G / 3G / 3G+ networks, providing fast data access and vibrant multimedia content is critical in turning costly investments into a successful venture.
With the tremendous expansion of multimedia smartphones and the surge in data services, operators are today faced with the challenge of optimising both their 2.5 and 3G networks.