Comments about cultural trends, mobile business, eCommerce and Internet developments

I’ve always been very skeptical about the success of femtocells with mobile operators as I just couldn’t see how MNOs will convince customer s to put up an “antenna” at home and maybe even pay for it. Basically all of this just just to “help” the operator to improve its coverage, which customer take for [...]

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Recently I had several discussions with telco operators and experts about the future of fixed broadband, the importance of wireless spectrum and the future of mobile broadband.
Let’s start with a consumer question instead of having the telco engineers doing their pitch: “How much bandwidth do I possibly need?” 3Mbs? 10Mbs? 50Mbs? 100Mbs? or more? for [...]

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Two weeks ago I was asked by a journalist ‘what’s the lowest price a MVNO can support?’ caused by the latest decline of MVNO’s (MObile Virtual Network Operators) per minute prices in Spain.
One and a half years ago when we launched simyo in Spain with 9ct/min with 15ct call setup fee (note: Spain requires per [...]

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Carlos,
your post http://consultantvalueadded.com/2009/10/26/unregistered-prepaid-clients-switch-off-no-business-sense/ made me post a comment, so objective achieved.
While agreeing with you that the law lacks common business sense, I don’t agree with some of your conclusions.
1. the law exists in all European countries, just in different degrees. Other European countries require registration of prepaid cards, but don’t require verification of DNI.
2. I [...]

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I was quite surprised today to read the headline of the deal between ebay and a private equity about the sale of the majority of skype. But I was even more surprised about the price they achieved, which values skype at $2.75billion. ebay paid including payouts to founders about $3.1bn, but had written down later [...]

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