Qualcomm an inch closer to Europe
Qualcomm has been struggling to sell BREW handsets outside CDMA markets for some time now. Its first breakthrough came with operator O2’s...
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Operators: service-pipes or bit-pipes ?
In the last five years, tier-1 mobile network operators (MNOs) have looked for strategic inspiration in many places, albeit with limited...
Prioritize: Take over the world or Enjoy good margins
The end of each quarter is always an exciting period in the mobile business, the average selling price and market shares of the...
Customisation vs Personalisation: Setting the record straight
In the mobile industry, we often talk about customisation and personalisation interchangeably to describe how a service or a handset is...
Bang & Olufsen and ELLE pick up where Xelibri failed
Handsets for niche segments are making their presence felt, not only behind the mobile industry scenes, but also in the retail...
User interfaces and soft walled gardens of tomorrow
A couple of years ago, many in the mobile industry foresaw that mobile operators would control most of the device specification,...
Customised Design Manufacturers are Here
The Customised Design Manufacturer (CDM) is a new business model in the mobile handset industry that fills a very important market gap:...
The Twelve Stages of Handset Commercialisation
ARCchart‘s latest report is titled ‘The New Age of Handset Customisation: 2006-2011‘. The report analyses the new players, business...
The retail environment as a point of service discovery
Poor discovery and accessibility are two major obstables hindering the growth of data services. In simple English, the user often does...
A Peek into Radio Spectrum Economics
We all know that the radio spectrum is the electromagnetic spectrum which mobile operators use to offer wireless services. It’s...
The Industrial Design Platform
I ‘ve spent most of my time in the last three months researching and authoring a report on the future of handset customisation. I believe...
On-Device Portals: Here to Stay
I ‘ve written before about on-device portals (ODPs) – it’s essentially device software that delivers offline browsing, storefront and...
