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April 2011

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A Few of the Ways Mobile Networks can be Monetized: Usage, Tiered Pricing and Optimization

April 28, 2011

In my last blog, I talked about how monetizing mobile networks is a complex process that involves quite a few different strategies.  In this blog, I’m going explain more what I mean by:

  • Increasing Usage, and revenue from the usage, of the mobile network
  • Tiered Pricing so that heavy users pay for their usage
  • Optimization of the existing network 

Usage

As we all know, more and more subscribers worldwide are coming to the mobile networks, and they are using the mobile networks with increasing frequency.  According to the Cisco Virtual Network published this past February, mobile traffic is expected to grow at almost 100% CAGR through 2015.  

Monetizing Mobile Networks: It's Not as Easy as it Sounds

April 26, 2011

The amount of money spent on mobile spectrum by mobile service providers is enormous. In 2000, European mobile service providers spent $129 billion on 3G licenses, and in 2010 mobile service providers in India alone spent a staggering $14.5 billion on these licenses.  Now, LTE/4G licenses are starting to be awarded.  In Germany in 2010, the spectrum for LTE/4G cost $5.5 billion. 

Everyone on the Planet has a Mobile Phone? Possibly. Italy has an Insight.

April 19, 2011

When I read analyst reports, and I tend to read a lot of them (even when I’m not trying to get to sleep), I keep seeing that at some point in the near future, mobile phone / connected device penetration will surpass the amount of people on the planet.  That’s a lot of devices. What’s behind that?

When is the Bus Coming and How Does that Relate to Innovation?

April 12, 2011

When I travel into New York City, I typically take the bus.  Since I don’t memorize the schedule, I go online to get it and show up around the time it’s scheduled to come to my stop.  The last time I went to New York though, the bus was late.  And I was getting nervous I was going to miss my meeting. 

State of Natural Speech and Italy

April 5, 2011

Last week, I had the opportunity to attend and speak at InteractiveMedia’s Speech Workshop in Rome.  Speech recognition has become much more mainstream and accepted in the past 5 years, due mainly to the industry making huge strides in getting speech recognition to work, and also frankly to it being more ubiquitous, such as in cars, so people are more comfortable with it. 

While I used to be very embedded in the speech scene, I haven’t been lately. 

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