Investing to maintain a competitive MCA portfolio is significantly more important to MNOs than direct revenue suggests.
We recently assisted UK regulator Postcomm investigate the regulated costs and prices of Royal Mail’s letter services, in support of a major new consultation into the future regulation of the UK mail market following full market opening.
Mobile operators in emerging markets should continue to see revenue growth but need to optimise existing revenue sources, expand their coverage into profitable areas and strive to reduce costs.
To combine public sector network initiatives with rollout of superfast broadband there are a number of critical factors to be addressed relating to public sector procurement, regulation and legislation in the competitive telecoms market and State aid.
While TETRA is the mature standard for mission-critical networks, there are a number of choices for business-critical users migrating to digital mobile radio. A range of standards – including DMR and TETRA – are now competing for this middle ground.
The whole sector is struggling in an economic climate that has caused ICT turnover to decline at a faster pace than GDP.
Mark Gentle, Partner & Transport Practice Head at Analysys Mason discusses eCall - the European Commission’s initiative to save lives on the roads of Europe by using telemetry.
When the ETSI TETRA standard was published, pundits predicted that UMTS would replace it as the technology of choice for public safety within a few years. Fifteen years later, it is still going strong and appears to have a bright future.
The EC’s May 2009 recommendation on the treatment of voice termination states that rates should be based on an efficient operator bottom-up cost model with a pure LRIC approach.
