Rachael Robinson (Research Analyst) joined the Analysys Mason Custom Research team in October 2005. She specialises in desk research, financial analysis and executive interviewing. Before joining Analysys Mason, Rachael worked as a Research Analyst at Cambridge Investment Research and as an Intern at Lehman Brothers Investment Bank. She has a degree in Geography from Cambridge University.
Earlier this month Sprint Nextel, the third largest US mobile operator (by subscribers), announced that it would be making mobile WiMAX available to over 100 million people in the USA by 2008. WiMAX is a wireless broadband technology that is based on the IEEE 802.16 family of standards. Originally designed as a last-mile fixed wireless broadband access technology, revision...
At the beginning of June 2006, 3G mobile operator 3 Italia introduced a flat-rate data tariff, the first to be introduced to the consumer market in Italy. The service will be available to customers for a charge of either EUR1 per day or EUR9 per month until 1 September 2006, rising to EUR2 per day or EUR15 per month thereafter. Although the service offers unlimited browsing, there is a usage cap of 10MB per day.
In March this year, AT&T announced that it was to buy Bell South for USD67 billion. This followed last November's acquisition of AT&T by SBC, which led to SBC's rebranding as AT&T. In the consolidated US environment, Verizon is the only other significant player in the fixed telco space but both of the big fixed carriers face growing competition from other sources.
Oracle Corp. announced on 12 April 2006 its intention to acquire Portal Software, a billing and revenue-management software provider for the communications and media sectors. The move follows Oracle's other recent acquisitions including...
