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The burgeoning mobile content industry in Indonesia has been brought to its knees by a moratorium imposed the Indonesia Telecommunication Regulatory Body (BRTI) and the Ministry of Communication. The action has effectively stopped all sales of premium mobile content over the existing mobile networks and stems from a spate of consumer complaints, in excess of 9,000, over the suspicious and unaccountable loss of pre-paid credit balances. Mobile phone content providers called for better regulation following... -
In a blog picked up by TelecomAsia earlier this week, The Insider’s alter ego wrote about the lessons Apple’s departing CEO, Steve Jobs, might have taught the telecoms industry. It was full of the usual blah blah about the challenges Jobs and Apple caused the telcos and the disruptive nature of its products. He went on to say that it must have come as a shock that the iPhone, one mobile device, could have had such an impact on the telecoms industry as a whole. Make no mistake, it singularly... -
Fixed-line and mobile operators in Europe are facing quite a dilemma. On the one hand they are being pressured by European Commissioner Neelie Kroes to improve their network broadband speeds and capacity and that they are not investing enough to meet EU targets. On the other, their customers are wanting to use their internet connections for more and more bandwidth-hungry applications, especially video, and not have to pay extra for the privilege. Betwixt the two are the over the top (OTT) players... -
He’s finally done it! As reported on another TM Forum blog some months ago Rupert Murdoch’s Times newspaper in the UK is about to impose charges for those wishing to access its publication via the internet. Some reports have tagged this as ‘Rupert’s paywall’. From June this year, users will be asked to pay £1 per day, or £2 per week, to access the Times and the Sunday Times. From May the existing Times Online site , which merges content from the two newspapers, will be replaced by separate sites... -
It’s not even being delivered yet but I bet most of you are already sick of hearing about the Apple iPad. If you are a CSP (Communications Service Provider) you are probably dreading the extra load it is going to put on your mobile network and how you won’t necessarily see an incremental increase in revenue. Think again! Rather than sitting around navel-gazing operators should be looking at the greatest potential use of iPad and similar devices and work out how to get onto the curve early. I wrote...
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