KPN buys debitel in Netherlands
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008Dutch incumbent operator KPN announced today that is has acquired debitel Nederland - the largest MVNO in the country - for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition will see KPN take over the MVNO’s approximately 300,000 postpaid and 230,000 prepaid customers, which are already served via its own network as debitel’s MVNO host. The operator described [...]
Cheapest SMS text service
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008CardBoardFish (www.cardboardfish.com), the low-cost SMS specialist, has developed a mobile application that dramatically reduces the cost of national and international texts from your phone: FishText. This bypasses the operator’s network and thus dramatically reduces SMS fees. FishText is free when texting other subscribers and costs from 1p for all other texts globally (over 200 countries).
Telstra drops CDMA and switches to 3G
Thursday, April 17th, 2008The Australian government has given Telstra the green light to shut down its CDMA network in favour of its new high-speed 3G network. According to The Australian newspaper, the ten year old network could be switched off within two weeks.
Brand loialty, a must for phone operators
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008Operators need to harness the potential of their subscriber data or risk becoming obsolete as new players in the communications market encourage superior brand loyalty - according to a wide-ranging global report launched today. The second part of this independent research, commissioned by Apertio, questioned over 70 global communications service providers (CSPs) on real-time subscriber [...]
