Features
Mobile Instant Messaging - Not an instant success
The struggle for market leadership and revenues in mobile instant messaging has lead operators down different paths, finds Tony Dennis
Mobile TV regulation - No way to regulate
Regulatory attempts to standardise around DVB-H are unnecessary and may prove harmful to the market regulators are trying to foster, argues Parks Associates' Director of Research, John Barrett
Location Based Services - WiFi to the LBS rescue?
Can adding WiFi location to GPS fill in the missing piece in the puzzle of LBS commercialisation, Keith Dyer asks?
Mobile Broadcast TV - Trust is key
With regulators beginning to shape the overall market conditions, standardisa-tion and technical work continues around the issue of rights access
Mobile Payments - Trust is key
Cross-industry co-operation, standards development and business models are all important, but consumer trust remains the key
Core Networks - Back on track?
Can the IMS, along with Advanced TCA, enhance converged service delivery after all? Is that why it is generating renewed interest from operators?
Core Networks - A planned migration?
Operators need to look to the bigger picture as they migrate their core networks to IP - but face short term technical and business challenges
Music strategies - To stream or to own?
Mobile music has punched above its weight on operator portals, but is the next wave going to take consumers away from the need to download music, to accepting an on demand streaming mode?