Posts Tagged ‘Mobile World Congress’

Who’s going to get left behind? (Live from MWC 2012)

BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK The cloud might be opening up new revenue opportunities for service providers, but those who don’t re-invent themselves will be left behind, warned John Chambers, CEO of Cisco in a keynote address on the second day of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. And in this new, hyperconnected, cloudy world, video will be [...]

Spot the difference… (LIVE from Mobile World Congress 2012)

 BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK While there are huge differences between developed and emerging markets, the complaints of CEOs from leading service providers in emerging markets are uncannily similar to those of their colleagues in the developed world.  On the second day of Mobile World Congress 2012 here in Barcelona, the heads of Telefónica Latin America, VimpelCom and [...]

LIVE from Mobile World Congress: What operators are chanting these days…

BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK While “location, location, location” might be the real estate agent’s mantra, for service providers it’s all about “spectrum, spectrum, spectrum“. At the first keynote session of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, both Vittorio Colao, Vodafone’s CEO and Ralph de la Vega, CEO of AT&T Mobility insisted that if regulators don’t release more [...]

Value-based pricing relieves the tablet data headache

BLOGGER: GUY HILTON Mobile World Congress saw its fair share of launch announcements in the tablet area and now with the imminent iPad 2 launch on Wednesday, the tablet revolution is truly on its way. Rather than talk about the various new features of each and every one of these tablets, I want to focus [...]

Connectivity isn’t enough – where’s the VALUE?

BLOGGER: YOAV SNIR  Is mobile communications now all about the connected world? Well, if you attended last week’s Mobile World Congress, you would think so. There were certainly enough connected devices around, with almost every original equipment manufacturer – from phone manufacturers to consumer electronic giants – apparently about to launch a tablet. Everyone else [...]

Is it all about the app?

By Stephen Krajewski Back at Mobile World Congress again after a two-year break, and it was easy to notice a dramatic change in the event’s focus compared to previous years: everything now seemed to be about putting anything you could possibly think of on a mobile device. Serious apps, silly apps, and those apps “you never [...]