Vodafone

Last week I was interviewed for a forthcoming report on mobile network sharing and it prompted me to catch up on the latest 3GPP developments in this area. As network sharing becomes widespread in the mobile industry, a range of new capabilities are under development in 3GPP. These will provide network operators with much greater… Read more

Last month I welcomed the fact that Ofcom had expedited the introduction of 4G in the UK by allowing Everything Everywhere to launch LTE services in advance of the UK’s forthcoming auction of 4G spectrum. Today, Everything Everywhere revealed its 4G plans in more detail. Under its new brand of “EE” it will offer LTE services… Read more

While the announcement has been some time coming, I’m delighted to see that the commercial realities of 4G LTE investment have caused O2 and Vodafone to make a very wise partnership decision. Vodafone and O2 have announced that they will pool their networks of radio masts and antennas, which will accelerate their roll-out of 4G… Read more

The forthcoming auction of 800MHz and 2.6GHz spectrum, and the associated licence conditions, will have a profound impact on the mobile industry in the UK. In its latest consultation and proposals, Ofcom highlights that the auction is “likely to be the last significant opportunity to obtain prime mobile spectrum for many years” and that the… Read more

Now that LTE deployment is increasing, significant differences are emerging in the marketing approaches being followed by mobile network operators. At one extreme, Vodafone Germany is targeting LTE at competing with fixed broadband services. LTE provides mobile network operators with the ability to support significantly higher usage than possible with HSPA networks, by reducing the… Read more

Despite increases in the penetration of smartphones discussed in a previous post, the outlook for mobile network operators remains challenging.  My analysis of the latest data from Vodafone shows that the combination of intense price competition and price regulation is causing mobile voice revenues as a proportion of total mobile revenues to drop significantly. In… Read more

With analysis from Vodafone’s latest annual results for the year ending March 2011, Mark Heath asks a big question that has major repercussions for mobile network operators. Are we now seeing the decline of mobile messaging revenues? Mobile messaging in general and SMS in particular have proved highly-lucrative services for mobile network operators. In the… Read more

Smartphones are starting to have a significant positive effect on mobile network operator revenues as a whole, with positive news from Vodafone today. Vodafone announced its results for the year ending 31 March 2011, with group revenue up 3.2% on the previous year to GBP45.9 billion. Vodafone claims to be leading its competitors in the… Read more

In his wireless blog, Alastair Brydon reviews early examples of LTE pricing, in Denmark, Germany and Sweden. Now that a number of European LTE services have been launched, I’ve reviewed the early pricing models being adopted in three countries. The table below shows the current LTE pricing charged by Telia (Denmark), Telia (Sweden) and Vodafone… Read more