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Rolf Hansen, simyo founder and CEO, started Germany’s first mobile no-frills provider. Based on his experience he formulated ten rules that are constitutional for success, particularly but not exclusively in the digital economy.
“The first and most important imperative for any executive in the business world is to be prepared the “dgital revolution “. This means [...]

China’s Ministry MIIT granted three different 3G cellphone licenses on January 7, 2009:
* a TD-SCDMA license to China Mobile (457 million GSM subscribers)
* a wCDMA license to China Unicom (133 million GSM subscribers)
* a CDMA2000 license to China Telecom (43 million CDMA subscribers acquired in 2008 from China Unicom, 216 million fixnet phone subscribers, [...]

At the upcoming Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos 2009 the future of mobile communication is one out of many challenging topics at this years Global Agenda. You can be also part of the discussion by joining the Davos Debates on Youtube.
Future of Mobile Communications
Excerpt from the Global Agenda 2009
Approximately 60% [...]

The world of mobile media is full of surprises – and it is all the better for that!
Who would have thought at the beginning of 2005 that the per-minute charges for mobile phone connections in Germany would ever be in the single-digit euro cent range? Or that, as a result, practically everyone would be able [...]

In this decade the mega-trend “Cloud Computing” will lead to a new era of the internet. Consumers will save their information, documents and content (fotos, videos, etc.) online, share it with others or publish it on the web. There are already many examples today to understand this major change of usability and consumer behaviour.
Besides mobile [...]

Travis Katz, Managing Director International at MySpace, answers the question if mobile is most important for a digital company like MySpace.
The answer is “Yes”. Mobile is one of the fastest growing and most important parts of their business. They have over 5 million unqiue visitors per day on the MySpace mobile platform, which is roughly [...]

At the end of 2008 we met in Duesseldorf, Germany, for the first workshop for the MOCOM 2020 project to define key-goals, evaluate our strategy and discuss key questions.
Attendees have been Rolf Hansen, Christian Magel, Thomas Neugebauer, Ira Reckenthäler, Fabian Viertel from Simyo, Anke Kisters from Trimedia, Mark Pohlmann from Mavens Dialog and me, [...]

During a Conversation with Charlie Schick, Chief-Editor NOKIA Conversation, he explains what will be different when we reach 4 billion mobile subscribers and that we might reach this milestone in 2010 already.
Furthermore I asked him: “Google is dominating the web right now, who will be dominating the mobile web in the future?” He thinks that [...]

Taewoo Danny Kim is known as the first “full-time” Blogger in South Korea and he is also member of the MOCOM2020 advisory board. He wrotes 10 korean language blogs and is author of the english blog technokimchi.
During a video-interview Danny talks about his work and current trends in Asia and in South Korea. Teens in [...]

Marco Koeder, MOCOM2020 Advisor, discusses the question if you need a Ecosystem for mobile media to be successful?
NTT Docomo has build a rich ecosystem in Japan and creates an environment where content-providers and network-companies can thrive and build a powerful mobile portfolio. We see similiar examples right now with the iPhone and its App-Store or [...]