3G mobile diversity in China
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, [...]
The democratization of Mobile Telecommunication
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 [...]
Do you need an Ecosystem for Mobile Media?
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 [...]
