EU-Roaming

As you might know the European Union resolved to reduce cost for roaming.

Telcos are frightened to lose income – studies expect cuts of 2.4 Billion Euro. It isn’t a big surprise that telcos react in such a way.
Austrian Telcos are thinking about ways to counterbalance this cuts and expect the fall of the subvention of devices, but they agree in not increase the costs for national calls.

I absolutely welcome the reduce for roaming and I’m absolutely convinced that more calls will be made if prices fall and that telcos won’t have to compensate such high loses. Furthermore I often read and heard about the fall of subvention and nothing happened. So don’t panic, market will regulate this for us.

Via futurezone.orf.at (German)

Virus spread via mobile

The hotlines of Pakistani providers were running hot because of a rumor that a virus could be spread over the mobile network. I don’t talk about a computer- or mobile-virus but a virus which infect humans.

The fear of such a virus was that big, that the telcos had to announce statements to calm down the costumers.

It is not known who brought up this buzz, but it’s a funny little story!

Via: futurezone.orf.at (German)

Germany: DVB-H Alliance

Pic by rrho

The German telco’s Vodafone, T-Mobile and O2 want to bid together for mobile TV licenses. Therefore they sticked together and created a alliance.

Starting from spring 2008 16 channels should be broadcasted in Germany. EURO 2008 should push the start-up and help introducing the service. I’m looking forward how this service will be accepted and how many devices will be available.

Motivation for Mobile 2.0 from a marketer

During the research for my thesis I found a blog-entry from Paul Buchhorn at marketing-blog.biz.

The date he wrote this entry was about the time I started writing my proposal for university and I have the same expectations about the future of mobile communication as Mr. Buchhorn has.

He expects a market of 13 billion Dollar in the year 2011, supported by the trend for a second device.

This trend was one of the main intension to write about this thesis and start this blog!

p.s.: Unfortunately the mentioned blog is written in German!