Tag Archives: BSMA

MWC2013: The Mobile Dichotomy, Net-Head versus Cust-Head

The overall feel of MWC (Mobile World Congress) this year is upbeat.  More people attending, up from 67k to 72k.  The money being spent on LTE (Long Term Evolution) is starting to percolate through the industry, and later this year LTE-A (Advanced) as Telstra and several other operators announced.  In these articles from 2008 and […]

End of 2012 Entry: An Eventful and Noisy Year

In this end of year article I’ll review 2012 and look at a few of the things coming up in 2013.  2012 has been an eventful year, we tend to miss how eventful as we’re busy working and raising our families (a life-long commitment!).  The year opened with some operators finally admitting revenues are in […]

A Rapidly Growing Problem for Mobile Operators: NOT Security of Network Equipment Software but Unapproved Handsets from China

It’s not discussed in public by operators or regulators or the BSMA (that is an intentional typo on the GSMA given some of its PR).  Though this weblog has been discussing it for a number of years when we reviewed Wadaro back in 2008, and presented some interesting analysis this year: it’s the impact of […]