At the recent GSMA Mobile Asia Congress, Sanjay Kapoor, CEO of Bharti Airtel, highlighted the challenges in delivering advanced services in India, a market where in two years’ time smartphone penetration will still be below ten percent. Read more...
Jon Fredrik Baksaas, president and CEO of Telenor, used his keynote presentation at the recent GSMA Mobile Asia Congress to claim that the evolution of mobile handsets has changed the way that operators have to do business. Read more...
Li Yue, President and CEO of China Mobile, the world’s largest operator, revealed more details on his company’s ‘Wireless City’ initiative during the recent GSMA Mobile Asia Congress. Read more...
Telstra CEO David Thodey told delegates at the recent GSMA Mobile Asia Congress that the firm was building “two very different” LTE networks at its operations in Australia and Hong Kong. Read more...
The GSMA’s new Director General highlighted the role of the operator as the key enabler of mobile services during her opening keynote at the recent GSMA Mobile Asia Congress. Read more...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the US regulator, is tackling the so-called “spectrum crunch” to promote the development of mobile broadband. Speaking at the recent GSMA Mobile Asia Congress, FCC chairman Julius Genachowski outlined the FCC’s initiatives to help mobile broadband develop in the US and beyond. Read more...
KDDI expects its mobile networks to be running at capacity by 2014 even after the introduction of LTE, according to KDDI president Takashi Tanaka. Read more...
During his keynote appearance at the 2011 GSMA Mobile Asia Congress, Jinwoo So, president and CEO of SK Planet, noted that for his company’s home market of South Korea, growth in smartphones is “eliminating the boundaries between different parts of the industry” – making it more difficult for individual companies to compete effectively. Read more...
ZTE president Shi Lirong singled out the enterprise and vertical markets as the key routes to future growth for operators and vendors in his keynote address at last month’s GSMA Mobile Asia Congress. Read more...
Facebook expects mobile to be the main source of its next billion users as smartphones become more powerful and the value of adding social tools to devices is realised. “We expect our next billion users will come primarily on mobile,” Facebook VP for partnerships and corporate development Vaughan Smith said during his keynote appearance at last month’s GSMA Mobile Asia Congress. Read more...
Japanese market leader NTT Docomo outlined at the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress how it plans to ramp-up its LTE rollout and introduce new billing services in order to cope with the rising demand for data in one of the world's most advanced mobile markets. Read more...
Li Yue, President and CEO of China Mobile, the world’s largest operator, revealed more details on his company’s ‘Wireless City’ initiative during the recent GSMA Mobile Asia Congress. Read more...
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Sigve Brekke, Executive Vice President, Head of Asia, Telenor, used his keynote address at the recent GSMA Mobile Asia Congress to discuss the unique requirements of operating in emerging markets. Read more...
The Chinese vendor's president, Shi Lirong, said at the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress that "operators and vendors must work together to win the market in LTE." Read more...
Tadashi Onodera, President & Chairman of KDDI, used his keynote address at the recent GSMA Mobile Asia Congress to confirm the CDMA Japanese operator’s migration to LTE technology, while warning that LTE alone will not be enough to support growing demand for mobile data. Read more...
In this keynote from the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress the CEO of Hong Kong operator CSL, Joseph O’Konek, reveals the company’s LTE plans as its existing network experiences year-on-year quadrupling data traffic levels. Read more...
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The vendor’s Asia president Rajeev Singh-Molares said at the recent GSMA Mobile Asia Congress that mobile data traffic could increase by as much as 40 times over the next five years, but that growth would be not be uniform. Read more...
The recent GSMA Mobile Asia Congress saw Li Yue, the new president and CEO of the world’s largest operator, make his first public presentation in his new role. Here he explains how his company is adapting its business strategy to capitalise on the burgeoning apps market.*Please note this keynote was recorded in Mandarin Chinese* Read more...