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...
At the 2011 GSMA Mobile Money Summit, Dickson Chu, Head of Global New Product Development & Alliances at Citi, claimed that the traditional strengths of banks in areas such as trust, security and regulatory compliance mean they must continue to play a key role in the emerging mobile money ecosystem. 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...
In his keynote at the 2011 GSMA Mobile Money Summit, IFC’s Donny Prasetya shared his thoughts on where the real opportunity lies in using the mobile channel to offer financial services. 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...
Professor Krishnan Ganapathy, president of India's Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation, warned that “mobile health can never, ever, be set to take off unless it is integrated into the core of the healthcare delivery system in our country,” during his keynote at this year’s GSMA-mHA Mobile Health Summit. 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...
At this year’s GSMA Mobile Money Summit Asian operator Axiata Group Berhad outlined its progress with four mobile money deployments but warned that raising customer awareness of its offerings remains its biggest challenge. Read more...
Chris Ross, Managing Executive for Commercial Development at Vodacom South Africa, highlighted the role of the mobile operator as a key enabling partner in the mHealth ecosystem during this year’s GSMA-mHA Mobile Health Summit, noting that: “We are an enabler. We don’t purport to be the medical profession, but we underpin the activities that the medical profession takes part in.” 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...
Telefonica believes that partnerships with various players in the value chain are necessary if mHealth is to grow beyond test pilots into a mainstream global opportunity. Read more...
Tom Wheeler, Chairman of the Board of the mHealth Alliance, drew the 2011 GSMA-mHA Mobile Health Summit to a close by underlining the core commodity at the heart of the healthcare business – information. Read more...
Obed Bapela, Deputy Minister of Communications for South Africa, opened this year’s GSMA-mHA Mobile Health Summit with a message that there is enormous potential for mobile health services but barriers to mainstream success must be overcome. Read more...