Asia Pacific Operators September 14, 2018 Blog: Philippines 3rd operator inches towards reality With Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte threatening to personally intervene and select the country’s third telecoms operator if no decision is made by November, the head of the country’s ICT department weighed in insisting “we will have a third telco before… By Joseph Waring
Devices September 6, 2018 Intelligence Brief: The new iPhones – what we know and what you should be looking for Next Wednesday I’ll be in LA (at Mobile World Congress Americas) running from meeting to meeting and soaking up insights about the mobile industry from all the exhibitors, speakers, etc. By GSMA Intelligence
5G+ Apple Devices Ericsson Nokia RAN Vendors Samsung August 29, 2018 Intelligence Brief: Who will win at MWC Americas? In 2017, on the eve of the inaugural Mobile World Congress Americas (MWCA), I penned a column to dig into a fairly complicated question: what would success for the new event look like? Just between us, there were some fundamental… By GSMA Intelligence
5G+ Devices Network Tech RAN Vendors Samsung August 22, 2018 Intelligence Brief: Why Samsung RAN success matters Although we track wireless network capex and opex, we don’t track the market share of network infrastructure vendors at GSMA Intelligence (yet). It’s a tricky business. By GSMA Intelligence
Asia Pacific China Mobile Greater China Network Tech Operators August 21, 2018 Blog: China operator H1 2018 scorecard China’s 4G penetration continued to climb, hitting 73. 6 per cent after the big three added 212 million LTE subscribers in the year to end-June, taking the total to nearly 1. 1 billion. By Joseph Waring
Big Tech Devices Google Intel Qualcomm RAN Vendors Samsung SoftBank August 15, 2018 Intelligence Brief: How the IoT ecosystem stacks up Recent weeks have seen interesting developments within the IoT ecosystem, coming from the likes of ARM, Google, Intel, Qualcomm and Samsung. By GSMA Intelligence
Asia Pacific Operators Singtel August 14, 2018 Blog: Big 3 feel heat from Singapore MVNOs Singapore’s three major mobile players have a lot in common these days: they faced falling or weak earnings in Q2 and experienced a drop in mobile subscriber numbers and ARPU compared with Q2 2017. By Joseph Waring