4 trends from CTIA
CTIA, the US mobile telecoms tradeshow, has produced a deluge of announcements this week. I’m going to pick out four which represent strong trends within the industry.
1. Industry adopting scalable, vector-based engines for interface and appli…
Frustration over centralised control
I chaired an evening seminar for the NOC and 160characters.org yesterday. The London event was entitled: “Who will save the mobile industry from itself?” Mike Grenville at 160characters.org and Andrew Darling of the NOC had asked for my input be…
Jitterbug brings individualism to seniors
Following-on from my earlier article entitled ‘Segmentation is a step, individualism is the goal,’ I was delighted to discover a new service called Jitterbug which embodies this approach. Jitterbug is a telephony service aimed at seniors requirin…
Philips involving consumers more closely in the design process
Back at the end of 2004 PMN and Alloy collaborated on a project entitled ‘Design for reality’. The objective was to highlight the long-term goal of designing mobile devices which the user feels have been created for them as an individual.
We f…
Segmentation is a step, individualism is the goal
I’ve been thinking about segmentation recently and was asked to provide some comments on the issue for an article.
Most mobile services are still not structured in a way which reflects customer’s behavioural patterns. One of the biggest challe…
Voice roaming may be over-priced, data is off the scale
There has been a great deal of discussion about roaming charges following the EU proposals this week – you can read my original article on the subject here.
The debate has focused on charges for voice calls. However, there have also been sever…
Storm brewing over European roaming charges
European mobile operators are facing a storm over roaming charges which has been brewing for years. The situation is simple: operators charge excessively for roaming services because there is little competitive pressure to do otherwise.
One of…
Japan becoming key testing ground for Symbian’s open approach
Japan is one of Symbian’s key markets. 27 Symbian OS handsets have been released in Japan, primarily through operator NTT DoCoMo, which specified Symbian and Linux as its OS requirements for FOMA devices. DoCoMo also took the unusual step of li…