I was reading an interesting article today about how Bono, the U2 singer and charity activist, is working with Motorola and the UK’s major network operators to raise money for The Global Fund’s African AIDs programme.

Bono and Bobby Shriver (Ch…

During the course of bringing together each MEX conference, we speak to literally hundreds of people from throughout the mobile industry to understand how the landscape is evolving. One of the key themes emerging from many of these conversations …

With the MEX conference right around the corner (31st May – 1st June 2006, London), we’re running a series of articles focusing on key agenda topics. The idea is to stimulate debate prior to the event and introduce you to the expert speakers who’…

Mike Short, Chairman of the Mobile Data Association and Vice President of R&D at O2, emailed with some thoughts on how the 2008 and 2012 Olympics (in Beijing and London respectively) provide an ideal opportunity to showcase the mobile user experie…

I had an interesting experience with a recent mobile development project. The company wanted to showcase the full capabilities of their platform, but they ended up disabling a key feature. The technology allowed the client application to poll t…

ARCchart, the telecoms analysis firm, has an interesting article about the link between churn rates and subscriber acquisition cost (SAC) in various markets. Citing the example of Vodafone’s activities in several European countries, ARCchart arri…

Fighting talk on roaming

An interesting follow-up on the European roaming charges issue today. The GSM Association has released the findings of a study by CRA International which concludes the European Commission’s proposals to regulate roamin…

Do you think of yourself as a canary? Or are you more of a racoon? Orange, the network operator, wants to know.

As part of a new service plan promotion it is asking customers to identify themselves with one of four animals representing partic…