Category Archives: User behavior

Mobile pricing stats…

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Jens Zander

PTS, the Swedish regulator released its report on “Price progression in Mobile Telephony and Broadband Access (Swedish). This is an interesting follow-up on the recent user statistics. Picking a few interesting numbers The average cost for mobile telephony for at … Continue reading →

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New mobile traffic and business stats

Posted on November 15, 2012 by Jens Zander

The Swedish regulator, PTS, released its telecom usage statistics for the first 6 months of 2012. The report is unfortunately at the moment available only  in Swedish (short English abstract included, though)  We can report some interesting figures  for the … Continue reading →

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Verizons explains logic behind “Data only” plan

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Jens Zander

The interesting new “Share Everything” subscriptions by Verizon in the US will include unlimited voice minutes, unlimited text, video and picture messaging and a single data allowance for up to 10 Verizon devices ranging from 10-40 USD per month and … Continue reading →

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Cashless Society and Mobile Payments

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Jan Markendahl

Assistant Professor Niklas Arvidsson at Industrial dynamics department at KTH is running a project on Cashless society. The main objective is identify and describe the potential consequences of “cashless-ness” for consumers, merchants, public transportation, banks, payment providers, mobile operators, etc. … Continue reading →

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Nokia – brave or desperate (or both)?

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Jens Zander

In a recent piece by Telecom TV under the headline “Delusional Nokia claims youth are fed-up of the iPhone and irritated by Android“, the relevant question is asked whether Nokia now is really brave or just desperate. Taking their own … Continue reading →

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..and here is the Ericsson Traffic report

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Jens Zander

Ericsson recently released its Traffic and Market Report.  The results regarding mobile traffic are pretty much consistent with the Cisco predictions. Traffic currently doubles every year (corresponding to a 30-increase over 5 years). The report also analyses the diverse use … Continue reading →

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Traffic predictions and the design of Future Wireless Network

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Jens Zander

Recently we got to review Ciscos White paper on traffic predictions for mobile data in the years to come. An interesting discussion is what is going to drive the future generation network development – beyond LTE and its cousins.  The … Continue reading →

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Massive growth in Mobile data – 20% of Swedish users have tried VoIP

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Jens Zander

The move to data services is massive in Sweden. Out of 7M internet access subscriptions, 4.2M are various form of mobile data subscriptions, with almost 2M new mobile subscriptions only in the last 12 months (PTS report on the Swedish … Continue reading →

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