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Month: February 2013

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Can Direct Operator Billing Help Pandora?

February 28, 2013 Edward Finegold 0

Pandora Internet Radio has just announced that it will cap its ad-supported listeners at 40 hours per month in order to combat rising royalty costs. If you dig deeper, however, it seems the real problem […]

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Billing Driven Opportunities

Roaming – Agreement on Inflated Prices, but is the Future Clear?

February 28, 2013 Alex Leslie 0

There was agreement and disagreement about roaming in the recent Telecoms.com survey. Both the wider industry audience of 1,931 readers and the 600 respondents who work for operators agree that the mobile industry’s view that […]

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Eliminate the POS and Optimize Loyalty in Mobile Payments

February 27, 2013 Edward Finegold 0

Last week I made a passionate plea to mobile operators to take advantage of consumer and market lethargy in order to win in mobile payments. Since that writing, two events have occurred that have reinforced […]

Billing Driven Opportunities

Billing – to Standardise or Not to Standardise? The Cloud Holds the Key

February 27, 2013 Alex Leslie 0

Large international operators face many challenges and billing is a major one. In a broad ranging industry survey (registration is needed but worth it), Telecoms.com highlights a range of opinions from a panel of 1,931 […]

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Digital Content

Fox vs DISH: How Broadband Providers Can Break Old Pay TV

February 25, 2013 Edward Finegold 0

I was reading the news today about Fox suing distribution partner DISH because its new “Hopper” set-top boxes allow subscribers to stream both live and recorded TV to connected and mobile devices and “instantly skip […]

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In Depth

Laziness Can Help Operators’ Steal Mobile Payment Show

February 22, 2013 Edward Finegold 0

Mobile pay chatter is heating up with MWC upon us. Too much of it is nonsense. All of the bickering over which mobile wallet will win is pointless. The argument that NFC has to be […]

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Are US MVNOs Parasites or Parasite-eating Symbionts?

February 21, 2013 Edward Finegold 0

There appear to be around 50 MVNOs operating in the US today.  Whatever the actual number, I believe MVNOs are driving a rise in churn. I also believe that may be extremely healthy for the […]

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Billing Driven Opportunities

In Advertising – Innovate, with Muscle

February 21, 2013 Alex Leslie 0

Like many, I am guilty of stereotyping telcos as lumbering giants unable to move fast even when their lives depend on it. For the first time, though, we are seeing innovation and bulk working together […]

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10 Hashtags I will Watch in Barcelona, from Scotland.

February 20, 2013 Alex Leslie 0

I am not going to Mobile World Congress this year, I thought I would watch it on Twitter instead, from the comfort of my own sofa. This is what I will be tuned in to. […]

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Social Care Interfaces Stink; Google, Can You Please Fix This?

February 19, 2013 Edward Finegold 0

In BillingViews’ earlier days we went so far as to benchmark operators against each other in terms of their social care performance via Facebook. But whether studying it empirically or reviewing it anecdotally, I always come […]

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