Radio segments:
MyPhone - Ideas about the future mobile phone
14.02.2010 | Deutschlandfunk
The mobile phone is already an important part in everybody’s life. It reminds on appointments, helps to kill time in the subway with music and offers mobile communication techniques like SMS or MMS. But how does the mobile phone looks like in the future? Which functions should be integrated? Manifold answers to these questions are collected in this audio collage.
(available only in German)
TV segments:
mpass - ZDF report from the MCTA
29.01.2008 | ZDF Morgenmagazin
Vodafone and Télefonica O2 Germany launched a new mobile payment procedure called „mpass“. It is operated by these two MNO but it is free to be used by customers from the other network operators as well. But, for a start, mpass is only used in the stationary Internet. This should lead to the breakthrough in the field of mobile payment on the German market.
(available only in German)
Print articles:
MWC: Separate worlds at Mobile Money
February 2010 | heise online
Payment via mobile phone offers high value for all players, ranging from banks and retail companies to end customers. But, services like mobile payment, mobile banking or mobile money transfer are hardly penetrated in developed countries. This results mainly from the lack of cooperation by each player. A completely different picture emerges in developing countries in which a majority of the population has no access to standard banking services. In these countries, mobile applications do not only complement existing services but provide the public with the single option to make cashless payments.
(available only in German)
The years of plenty are over
February 2010 | Computerwoche
The mobile market is moving. Familiar structures are changing at a phenomenal rate: Traditional voice services have been exhausted and hardly generate gross margins, customer demand for greater bandwidth and innovative services. Comprehensive regulatory measures of the EU worsen the situation. Overall, this means, that the industry the revenues are declining since 2005 despite increasing customers. The network operator (MNO) faces great challenges. In order to survive in the market, a rethinking is necessary: instead of price competition a change of the business models is needed. Convergence deals for end customers and being a service provider for business customers might offer new opportunities.
(available only in German)
Mobile network operators: The great failure threatens
February 2010 | ZDNet.de
The mobile network operators (MNOs) face a dilemma. The end users are increasingly demanding higher bandwidths and new innovative services. To survive in the market, operators have to meet these needs, forcing them to significant investments in network infrastructure. Against the background of steadily falling revenues in recent years, this is a difficult situation for the operator. Reasons for that and which strategies the MNOs should chose are discussed by industry experts at this year's conference "Mobile Communications - Technologies, Markets and Applications (MCTA)” in Berlin, Germany.
(available only in German)