Introducing The New Mobile World Order

If the business practices of major mobile operators continue as currently constituted, these operators will no longer be able to stay solvent by the year 2013.

There are challenges in the mobile market that have not been addressed, pain points that remain and mounting challenges from within the industry and from the outside. Simply put, 2012 will separate the wheat from the chaff. The intelligent will innovate to survive and the rest will cut back to reach their bottom line, ultimately fading out of the scene. It will be a battle of quality vs. quantity and as always, quality wins.

It is a precarious time to be a mobile operator. The problems are simple. Cost is going up, revenue is going down and the economy is unstable at best. The solutions? Not so simple, but they are there! And we will show you where.

During the next eight weeks, we will address the mobile broadband landscape with a series titled The New Mobile World Order. We will look at the realities of increasing operator costs, decreasing ARPU, support costs, network coverage, the cloud, OTT, pain points specific to different markets, and possible strategies found from mining mobile’s own history.

We will give you the lay of the land as we see it and then hopefully see you at Mobile World Congress, where we can talk some more!