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		<title>The 2011 Mobile Year in Review &#8211; Report</title>
		<link>http://consultantvalueadded.com/2012/02/03/the-2011-mobile-year-in-review-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting report coming from MobileFuture. According to it, the mobile space in 2011 saw profound growth and a vast array of new wireless innovations and services emerge. Their annual video (&#8220;The 2011 Mobile Year in Review&#8221;) takes a look at the major accomplishments and ground-breaking developments in the wireless space last year. Among the key highlights: 1. Whopping [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consultantvalueadded.com&amp;blog=3987427&amp;post=1821&amp;subd=consultantvalueadded&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is there a business case for IPTV in Middle East? &#8211; Case Study.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IPTV has been one of the telecommunication hypes with higher trough of revenue expectations and business stimulation. However, IPTV is still a revenue innovator promise as very few countries reach the minimum level of penetration to defend the case. There are few out-performers in the telecom space where IPTV’s take-up reflected a substantial contributor to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consultantvalueadded.com&amp;blog=3987427&amp;post=1804&amp;subd=consultantvalueadded&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Information Society in Spain Report 2011</title>
		<link>http://consultantvalueadded.com/2012/01/30/the-information-society-in-spain-report-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fundación Telefonica has recently published an interesting report: The 12th edition of the Information Society in Spain. This report gathers the main indicators, data and changes that allow a description of the current situation of the sector to be made. The Information Society is a continually evolving reality. In 2011, connections to the Internet in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consultantvalueadded.com&amp;blog=3987427&amp;post=1793&amp;subd=consultantvalueadded&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple&#8217;s quarter earnings results and its impact on telecom</title>
		<link>http://consultantvalueadded.com/2012/01/25/apples-quarter-earnings-results-and-its-impact-on-telecom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple yesterday announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 first quarter, which spanned 14 weeks and ended December 31, 2011. The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $46.33 billion and record quarterly net profit of $13.06 billion, or $13.87 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $26.74 billion and net quarterly profit of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consultantvalueadded.com&amp;blog=3987427&amp;post=1780&amp;subd=consultantvalueadded&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>M2M services market to rise to $35 Billion by 2016</title>
		<link>http://consultantvalueadded.com/2012/01/25/m2m-services-market-to-rise-to-35-billion-by-2016/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The global wireless M2M market has felt the impact of the economic downturn in the past year. Hardware manufacturers have suffered from shrinking margins as volume growth has flattened out at the same time as prices have continued to fall. Falling demand in the automotive sector caused by the sharp decline in vehicle sales has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consultantvalueadded.com&amp;blog=3987427&amp;post=1767&amp;subd=consultantvalueadded&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Predictions on mobile telecommunications for 2012</title>
		<link>http://consultantvalueadded.com/2012/01/22/predictions-on-mobile-telecommunications-for-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love predictions. A prediction or forecast is a statement about the way things will happen in the future, often but not always based on experience or knowledge. While there is much overlap between prediction and forecast, a prediction may be a statement that some outcome is expected, while a forecast may cover a range of possible outcomes. Nevertheless, our friends at Yankee [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consultantvalueadded.com&amp;blog=3987427&amp;post=1750&amp;subd=consultantvalueadded&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile data traffic to grow 10-fold by 2016</title>
		<link>http://consultantvalueadded.com/2012/01/20/mobile-data-traffic-to-grow-10-fold-by-2016/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The traditional telecom model, which was to deliver voice and messaging services to consumers and businesses, is terminally ill. While the voice and messaging segment is still the most important source of operator revenue, the future of the industry is in the provision of data. As posted in our previous blogs referred to &#8220;Offloading data [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consultantvalueadded.com&amp;blog=3987427&amp;post=1742&amp;subd=consultantvalueadded&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Consumer Media Usage Across TV, Online, Mobile and Social</title>
		<link>http://consultantvalueadded.com/2012/01/19/consumer-media-usage-across-tv-online-mobile-and-social/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting report came to me this week. It&#8217;s Nielsen&#8217;s &#8220;State of Meida: Consumer Usage Report 2011&#8243; where it&#8217;s stated that almost one in three U.S. TV households – 35.9 million – owns four or more televisions, according to a new report on media usage from Nielsen. Across the ever-changing U.S. media landscape, TV maintains [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consultantvalueadded.com&amp;blog=3987427&amp;post=1737&amp;subd=consultantvalueadded&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile market review – Egypt 2011</title>
		<link>http://consultantvalueadded.com/2011/10/21/mobile-market-review-%e2%80%93-egypt-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The telecommunication industry of Egypt is one of the fastest developing sectors in the country, with 69.3 million subscribers by the end of 2010, which is estimated to reach 95.19 million by 2015. Since the establishment of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in 1999, the Egyptian telecom industry has ushered into an era [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consultantvalueadded.com&amp;blog=3987427&amp;post=1721&amp;subd=consultantvalueadded&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guest post: Reflections on interconnect and roaming</title>
		<link>http://consultantvalueadded.com/2011/09/15/guest-post-reflections-on-interconnect-and-roaming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guest post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Huawei]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interconnect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Chan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roaming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wholesale]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was invited to a presentation recently on a telecom partner management product. The presenter pitched the product as something which can handle all partner related settlements like interconnect, roaming, and wholesale . That really gets me thinking as that sounded like interconnect and roaming are different things from wholesale. To me, they definitely are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consultantvalueadded.com&amp;blog=3987427&amp;post=1716&amp;subd=consultantvalueadded&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Offloading  data traffic: femto strategies</title>
		<link>http://consultantvalueadded.com/2011/06/06/offloading-data-traffic-femto-strategies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[backbone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cost reduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emerging markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fixed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data offloading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[femto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[femtocell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mobile data traffic has been growing at an unprecedented pace and is increasingly outstripping the network capacity. This rapid growth of data traffic from smartphones and tablets highlights the need to offload traffic to smaller cells. Offloading data to complementary networks promises to be an opportunity for the network operators to reduce the capacity issue [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consultantvalueadded.com&amp;blog=3987427&amp;post=1700&amp;subd=consultantvalueadded&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Digital life: today and tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://consultantvalueadded.com/2011/06/03/digital-life-today-and-tomorrow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 06:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ICT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cloud services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[connected home]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electronics & gadgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infographic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KPIs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile payments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online consumption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social networks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[telecom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vertical networks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web & technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[work & business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just got an interesting article with a cool infographic work forecasting internet and digital related data in a very nice way. It was written by PSFK&#8217;s Paloma Vazquez. Absolutely recommendable. Digital life: today and tomorrow (video). 15 keys facts and conclusions to know the future of the Internet in 2015 The 2011 MRC European e-Commerce [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consultantvalueadded.com&amp;blog=3987427&amp;post=1685&amp;subd=consultantvalueadded&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Preventing the business from predatory pricing operators</title>
		<link>http://consultantvalueadded.com/2011/06/02/preventing-the-business-from-predatory-pricing-operators/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consulting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emerging markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prepaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pricing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[telecom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elasticity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[margin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[predatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pricing rebalance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In telecom, we refer to predatory pricing as the practice of selling a telecom product or service at a very low price, intending to drive competitors out of the market, or create barriers to entry for potential new competitors. If competitors or potential competitors cannot sustain equal or lower prices without losing money, they go [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consultantvalueadded.com&amp;blog=3987427&amp;post=1673&amp;subd=consultantvalueadded&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is mobile a real opportunity for online gambling?</title>
		<link>http://consultantvalueadded.com/2011/06/01/is-mobile-a-real-opportunity-for-online-gambling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile gambling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[betfair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[betvictor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bwin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile gambling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online gambling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mobile gambling refers to playing games of chance or skill for money by using a remote device such as a Tablet computer, Smartphone or a Mobile phone with a wireless Internet connection. Over a dozen mobile casinos are operating as of March 2011. Online gambling services are now a mobile well-established sector of the global [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consultantvalueadded.com&amp;blog=3987427&amp;post=1657&amp;subd=consultantvalueadded&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>4G Capacity Gains study: 3.3x gain over today’s 3G networks</title>
		<link>http://consultantvalueadded.com/2011/05/31/4g-capacity-gains-study-3-3x-gain-over-today%e2%80%99s-3g-networks/</link>
		<comments>http://consultantvalueadded.com/2011/05/31/4g-capacity-gains-study-3-3x-gain-over-today%e2%80%99s-3g-networks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 09:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consulting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ICT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[telecom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[4G]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[4G auction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LTE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spectrum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ofcom yesterday published the outcome of our 4G Capacity Gains study developed by Real Wireless. At 120 pages for the main report and a further 90 pages of appendices, we thought it would be useful to give a quick summary of the key findings. In short: The report was commissioned by Ofcom to assess the realistic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consultantvalueadded.com&amp;blog=3987427&amp;post=1638&amp;subd=consultantvalueadded&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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