Just as the FCC all but gives the nod to Title II regulation of the US branch of the Internet, Susan Crawford rips into the Zero rating pricing model. Susan Crawford is one of the standard bearers for Net Neutrality. For those of us not familiar with her, Professor Crawford...
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s entry on Smart Communications (here), Globe Telecom has issued a press release declaring its domination of the mobile data industry “in Philippines after revenues breached the P10 billion mark for the first nine months of the year, 46% more than the combined mobile...
A blog entry earlier this week on Airtel Nigeria’s Trybes (here) caused a mini-feedback storm. Several readers and industry colleagues sent me examples innovative digital lifestyle pricing plans. This one comes complements of Smart in the Philippines. Smart offers subscribers many innovative data pricing plans, put together by some...
Some recent reports indicate that the Indian Telecoms regulator, Trai, will be looking into Bharti Airtel’s data packages offering access to Facebook and WhatsApp. The access to the social networking services is bundled into data plans at a fixed price regardless of usage volume. These plans are coming under...
South African operator CEO says “We can’t be like children in a playpen” Cell C CEO Jose dos Santos says that operators should accept the fact that OTT is here to stay and they should figure out how to play nicely together. Dantos suggests that it may be time...
Non-Stop Video Streaming Of Youtube & Tonton Zero-Rated Data Content Malaysian operator U-Mobile announces a collaborative deal with YouTube and Tonton to offer mobile customers zero-rated streaming video. Customers will have to get up early in the morning (or stay up rather late ) to take advantage of this...
Telecom companies like Vodafone, Idea, Tata Tele roll out cheaper plans for festive season It seems this October is festival season in India and local telecom companies are using the occasion to launch an all-out data price war aimed at grabbing more subscribers. The cost of Indian data plans are...
Globe Telecom shows Philippine consumers new ways to connect via mobile internet with new lifestyle bundles Globe Telecom has tinkered with zero-rated applications in the past. Facebook Zero was offered to customers in order to drive up the number of subscribers actually using mobile data. Many Filipinos prefer Wifi. ...
I read an amusing article on my Internet travels last week. The article quotes a Deloitte survey claiming ‘only 20% of LTE subscribers say they are watching more video. Deloitte claims this is a significant decline since 2013 when the number was at 49%. The survey says email and...
MTS to offer free movies to data, smartphone customers MTS is jumping on the OTT bandwagon by offering a catalog of short films and encouraging further content creation by subscribers. MTS is hoping this move will help push their data plan take up and push non-voice revenue contributions. It...
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