Vodafone announces the closure of navigation services (Sweden)

On 03.15.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The free navigation service provided by Google and Nokia has taken a toll on Vodafone which has announced the closure of its navigation business. Wayfinder, a Swedish navigational software firm was bought by Vodafone in December 2008 at a price of $30 million (19.8 million pounds). The closure will result in the loss of 95 jobs across Sweden, Romania and Britain.

After the introduction of free services in the last six months, commercial proposition for navigational services had completely changed and existing customers on the Vodafone offering will be moved over to new services provided by partners such as handset makers.

After the announcement of Google and Nokia’s plans, the business model of providing paid-for turn-by-turn navigation services has come under pressure.

Vodafone entered the navigation business in its drive to grow mobile data revenues as the mobile market became saturated.

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Orange & T-mobile get approvals to merge. UK’s largest Mobile Operator is now in the making.

On 11.12.09, In Mobile, By Editor

The proposed merger between Orange and T-Mobile gets all the nods from competition authorities and government bodies in UK and Europe. This signals the creation of UKs largest mobile operator with 30 million users and a market share of around 37 percent.

Timotheus Höttges, the CFO of Deutsche Telekom said- “The negotiations were conducted in a fair way and I am certain that this spirit of professionalism and partnership will shape the future of our joint venture. It will set new standards as number one in UK mobile market.”

Of late, T-mobile has faired well but Orange has been fairing below expectations with its fixed broadband customer base dwindling to below the 1 million mark.

Most analysts believe that the merger will allow the companies to better leverage their synergies and develop competitive synergies in high growth sectors such as mobile broadband and roll out innovative services.

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US Mobile Market consolidation not necessary- Deutsche Telekom CFO

On 10.14.09, In Mobile, By Editor

Deutsche Telekom CFO, Timotheus Hoettges told Bloomberg News that he sees no need for further consolidation of the U.S. mobile-phone market.

He mentioned that there are four national players in the U.S. market for 300 million households, whereas in Europe, there are 350 million households with close to 70 operators.

Deutsche Telekom’s current focus in the U.S. is on expanding its 3G network.  It is investing $3.5 billion euros in the network in 2009. He said that the mobile data market in the US is booming and they must participate in that now.

On the Issue of 4G networks, there is a possibility that T-mobile could provide funding in exchange for access to ClearWire’s 4G network. Verizon and AT&T are already buliding independent 4G networks.

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Vodafone Iceland Selects FTS’ Business Control & Billing Solutions

On 06.05.07, In Mobile, By Editor

FTS (LSE: FTS), a global provider of Business Control, Billing and CRM solutions for
communications service providers, today announced that Icelandic operator
Og Fjarskipti, trading under the Vodafone brand, will overhaul its billing
system using FTS’ Leap(TM) Billing and Leap(TM) Business Control Engine
(Leap BCE) solutions, enabling next generation services with real time
customer interaction.
  

  Vodafone Iceland is a multi-play service provider, offering mobile,
fixed, internet and data services. The company will use FTS’ solutions as
the platform to support all current and future charging, billing and
real-time customer interaction needs as part of a renewal of its entire BSS
environment under a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm. In
addition, FTS will be responsible for overall project migration.
   

 The Leap solutions are based on Business Control Layer technology,
which is a software layer residing alongside the network/OSS and BSS
system. Using Business Control Layer, Leap solutions allow operators to
communicate with their customers in real-time, enabling new revenue
opportunities and enhanced customer experience thus addressing the two key
issues troubling operators today: revenue growth and retention.
   

“The solution from FTS is one of the most flexible, robust and cost
effective solutions available in the market,” said Gestur G. Gestsson, CTO,
Vodafone Iceland. “We are impressed by FTS’ ability to integrate its
billing and business control solutions within SOA architecture. I believe
this solution best meets our business and technical expectations.”
   

 ”This vote of confidence by a leading provider like Vodafone Iceland
clearly signals to the market FTS’ technological superiority,” said Norman
Tutnauer, FTS’ Vice President of Worldwide Sales. “Our Leap solutions
address all the needs of converged communication service providers such as
Vodafone Iceland, and support them as they continue to introduce advanced,
next-generation services.”
   

 FTS was recently voted the ‘Most Promising Company’ at the prestigious
2007 TeleStrategies Billing and OSS World industry event. The award was
presented to FTS as it was felt the company will have the biggest impact on
the sector in the coming year.

   
 

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