Three UK hails ongoing momentum in H1
Revenue at the UK-based operator increased 5% in the first six months of the year, but prepaid customer growth and roaming remain areas of concern.
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Amazon rumoured to be rummaging around Boost
Amazon is rumoured to be one of the parties interested in purchasing Sprint’s prepaid Boost, and while it might be a long-shot, all rumours eventually seem lead back to Amazon at some point.
Sprint/T-Mobile US merger set for a $3 billion boost
It looks like Sprint could trouser up to three billion bucks when it flogs its prepaid subsidiary Boost in a bid to placate antitrust authorities.
Prepaid market is an operator blind spot – research
Some new research commissioned by mobile financial services company Juvo has concluded operators are wasting loads of cash through prepaid churn.
T-Mobile gives prepaid customers the 5G luxury
T-Mobile has become the first US telco to commit the 5G euphoria to its prepaid customers, alongside unlimited plans which will feature Amazon Prime and Google One.
UK consumers are not convinced by zero rating gimmicks
The telcos want us to spend more money with them, that is a given, but it appears the latest move to bribe consumers with zero rating offers is not working in the UK.
Vodafone launches VOXI sub-brand to get ‘down with the kids’
Vodafone has launched a new SIM-only deal for people aged 25 and under. Welcome to the party VOXI, innit!
There are loads of mobile subscriptions – Ericsson
Ericsson has released its Mobility Report for the second quarter of 2017, and some of the statistics are somewhat surprising.
Three UK hopes to lure younger subscribers with Smarties
Three has seemingly set its sights on cash-conscious consumers with the introduction of a new mobile service, Smarty.
Verizon isn’t done yet as it adds 614k subscribers
Verizon has answered the challenge of T-Mobile posting an impressive 614,000 retail postpaid net additions.
EE rushes to extract marketing win from EU roaming cap
EE has announced it will remove roaming charges for customers in a new deal, which coincides with the introduction of new roaming charge caps across the European Union.
Turns out PAYG subscribers aren’t very loyal – who knew?
What’s the trick to creating loyalty for prepaid mobile subscriptions? Knowing who your customers actually are, apparently.
T-Mobile bags another 1.1m customers – can anyone stop the magenta army?
After Verizon struggled through Q1, it is becoming increasingly clear where its profits and customers have gone; T-Mobile has been pinching them again.
Vodafone gets into the data rollover game, for what it’s worth
UK operator Vodafone has seen fit to make a big deal about offering data rollover for its PAYG customers but it’s largely a waste of time.
How did Europe’s top 5 telcos measure up over Q3?
With the quarterlies crazy season over and done with Telecoms.com had a look back over the last couple of weeks to decide who the winners and the losers were out of the European telcos.
AT&T marketing team wins standing ovation for data throttling rebrand
AT&T has revealed a new feature for 2017 with its marketing team seemingly having great fun rebranding ‘Data Throttling’ to ‘Stream Saver’.
Juvo reckons it has solved the prepaid credit crunch
Much of the world is skint, but they still want to use mobile phones. This is the dilemma mobile finance startup Juvo has been created to address.
Survey Reveals the Future for Traditional Billing and IN Charging
A recent survey by Openet has compiled operators’ views on the future of traditional batch based billing for post-paid and Intelligent Network (IN) pre-paid charging infrastructures, highlighting some of the key challenges they have faced as well as their plans to replace these systems. Corine Suscens, senior marketing manager at Openet shares some of the findings exclusively with Telecoms.com.
Everything Everywhere sheds prepay customers
Everything Everywhere, the joint-venture between T-Mobile and Orange in the UK, has reported losses of one million pay-as-you-go customers since its formation in April last year. The company, which is jointly-owned by France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom, said that the results reflect consolidation and an increased focus on more profitable postpaid customers rather than full-on churn, citing contract adds of 752,000 over nine months.
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