Tuesday, April 27, 2010

ราคาใบอนุญาต 3G ที่อินเดียทะลุ 1,300 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐแล้ว

อินเดียเพิ่งเปิดให้ประมูลใบอนุญาต 3G ไปเมื่อวันที่ 9 เมษายนที่ผ่านมา อินเดียถือเป็นตลาดที่มีอัตราการเติบโตของผู้ใช้บริการรวดเร็วที่สุดโลก โดยแต่ละเดือนจะมีผู้ใช้เพิ่มขึ้นราว 20 ล้านราย จึงไม่แปลกที่ราคาของใบอนุญาตที่ครอบคลุมทั่วประเทศจะไต่ระดับขึ้นไปสูงถึงใบละ 1,300 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐแล้ว (ข้อมูล ณ วันที่ 19 เมษายน ซึ่งเป็นวันที่ 7 ของการประมูล ผ่านมาแล้ว 40 รอบ) ไม่รู้จะไปจบกันที่เท่าไหร่

ที่มา - Mobile Business Briefing

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Unprecedented Data Usage

Unprecedented data usage เป็นคำที่ AT&T เรียกปัญหาปริมาณการใช้งาน data สูงอย่างไม่เคยมีมาก่อน (หรืออาจเรียก congestion, network choking, backhaul choking, ฯลฯ) ปัญหานี้ส่งผลกระทบต่อทั้งโครงข่ายและลูกค้าของ AT&T เอง

Friday, February 26, 2010

Time-based vs. Volume-based Pricing

For Thai market, awaiting for 3G auction, data service is quite new to majority of users. It's actually also new to operators since there are two camps for the data service charging scheme. One is Time-based, where customers are charged per minute. Another is Volume-based, where customers are charged per megabyte.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

O2 and Orange UK

Recent survey by Siroda (and commissioned by O2) reported that O2 was the fastest operator on average in the UK. While the results were more mixed throughout the country, Orange seemed to be at the bottom of the table.

For those who are not familiar with UK mobile market, there're 5 incumbents, which are, sorted by number of subscribers at the end of 2009: O2 (Telefonica) - 21.3m, Vodafone - 19.1m, T-Mobile - 16.7m, Orange - 16.3m, and 3 (Hutchison) - 4.9m. The first 4 are the incumbents since 2G era. The last one has entered the market with 3G only network since 2003.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Thailand's mobile market overview - Spectrum

You are strongly encouraged to take a look at this blog's disclaimer before reading this post.
Disclaimer: While every reasonable effort is made to ensure accuracy of the information provided on this blog, no guarantees for the accuracy of information are made.

Spectrum. One of the fundamental elements for mobile services. In Thailand, the most populous band is located around 1800 MHz, as shown in the picture below. The "standard" spectrum configurations specified by 3GPP (a.k.a. E-UTRA Operating Bands) are shown in grey with band's number indicated. Thailand's spectrum assignments are shown in colors. The 1800 MHz band is used in Thailand for providing GSM services. DTAC has major portion of the spectrum, 2x49.6 MHz out of 2x75 MHz resource. True Move and Digital Phone Company (DPC, an AIS subsidiary) have 2x12.6 MHz, each. Note, again, that none of these operator is the owner of the spectrum. They are concessionaires of State Enterprise CAT Telecom. DTAC has been in a concession since 1991. The latter two companies started in 1997 and 1998, respectively.







Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Thailand's mobile market overview - ARPU

Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) is basically the total revenue divided by the number of subscribers. It is the amount of money, on average, that a user is willing to pay to operator each month. From this view, the ARPU is therefore an indicator telling operators the quality of subscribers they have gained. As we have already known from the previous post that the number of connections reported by operators does not necessarily equal to the number of subscribers, using the ARPU calculated from the number of connections might be distorted. However, it can be used perfectly in relative view, i.e. when we compare amongst operators.