You wouldn’t believe who I had in the back of my cab the other day. Written on November 19, 2008, by admin.
During his keynote speech at the GSMA Asia Congress in Macau, Chairman of the GSMA, Rob Conway, gave us all an idea what’s on his Christmas list for Santa this year:
“Open up the lower spectrum,” Mr. Conway demanded of the world’s governments. “LTE depends on harmonized spectrum, LTE is the future, Wimax is a sideshow to the main event.” The lower-band frequencies are wasted on TV, he opined, give them to the telcos.
Stop investment crippling regulation in Europe. No more heavy handed pricing interference. I almost expected him to parrot Woodrow-Wilson at this point: ‘the Business of Mobile Operators is Business.’
Spend on infrastructure to get through the recession – invest in your network and new spectrum auctions (this after telling us that USD 2.1 trillion of telecoms debt is coming due in the next three months).
Price chips for new markets and business models. Manufacturers should enable all devices for Near Field Communications (NFC). Connect the unbanked - realise the mobile wallet/credit card.
As he’s the point man for 80% of the world’s Mobile Network Operators, you wouldn’t really expect to hear anything different from Mr. Conway. What could he say that would surprise us?
Having inveigled us with talk of the UK Operator’s new audience measurement pilot, Mr. Conway let slip that he’s been doing some market research of his own. Only the other day, he’d been riding in the back of a London Taxi, the cabbie was busy surfing the net on his new O2 iPhone (as 90% of iPhone users are, alledgedly, wont to do, though perhaps not whilst driving). This cabbie had always been scared of the PC and hadn’t realised the power and potential of the Internet until he bought his iPhone: “ I just push the button and it opens.” This, Mr. Conway told us, was the power of a good UI. Well strike us down, we’d never realized that – as one, those of us at the back of the class rolled our eyes.
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