Following on from my post yesterday on operator slowness to market, there’s news that T-Mobile are, in fact, creating an application store that will allow third party applications to be easily provisioned.
The strange bit is…
"the exact details of the revenue share depend on the intensity of the app’s data consumption. The more bits an app […]

There’s an interesting story at Valista regarding the time taken for operators to implement new products and services…
"A survey commissioned by Valista and conducted at the Building Blocks 2008 conference held last week found that over 86 percent of the industry insiders interviewed believe that it should take less than a month to launch new […]

I have been developing some apps that need to act differently when they are roaming. The problem was how to test this. I needed a ‘foreign’ SIM card which didn’t seem to be much of a problem.
However, looking deeper, I realised that most of the ‘international’ travel SIMs actually have a UK number - […]

Dean Bubley’s latest post on Operator-specific vs. Vanilla handsets describes how Dean has spotted Carphone Warehouse selling vanilla rather than operator branded handsets.
An anonymous comment from a CPW employee says this is…"because it is easier to carry and not sell out of a generic handset also that economies of scale are realised fully when we […]

Last night’s MoMo London, at Thomson Reuters, was on Monetisation through Advertising. There were presentations by Ray Anderson (Bango), Shan Henderson (Vodafone), Claire Valoti (Mindshare) and Russell Buckley (Admob).
Here are some points I took away from the event…

From an advertising agency perspective, there are currently too many layers/parties needed to get things done.
The current high […]

If you live in the UK, there some some great deals on 3 at the moment.
Firstly, they are offering the Skypephone for only £39.99. I reviewed this innovative phone last October. Earlier this year I spoke to someone involved with the Skypephone launch at 3 who, without specifying actual numbers, said that 3 has been […]

One problem I come up against on nearly every project is the provisioning of end users’ phones with Internet access points. Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola (needs registration) have online wizards that send configuration messages to your phone. With other manufacturers things get more tricky as settings often have to be configured manually on a […]