Posts Tagged ‘Operators’

GetJar Ends White Label Stores

April 13th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

About a year ago, GetJar launched their White Label store program to stimulate downloads through operators. Now, the company announced it will be ending the program as consumers moved away from the operators.

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iPhone Missing for US Top 5 Smartphones

May 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | 1 Comment »

Though the iPhone from Apple remains very popular, Comscore has calculated that the device didn’t get Apple into a top 5 position for the US smartphone market in Q1 2010.

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Two New Operators will Launch in Holland

April 22nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

The Netherlands used to have 5 big operators. Due to acquisitions, only three where left and so, the government decided to put the old 2.6Ghz spectrums up for auction again which resulted in two new parties entering the market

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Google and Carriers Share Android Search Revenues

March 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

To persuade operators to continue taking up Android devices in their phone offerings, Google is offering operators a part of the revenues originating from search results on the devices.

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MWC: Schmidt on Google’s Mobile Ambitions

February 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Google invests in fiber and wireless networks, has its own mobile OS, started selling its own phone directly and gives Mobile top priority. Yet operators will have nothing to fear according to Eric Schmidt.

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MWC: Operators Unite Against the App Store

February 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Something interesting is about to happen as 24 operators world-wide have shown the intention to create a Wholesale Applications Community. This community is a new platform for app and game delivery.

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Glu Involves Operators in Crime

January 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | 2 Comments »

In a new attempt to win the hearts of the operators, Glu has started to include content/platform managers of several big channels in their latest ‘Crime Files’ games.

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CSMG: Games Deliver Growth for Fixed and Mobile Operators

March 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

CSMG released its report on the global video games market and its impact on operators. Fuelled by increased and faster networks, the dramatic growth in the market presents opportunities for operators to capture a greater share of the market.

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MWC: Cometa and End2End to Supply Indonesian Operators

February 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Cometa Wireless is a well established mobile games and content provider in the Indonesian market. Today, they announced that they will team up with End2End to supply their Indonesian operator channels.