Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 100cfm who wrote (12984)	7/18/2001 2:56:33 AM
From: straight life	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 197374

Operators too desperate for 3G returns - analyst By Ray Le Maistre, Total Telecom 17 July 2001 totaltele.com Mobile operators with 3G debt burdens are being too aggressive with their plans to claw their license and build-out costs back, according to an analyst at London-based telecoms consultancy Schema. Speaking Tuesday at an industry discussion on How to bill for 3G services, organized by OSS (operations support system) vendor ADC, Lisa Danielsson said she was concerned "to see how operators are approaching this [their revenue strategies]. They want to recoup the money they have spent so quickly that the figures they expect to get back from content providers [which deliver their content across the mobile networks to users] is frightening. They are asking for a 40% or even 50% cut, and content owners are not prepared to give up that sort of amount," said Danielsson. And Teresa Cottam, of London-based billing specialist Chorleywood Consulting, agreed. "The content providers are appalled at how greedy the operators are," she told the meeting. Danielsson went on to say that Schema survey results had shown that people would be prepared to pay for mobile data services, but that users "would need to understand better how to use their mobile phones to do this - currently they don't." In terms of the services that would best deliver the revenues the operators so desperately crave, Danielsson added that one operator Schema had spoken to said "the killer application for 3G services will be killing time."