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Comment on Mobile Data Intelligence Increasing Marketing IQ of Mobile Operators by Johnny Russo

Johnny Russo — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:00:51 +0000

Hi Stefanos. Thank you for your comment. An app is not in the cards right now, but your idea is interesting. Thanks for the feedback.

Comment on Mobile Data Intelligence Increasing Marketing IQ of Mobile Operators by Stefanos Karakasis

Stefanos Karakasis — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:01:01 +0000

Why not take Sevenflow and make it an App for consumers? That is Social Business. You can eventually monitor their social buying process through marketing efforts & analysis. This way you are being ‘smart’ about gathering data as long as you are transparant.

Comment on Skype Users Amongst the Highest Consumers of Traditional Voice Services by Marc Tremblay

Marc Tremblay — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:13:20 +0000

Hi Paul, I tend to agree with you that there are a lot of opportunities to develop new revenue generation models. The revolution to come reminds me of what happened in the 80s and 90s: by time the astronomical revenues generated out of long distance calls became smashed by the abundance of newly deployed optical fiber networks and increased competition because of deregulations, conventional landline operators were already compensating with the revenues from a new generation of innovative services made possible by advanced network signalling: caller-id, 3-way conference calls, call forwarding, etc. That’s when the “intelligence” in the network really took precedence over the “network” itself… and that’s when we started to pay $9.95 month for services that cost virtually nothing in terms of network usage. The same paradigm needs to happen now in the context of the convergence of networks, devices, and content. The ”intelligent services” of tomorrow need to be developed now: how do influencers interact with their social networks? What are the next killer apps? What is that new emerging pattern in the services/content mix? Mobile Data Intelligence empowers agile mobile operators to detect and understand trends very early and to quickly validate winning strategies. Then, they can fully harness those trends and respond with radically innovative and appealing services, that work now. Thanks for your comment.

Comment on Skype Users Amongst the Highest Consumers of Traditional Voice Services by Paul Jenkins

Paul Jenkins — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:59:18 +0000

It’s kind of like the migration to TV from radio – It is unstoppable. Mobile providers need to become more like Apple, cannibalizing their own products, instead of like Microsoft which is being left behind because of their traditional way of looking at the world. Here in Canada, there is an oligopolistic mindset in the big mobile providers. They don’t want to break ranks (although the Government is apparently encouraging change.) So, they are loathe to break the formula that made them rich – charging by minutes. But this model is terminal – just bringing in so many profits that everyone is ignoring the signs. But this is similar to the “religious” experiences that Windows users have when they “convert” to Macs. They’ll never go back. There are sure to be some serious winners and losers in the changeover from the “per minute” model to the “unlimited internet calls “model”. If I were running a mobile phone business, I’d have a bunch of Ph.d Strategic analysts sitting around in a backroom “gaming” outcomes of various breaks away from the traditional “pre minute” model – to make sure that you have plans in place for various events. And seriously discuss whether you get to be the winner by breaking ranks first. Heavy talkers are also heavy influencers – and you need to keep these people loyal. They are repeat customers – you’ll figure out a way to sell them other stuff later – especially if trust is not broken.