Category Archives: Telecom

iPad Killed Wireless Unlimited Data Plans

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Jose Miguel Cansado

With the coming of the iPad, we started to hear about MiFi, tethering and mobile hotspots. The case for the MiFi is simple. You pay a single data plan for your MiFi (or your smartphone with tethering), and there you … Continue reading →

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How much is an Internet Visitor Worth?

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Google makes $18 a year for each unique visitor. Facebook makes roughly $3. Three observations from the chart: 1)  Google is far ahead of the others in monetizing their visitors. A sign that search advertising is much better paid than … Continue reading →

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Who said the Telcos did not know about Media?

Posted on July 31, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

The Chart of the day of  The Business Insider a few days ago is self-explanatory. Bundling very high speed Internet Access with TV is winning the battle. Will they be able to sustain it against the coming Hulu’s? This can … Continue reading →

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In CommunicAsia 2009: Making Mobile TV Work

Posted on July 31, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

It is more than one motnh ago that I was in CommunicAsia  for a Mobile TV panel. Here are the main points we discussed about how to make the business case for Mobile TV work. Free-to-Air channels are a must … Continue reading →

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DVRs Go Mainstream, but for how long?

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

The Silicon Alley Insider Chart of the Day (above) shows the great curve of DVR (Digital Video Recorders)  adoption in US, where almost one in three households already have one. This poses a threat to the advertising model of broadcast … Continue reading →

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Back from MWC 2009 in Barcelona

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

After a few weeks traveling I am back in KL after the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. I was planning to link any comprehensive report  from the blog-sphere with the highlights from last week, but strangely enough I did not find any. … Continue reading →

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Broadband at 1 Gbps in 2012!!

Posted on February 4, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Koreans and Japanese enjoy today broadband connections at 100 Mbps. Not being enough, the Korean Communications Commission wants to boost the country broadband infrastructure to provide 1 Gbps service in 2012!! That  is a tenfold increase from today’s speed and … Continue reading →

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Telecom Slowdown? Seven Reasons for Hope

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

We have seen recent announcement of job cuts in almost all Telecom and Tech companies, including Microsoft and Google only to name those that are new to those announcements. GigaOm recently echoed a recruitment firm report that estimated almost 200,000 … Continue reading →

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Telefonica Impressive Performance and Spanish Telecos

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Via El Economista I found this table that shows the impressive performance of Telefonica over the past eight years since Cesar Alierta took over the CEO position from Juan Villalonga. Telefonica has gone from 15th place in 2000 to be … Continue reading →

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Welcome 2009!

Posted on January 2, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Year 2008 will be remembered for the financial crash but also as the year when iPhone 3G confirmed Apple’s revolution of mobile phones. RIM also strengthened their corporate position with new multimedia capable models and Android saw its first handset … Continue reading →

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