FXTrinity is engineered for high-performance applications such as TV voting. The platform can handle several hundred transactions per second. In addition, the platform has been designed to scale on demand. FXTrinity handled the world’s largest SMS TV voting event, Miss World, which involved 110 countries simultaneously voting. FXTrinity is composed of four key functional layers: [...]
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Mobile phone markets in Asia Pacific have been influenced by existing and new prepaid services in a number of ways. Countries with less technologically developed cellular markets and low penetration rates, such as Indonesia and India, have benefited from prepaid services. Following the economic crisis, the prepaid option has enabled customers to continue to use [...]
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
The eastern European mobile market achieved 88% penetration at end-2009, this is forecast to pass 91% during 2009. Annual growth will slow, but we expect penetration to exceed 94% in 2010 . Prepaid will be an important driver in this growth, with 60%-65% of net additions being captured by prepaid. We do not think it [...]
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
MobiMak launched its prepaid service MobiPlus in September 2000. Prepaid packages include a SIM card, MobiPlus voucher, handset instructions, and a basic range of VAS are distributed in MobiMak shops and over 200 authorised dealers. Voxtel launched the country’s first prepaid service TEMPO in April 2000. This service was successful in the Moldavian market, which [...]
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Slovenia has experienced tremendous cellular growth in the last two years to become the most highly penetrated market in Eastern Europe - 87% at end-2008. Prepaid has been a significant driver with 108% growth in the prepaid market in 2000ths. Mobitel launched its prepaid service in November 1998 and, despite being prepaid market leader, [...]
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Romania now has four mobile networks following the launch of Cosmoron, owned by OTE, in June 2000. The two leading players are MobiFon CONNEX, controlled by TIW, and MobilRom, owned by Orange. Prepaid is an important market driver in this poor eastern European country. Penetration was over 80% at end-2008, so it is at an [...]
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Era is Poland’s biggest operator by far and has the largest prepaid proportion. But Centertel is the fastest growing operator with 93.6% growth in 2000 and 23% market share. Its prepaid service POP offers a number of innovative services, these include: * SMS (the only Polish operator to do this for prepaid) * discounted [...]
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Prepaid has significantly driven growth in eastern Europe in 2000. Prepaid constituted nearly 40% of the total subscriber base of most top prepaid markets. Prepaid now accounts for 12.7 million subs in Eastern Europe, 46% of the total subscriber base. The market tripled in both 1999 and 2000. Eastern Europe is an interesting market, only [...]
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Overall growth in the western European mobile market has begun to slow, the region’s total customer base grew 57% in 2000, compared with 68% in 1999. At the same time, its prepaid market has doubled in size in 1999 and 2000. Prepaid users now make up 61% of the total mobile customers. As most of [...]
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Malta has the highest mobile growth rate in Europe–167% in 2000–although this is most likely as a result of its relatively low penetration (27% at end-2000). Etalk, the prepaid service of Vodafone Malta–until recently the sole operator, had 95,000 prepaid users at the end of March 2001, 88% of its base. Competition has recently come [...]
Thursday, August 20, 2009
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