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Category Archives: Mobile Youth
Virgin Mobile RSA blames the market…but where’s the entrepreneurial flare?
This weekend in the South African ‘Sunday Times’ newspaper Virgin Mobile South Africa CEO Jonathan Marchbank blamed Vodacom and MTN for his firm’s lack of success, saying their ‘unregulated, anti-competitive behaviour’ was making it difficult for smaller players to enter … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Mobile Youth, MVNOs
Tagged Africa, mobile markets, Mobile Virtual Network Operators
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Is Branson losing his way in the Middle East and Africa?
When is a MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) not an MVNO; and does it matter? Or maybe the real question is: what is in a name?What got me pondering this particular question this morning was the news that ictQatar (the … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Emerging Markets, Middle East, Mobile Markets, Mobile Youth, MVNOs
Tagged Africa, emerging markets, mobile markets, Mobile Network Operators, MVNOs
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What’s more important to young people: food or their mobile?
Just how many young people make up the mobile youth market? According to the MobileYouth 2011 study, there are some 1.8 billion young people who own a mobile device. Put another way, if all the mobile youth lived in a … Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Markets, Mobile Operators, Mobile Youth
Tagged emerging markets, Mobile Network Operators, mobile spend, mobile youth, smartphones, youth market
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