T-Mobile USA, or the value of pro-competition regulation

Author: Martyn Roetter
Published: 2017-11-19

Over the past few years, T-Mobile has become the third largest mobile operator in the U.S. after Verizon and AT&T, overtaking Sprint. As of September 2017, T-Mobile reported a customer base of 70.7 mn. It has enjoyed 18 straight quarters of growth of over 1 mn customers. In the first nine months of 2017 it generated gross revenues of €26.7 …

Data privacy survey results defy conventional wisdom

Author: Ricardo Tavares
Published: 2017-08-16

When we set out to research the data privacy practices of video service providers in Europe, Latin America and the U.S., we expected to find the most intensive use of personal data from subscribers to pay-TV services in the U.S. In my experience, whenever and wherever data privacy is under discussion, it is automatically assumed U.S. cable and telecom operators …

Mobile Consolidation: is four the new three?

Author: Michael Newlands
Published: 2015-10-05

A year can be a very long time in the world of telecoms. In September 2014 we wrote a blog headlined “Mobile Consolidation: is three the magic number?” Perhaps not magic, we thought, but there was a clear trend in most markets around the world toward three mobile operators, often tri- or quad-play operators, although there were notable exceptions. A …