Microsoft OneApp – bringing mobile applications to the masses?
Detecon Analysis and Strategic Recommendations
Published: 11.03.2010

OneApp holds a great potential to drive the market for mobile apps until smartphones become more widespread. The major challenge for Microsoft and its partners will be the establishment of an effective surrounding ecosystem, consisting of network operators, phone manufacturers and application developers.
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Is iPhone strangling mobile operators’ network performance?

Published: 23.02.2010

In this Briefing we’ll discuss how mobile operators can avoid being reduced to simple bit pipes for the internet in this age of Web 3.0, and what effects the iPhone will have on the mobile network operators’ bandwidths and their revenue streams.
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Costing System Maturity in Telecommunications Companies
Results of a Detecon Survey
Published: 04.02.2010

The objective of this survey is to give a brief overview of the maturity of cost accounting systems at European telecommunications operators by focusing on the following aspects: “What is the position of the costing department in the company?”, “What information does the costing department currently deliver every month?”, “What are the deliverables used for?” and “What tools are used to produce this information?”.
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Honeycomb Management Excellence
Sustainable performance excellence in procurement
Published: 01.02.2010

Being a CPO these days is not as comfortable as it used to be some 20 or 30 years ago. Almost everything has changed since then. Fierce challenges have come up from beyond the horizon. For the CPO it is therefore most important to know which fields of action he/she has to face and what measures to take. With its honeycomb model Detecon presents a holistic view for the CPO on all relevant fields of action, the honeycomb model.
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WiMAX
Window of Opportunity
Published: 20.01.2010

WiMAX was the first technology to come to market as a candidate for the fourth generation (4G) transmission standard, after 3G lagged behind expectations in terms of performance and capacity. Its appearance created great excitement in the industry.
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