Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Just days after a monstrous US launch, Apple's iPhone is being readied for its European onslaught with news coming out of the UK that Telefonika's mobile phone subsidiary O2 will be the exclusive carrier for the UK. If a Financial Times report , which claims to have inside knowledge, is correct then the big loser in Europe will be the continent's largest carrier Vodafone.
According to the report, O2 will be the UK iPhone
carrier, Orange will look after France, while T-Mobile will get the nod
from Apple in Germany.
As the FT points out, ironically Vodafone may miss out on the initial
iPhone business because it's 3G network is too advanced for the current
2.5G handset Apple has just brought to market.
If the report is true, some may consider that Apple is taking a bit of
a risk by releasing a new mobile product based on old generation
technology in the advanced European market which is already accustomed
to a more advanced level of mobile telecommunications than the US.
Europeans are also accustomed to buying their phones on subsidised
plans with minimal or no upfront cost - something that Apple reportedly
has no intention of doing with iPhone.
In Apple's favor, however, is the almost unbelievable response to the
iPhone's US release. Early indications appear to show that US consumers
are not viewing the iPhone as another mobile phone or even smartphone
but an entirely new type of multifunction communications and
entertainment device. Whether European consumers respond in a similar
fashion remains to be seen. If so, then Steve Jobs will feel confident
that his new toy is ready to take the world by storm.
David Bass
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