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    Iliad’s rivals face tough battle - FT.com
    ▻http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7785790a-13dc-11e3-9289-00144feabdc0.html | #paywall #Iliad #Free #telecoms #France

    At the time, other operators had hundreds of different mobile offers, confusing customers while making it expensive to train sales staff. When it launched mobile services, Iliad came in with only two plans.
    Rivals have responded by slashing costs. Last week, Bouygues said that its second-quarter operating profit increased 10 per cent after it reduced spending. SFR has streamlined its operations and reduced staff numbers as it tries to cut €500m in expenses by the end of next year.
    The two companies have also announced their intention to start sharing networks in what would be the first such deal in France. Meanwhile, Orange is trying to cut €600m in costs this year.

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    • @thibnton
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      Europe has paid a price for losing its #mobile lead
      ▻http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/bdb9a442-1485-11e3-a2df-00144feabdc0.html

      Silicon Valley and Steve Jobs defeated efforts by operators to maintain the mobile world as a walled garden

      Several things made a difference.

      One was regulation and standard-setting, which initially favoured Europe but came to benefit the US. Europe grabbed an early lead in mobile because the EU mandated the GSM operating standard and countries awarded national licences to three or four competitors, enabling a competitive but orderly market.

      The US, by contrast, handed out a patchwork of local licences for cellular and did not impose any technology standard. It took a long period of industry consolidation and conversion to common technology, led by pioneers such as Craig McCaw, to create order.

      That put the US behind on its rollout of second-generation and then third-generation technology. By the time 4G arrived in 2011, not only had standards been unified in the form of the LTE system but regulators had also allowed the US market to be dominated by cash-rich Verizon and AT&T (before blocking the latter’s bid for T-Mobile’s US arm).
      Meanwhile, European companies were squeezed by overpaying for 3G licences.

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