Free articles: IT & telecoms

• Non-voice services to engine Russian mobile market May 2007

  Russian mobile market continues to grow despite a penetration rate of over 100%. Mobile operators have started to redirect commenced to reformulate their market strategies towards increasing ARPU and customer retention. Non-voice services are gaining in importance. 3G investments, currently being planned by the key…

• Polish telecoms sector in 2007: increased competition February 2007

  The value of the Polish Information and communication technology market will near PLN 73bn in 2007, according to PMR (www.pmrcorporate.com), a leading research and consulting firm in Central and Eastern Europe. The greater part of this sum will be generated by the telecoms sector, whose revenues in Poland are more than…

• ICT sector in Russia: the growth trend continues February 2007

  PMR (www.pmrcorporate.com), a leading research and consulting firm in Central and Eastern Europe, has launched ICT Update Russia, a new biweekly publication tracking key trends and developments in the Russian IT and telecoms sectors.

• mBank mobile a surprise, but no revolution January 2007

  mBank, an on-line retail bank owned by BRE Bank, has launched, in mid-December, a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), making it the first company in Poland to do so. This might be regarded as a surprise, as for months a number of companies have declared that they wanted to set up a virtual operator, while mBank managed to…

• IT and technology distributor management in Poland December 2006

  In the 1990s the author set up a number of technology distribution companies in Poland, some of which remain are market leaders. By advising manufacturers and exporters PMR is now in the role of “poacher turned gamekeeper”. A well managed and effective distributor network is an intelligent and low cost way to…