Thought Leadership: Our Opinions
Acision has a number of experts who are regularly giving their opinion on the current hot topics and issues within the industry. Read all their latest thoughts here.
Letter to the Editor (Mobile Payments World)
15 January 2008
I was interested to see this week that there has been once again interest from within the mobile industry for operators to become ‘banks’ in order to give mobile banking a jump start. However, I believe that cooperation between the operator and the bank is the only way forward in the UK to make mobile payments work.
Is mobile in the middle of an identity crisis?
26 November 2007
Now well into its teenage years, mobile has gone through its rapid growth period and is beginning to consolidate. Operators have come out of this growth period and are taking stock of the situation within the industry.
Telco 2.0 3rd Executive Brainstorm: Messaging Innovation
12 November 2007
Recorded at the 3rd Telco 2.0 Executive Brainstorm held in London, Acision's Tom Veldman talks about messaging innovation and the transformation required for mobile operators to achieve sustainable and profitable growth.
A bit pipe; me…? No way!
03 October 2007
Fitting a trend that started with Apple’s iPhone, device vendors are now openly competing to take customer ownership from the mobile operator, trying to de-mote them to mere bit pipes. Acision believes that this attempt will fail ...
Is the SMS vote of no confidence a smokescreen...?
12 September 2007
Channel 4, the original pioneer of text voting is no longer offering its viewers the chance to vote or take part in interactive TV shows via SMS and only offers a phone-in voting mechanism via interactive voice recording (IVR). Steven van Zanen, VP Marketing, Intuitive Messaging, at Acision believes that the decision sounds more like a protest than a vote of no confidence.