Andrew Parker reviews 3GSM
Andrew Parker, the FT’s telecoms editor, talks to Daniel Garrahan about the main talking points to emerge from 3GSM 2007
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The 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona combines the world’s largest exhibition for the mobile industry with a cutting edge congress featuring the most prominent chief executives representing mobile operators, vendors and content owners from across the world.
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3GSM in numbers
Techblog: At trade shows like 3GSM there are always a huge number of statistics and forecasts flying around as executives try to convince their customers and investors of the huge market opportunities ahead. This might be a fun list to keep and check in a couple of years to see if any of it came true.
Viral marketing at 3GSM
Techblog: Internet companies such as Google, Yahoo, MySpace and YouTube are a powerful but largely unseen presence at the 3GSM World Congress.
Sarin looks to Indian subscriber growth
Arun Sarin, chief executive of Vodafone, has spoken in Barcelona about the scale of the growth opportunity the company has in India after winning control of Hutchison Essar.
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