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Keith Mallinson

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Mallinson: It's time to flip the pricing models for voice and data

Flipping the way mobile voice and data are priced is a bold and yet essential move. Mobile operators can now benefit from and embrace increasing use of all kinds of in-house and OTT services and applications.

Mallinson: Spectrum auctions need to generate investment, not just government revenue

The trick in auction design is to encourage sufficient competition among bidders while also ensuring that there are adequate incentives for the operators and their financial backers to build out networks rapidly and on a widespread basis.

Mallinson: Mobile broadband - thrice as much at half the price

Charging a premium for LTE, as EE is currently doing, is unsustainable. Instead; stoking mobile broadband demand with lower and lower-priced LTE is most essential.

Mallinson: No signs of collateral damage in smartphone patent wars

No market is more successful, and yet also based on standards-essential patents and other patented technologies, than that for these smart devices. You'll find no evidence of stifled innovation or market blocking in smart devices under the Christmas tree this year.

Mallinson: Will the UK get it right with broadband deployment?

Broadband needs to be brought to everybody, almost everywhere they go. This includes at home, at work and on the move with mobile devices. What we need most from policy makers is that they ensure minimally acceptable broadband speeds and service levels to virtually everybody, no matter where they are or what devices they choose to use.

Mallinson: Spectrum licensing remains the key to LTE deployment

Spectrum licensing should incentivise LTE rollouts with the kinds of deployment obligations used in Germany and Russia, and enforcement including significant penalties for breaching those conditions, rather simply seeking to maximise financial proceeds in auction.

Mallinson: Operators should cut opex, not capex

With introduction of the first mobile networks worldwide, mostly on a national monopoly or duopoly basis and with cheap spectrum in the 1980s and 1990s, profitability and payback on investments

Mallinson: Would Vodafone put Verizon Wireless' free cash flow to better use?

The question of whether or not and when Verizon Wireless will resume regular dividend payments is a long-running strain between the company's parents Verizon Communications and Vodafone, and it

Mallinson: What will Google do with Motorola Mobility?

Google's proposed $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility is ostensibly for the hoard of 17,000 issued patents and a further 7,500 pending, so why keep a handset manufacturer that is merely

Mallinson: Android's midlife crisis comes early

As with child actors and pop stars that hit the big time while still very young, Google with its Android operating system is found lacking versus more mature players Apple, Microsoft and even