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christianborrman .com Director of Virtuser, Mobile Innovation Consultancy and an associate with various consultancies, including Engine's Transform, and has spoken, chaired and panelled at 3GSM, MVNO, FMC, Mobile Internet, and other major conferences, and has written for many technology publications, including a report on MVNOs published by Pyramid Research, which became a top 5 best seller. Previously he was a consultant at Mason Analysys, creating some of the first Virtual Internet Service Providers (VISP) and Mobile Virtual Networks (MVNOs) and well as working on the then kindling FMC projects around convergence. A keen mountain and road cyclist, runner and now swimmer; presently training for the 201o Olympic Triathlon in Hyde Park London on 25th July, rasing money for Marie Curie Cancer Care Christian has most recently been working on Telefonica / O2 app store, a mobile app strategy for a major handset manufacturer, the BAA Heathrow App on all major mobile platforms, three major MVNO developments and the Vodafone 360 platform, H1 and M1 devices as well as managing showcase mobile apps for the store like Bloomberg, AccuWeather, Tube Exits and More onto various platforms... Christian chaired the MVNO World Congress 2010 and 2009 and spoke at Mobile Advertising 2009, as well as Mobile Internet 2009 and most recently spoke at Mobile Internet Portal Strategies conference, 20-21st May 2008 in London. |Recent published article: UMA dead end, first published 11 March 2005, republished 11/03/2008 posted by Christian Borrman 11:25pm 09/03/08 updated 06:35am 23/07/10 A web resource on my corner of the technology industry, which covers:
My blogs, contributions and ramblings Mobile Virtual Network Blog The Mobile Virtual Network is still in its infancy; the truth is that SIMs and modules will be in more and more devices, and most will be owned or run by MVNOs. Read More Fixed-Mobile Convergence I started pushing convergence in 2000 and in 2001 put my money where my mouth was and started the first company that did convergence as we know it now... and the patents i took out are still to make me money, but its time will come! Read More Mobile Killer Application A fork of the On Device portal site, more On Device Portal On device portals can often achieve many of the goals that many companies first set out to achieve through an MVNO, most recently Disney and ESPN have given up the MVNO fight and gone the ODP route. Read More Mobile Blog, moblog? Not sure if it should be called a moblog, mobile weblog, mobiblog? But anyway, blogging from a mobile is actually quite easy: moblog but keeping up to it is more challenging. Top Gadget ... Gadgets, trying to capture elements of digital living that make a difference, from a home network that let's you access and share your data securely, to ergonomic home computing to cameras to record it all. Very much still under construction! Read More Recent articles Reportedly Nokia is planning a Hardware MVNO in Japan, which would push the OVI portal services within this market. As correctly pointed out in this article, by Rethink wireless that Nokia has found it difficult to enter the Japanese market due to the operators' insistence on using i-mode type services, these services will not necessarily be a barrier to the success of a hardware and on device portal MVNO, read more Nokia Hardware MVNO posted by Christian Borrman 19:26pm 24/11/08 The MVNO has been and continues to be a slow beast. One MVNO model that is heavily overdue is the Dell MVNO, having already ventured into deals with carphone warehouse and Vodafone for laptops with mobile or fixed broadband, the onslaught of the new sub £300 laptops is making read more Dell hardware MVNO
Apple Global MVNO Apple have pulled off the greatest MVNO model to date... read full article Apple MVNO Mobile Applications & On Device Portals The dust has now settled on the Carling Reading and Leeds music festivals, and the press coverage from Nokia's mobile festival guide is astounding, just by googling "mobile festival guide" you can get an idea. Moreover, the intelligence gathered, from what pages people see, where they decided to send to a friend, what handsets and what networks the core audience were on, are all vital Mobile CRM information for Nokia, arguably achieving ROI just on the customer insight alone... More on my mobile applications page Future of Mobile Payments I think there will always be a place for mobile operator based billing, and that these other methods will counterintuitively ensure premium mobile billing's survival; as other ways to pay with your mobile come to bear, they should force mobile operators to accept a more palatable sub-10% commission in order to compete a premium mobile payment. This will allow the other 95% of applications for premium SMS payment that have come and gone because of the silly 40-60% margin operators are still charging today, all come to the forefront and use premium mobile services for a large amount of ad-hoc, spontaneous micro payments and purchases... Continued on ecademy mobile applications forum Mobile Outsourcing... what is so special about it? I have tried outsourcing at least part of
these developments on many occasions without success. The main problems
are: Mobile Virtual Networks: RE: Why Europe's Mobile Startups Sing I was sent this email by a client, one of those nice comforting articles that make you feel you have made the right choice by doing many of the things that are in the article as they preach is right, with the added smugness of feeling you are doing something a little extra they have not twigged yet! They are right in that one MVNO model is the low cost route, however there are more important keys I have seen, from behind the scenes, that have made or broke MVNOs in Europe... continued on mobilevirtualnetwork.co.uk Blog This will soon be the link to my blog, even if I have to update it from my mobile, in the meantime, my linkedin profile is here... and a list of other sites I have written in the meantime. posted by Christian Borrman 10:47am 17/09/07 links Contact / Comment ©Copyright 2001-2010 Christian Borrman, All Rights Reserved. Reproduction Prohibited |