strengthened Rewheel presence in Africa & Middle East


Rewheel and Sparkx Consulting joined forces under Rewheel's name.

Sparkx Consulting, the South Africa based mobile data specialists achieved unmatched track record in providing strategy and operational assistance to leading regional telecom players and major operator groups such as Zain and MTN.

Sparkx Consulting’s core competences include 3G & WiMax spectrum valuation, license acquisition, business planning, retail & wholesale proposition pricing as well as end-to-end marketing proposition implementation.

Rewheel decided to join forces with Sparkx Consulting as a response to the growing demand for consultants in Africa and Middle East who have in-depth expertise in both technology and commercial sides of running successful mobile data businesses and who can provide true and tangible help to operators to ensure sustainable profitability in face of the mobile data traffic surge and skyrocketing network capacity expenditures.

In addition to strengthening Rewheel’s project delivery capabilities in the African and Middle East markets, Rewheel’s Clients will also benefit from the specialist competences brought to the joint team by Sparkx Consulting’s recognized industry experts.

[12 October 2009]
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[21 May 2010]
Rewheel runs mobile data business case workshop during the WiMAX Global Congress
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[25 April 2010]
Rewheel in the International Herald Tribune on the profitability of HSPA+ and LTE
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[15 February 2010]
Rewheel on the economics of operators' LTE investments (CIOL magazine)
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[11 February 2010]
Rewheel on TeliaSonera's LTE deal (REUTERS)
"It gives the message to the market that not only NSN's portfolio matches the key technology selling points of the Chinese, but that NSN is also ready to match Huawei's commercial flexibility."
[13 January 2010]
Rewheel on Telenor's combined GSM/LTE network deal (FORBES Magazine)
"Their decision demonstrates that the economic benefits of moving to a combined infrastructure are simply too large to ignore"
[05 November 2009]
Rewheel commenting on NSN's restructuring (REUTERS)
"To match the commercial flexibility demonstrated by Chinese vendors, NSN had to cut back its costs"
[03 November 2009]
Rewheel on the surge of mobile data traffic (Telecom Genie)
Vendors face growing pressure from the operators to renegotiate the 'pay as you grow' network capacity pricing mechanisms
[28 October 2009]
Strengthened Rewheel presence in Africa & Middle East
Rewheel and Sparkx Consulting joined forces under Rewheel's name
[12 October 2009]
Rewheel on the unsustainability of current telecom infrastructure supplier pricing models (Cellular-News)
"If software license unit prices had been calibrated to the pre-mobile broadband era subscriber usage levels, there is a real chance that the incremental license fees paid to the suppliers will eventually exceed the incremental retail revenues that the operator gains by acquiring new mobile data users."
[02 September 2009]
Rewheel on the Swedish mobile broadband usage trends (Cellular-News)
"Rewheel points out that network operators must align their production costs and supply chain with the incremental revenue potential of mobile data."
[03 August 2009]