Monitoring the Friday Telecom Twittering

These are the current conversations I am following today on Twitter. They are the "what's happening" in mobile that is keeping me interested and tuning my analysis at the moment.

@sesemic is talking about Virgin Mobile Canada as the fifth outlet for iPhone sales.

@wirelessbroad is following the use of netbooks as this big push for mobile broadband.

The move to volume-sell and market computers is a major step for operators used to selling tightly specified handsets under long-standing commercial relationships. To ensure that this move is profitable, operators need to be alive to the risks and to maximise the opportunities for market share growth, pull-through revenue and data service ARPU.

Fair enough, but I'm more interested in what's being put on netbooks. What applications are the big heat-seeking missiles for users right now?

@andrewparkerft is reporting on what he's hearing at the FT telecoms conference and he points out that 3, the mobile provider, won't feel competition from a drop in market participants from five to four. He also, interestingly, points out that Etisalat warns that "network sharing" is urgently needed in Africa.

@Blackipresnews says that Deutsche Telekom is looking for US partners to help grow the T-mobile network, which is building out its HPSA+ network following the launching of that network in the US.