Publications

According to this article in PwC's Mobile Technologies Index series, the smartphone seems to acquire more cognitive capabilities with each major product release—regardless of the OEM.

This study explains why, more than ever before, telcos are challenged with the need to evolve beyond network connectivity and provide distinctive service offerings.

According to this new article in PwC's Mobile Technologies Index series, thinner, lighter, larger and sturdier displays with improved resolution, touch sensitivity and power efficiency will enable many mobile innovations through 2015.

In this issue, we look at small cells and how enhancing the capacity and coverage of mobile networks and using existing spectrum more effectively can help operators meet the rising demand for data services and speed.

Communications CEOs are less confident this year about the global economy and they’re worried about threats like the break-up of the Eurozone or trouble at home. They're also ready to move on the M&A front, all while maintaining a fierce focus on customers–how to get them, and then how to keep them happy.

According to this new article in PwC's Mobile Technologies Index series, improvements in image sensors, MEMS and software will enable future-generation smartphones to provide new use cases and new capabilities classified as machine vision.

PwC examines revenue opportunities in channels or markets that telecom operators are already in or are exploring, but where they may not yet have quite the right focus or strategies.

This PwC study examines the ways that telecom operators worldwide continue to upgrade their network technologies to improve performance and increase capacity, even while confronting the challenge of maintaining multiple generations of technologies and networks.

This edition of Communications Review examines the social and economic impact that telecommunications have had on Africa over the past decade and discusses such issues as network performance, mobile payments, and how industry CEOs feel about the future.

In this PwC-commissioned report from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), patients, doctors and payers share their views on mHealth. Find out what they told us, and learn more about the potential of mobile health in developed and emerging markets, the challenges, and the impact on stakeholders.

This PwC paper explains the four key reasons telecom companies allocate capital inefficiently. It presents 12 attributes that telecom companies that allocate capital efficiently share and shows how telecoms operators can identify and correct their capex problems.

This PwC quarterly journal for communications executives showcases some of the best global practices and leading-edge thinking regarding management and financial issues in the communications industry.

PwC analyzes the impact of the new IASB/FASB accounting rules on revenue in the telecom industry and discusses how the industry might respond.

In bringing together this collection of interviews, we too have crossed new frontiers for Communications Review, focusing less on how we in the industry perceive success, and more on how others see us in the context of our broader contribution to society.

In bringing together this collection of interviews, we too have crossed new frontiers for Communications Review, focusing less on how we in the industry perceive success, and more on how others see us in the context of our broader contribution to society.

In bringing together this collection of interviews, we too have crossed new frontiers for Communications Review, focusing less on how we in the industry perceive success, and more on how others see us in the context of our broader contribution to society.

PwC analyzes the impact of the new IASB/FASB accounting rules on leasing in the telecom industry.

Each of the pieces in our latest issue approaches a pervasive theme from a different angle, starting with an article on the strategic challenges and imperatives facing the communications industry going forward; moving through a series of five interviews with key stakeholders who are driving and enabling the industry to cross new frontiers in society at large. In bringing together this collection of interviews, we too have crossed new frontiers for Communications Review, focusing less on how we in the industry perceive success, and more on how others see us in the context of our broader contribution to society.

Reporting on the performance of operating segments continues to be a critical area of focus for investors and regulators. As telecommunications companies adopt the new International Financial Reporting Standard, IFRS 8 Operating Segments, they may face challenges in defining and reporting segmental information.

Reporting on the performance of operating segments continues to be a critical area of focus for investors and regulators. As telecommunications companies adopt the new International Financial Reporting Standard, IFRS 8 Operating Segments, they may face challenges in defining and reporting segmental information.

The issuance by the International Financial Reporting Interpretations Committee (IFRIC) of IFRIC 13, Customer Loyalty Programmes, has implications for telecom operators. This publication considers the accounting and the practical implications that arise from the guidance in IFRIC 13.

PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Telecommunications Industry Accounting Group (TIAG) brings together PwC telecom specialist knowledge worldwide to help our clients. Our role is to help operators interpret and implement new and complex standards that have a particular impact on our industry.