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Overview
Takashi Mobile (TM) was created by a team of mobile professionals to work out new strategies for smarter ways for operators to deal with customer interaction and loyalty, and to deliver core communications services, information and applications through MVNOs.
In 2000, we formed a team of five to create and launch The Netherlands' first commercial MVNO for Dutch media venture Veronica with assets in television, radio, print media and internet properties. Following this initiative, founder Dan Armstrong has continued work in numerous other capacities, in consulting capacities for 22 projects for 16 operators, service providers, banks, technology groups and other companies with mobile aspirations in Europe, Asia, North America and Africa.
Specialties include business architecture, team management and strategic consulting, product development, market feasibility, design and set up of virtual operators and service providers, business planning, projects in new technologies, inter-operator relations, products, financial services and market feasibility, public presentation of new concepts and consensus-building. Extensive work in mobile telecommunications, new technologies and technology implementation, strategy, mobile banking/payments, NFC, DRM, usability and privacy issues, alliances, MVNOs (strategy, feasibility, planning, negotiations, architecture, marketing and implementation). A brief timeline including a few projects:
Veronica Mobile (2000-2001, NL),
Talkline Nederland (2001, NL),
Virgin Mobile Netherlands (2001, NL/UK),
easyMobile (2001, UK/NL),
Connect Austria GmbH/ONE (2001, AT),
Scarlet Telecom (2002, NL),
freeEnergy (energy service provider start-up) (2002, NL),
Connect Austria GmbH/ONE (launch of MVNO Tele2 Mobil, 2002, AT),
Sony Network Services GmbH (2002-03, AT),
MobilTel EAD (2002-03, BG),
ONE GmbH (strategy, MVNOs, launch of Starmap Mobile Alliance, 2003-04, AT),
XS4ALL BV (2004, NL),
Irdeto Access BV (2003-05, NL),
ONE GmbH (2005, AT),
SPVM B.V. (2005-06, NL),
Rabo Mobiel B.V. (2006-09, NL),
Irdeto (2009-10, NL),
Rabo Development (2009-10) | mobile banking and payments projects including NMB: National Microfinance Bank of Tanzania
some recent media:
→ M-Commerce World Summit 2010 (website), Singapore (Mar 2010)
→ Mobile Wallets & Payment Systems Middle East-Africa 2009 (website), Accara, Ghana (Dec 2009)
→ X|Media|Lab Amsterdam: "Public Media" (website), Amsterdam & Rotterdam (Nov 2009)
→ Mobey Forum: Utrecht Plenary Workshop 20-21 October 2009 (website), Utrecht (Oct 2009)
→ Future of Web 2.0 Meetup (link), Amsterdam (Sep 2009)
→ Digital Money Forum interview (Jul 2009)
→ Mobile Financial Services, Singapore (May 2009)
→ Immovator Cross Media Café (MP3), Hilversum (Feb 2009)
→ EMERCE Insight Banking, Amsterdam (May 2008)
→ Mobile Monday Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Mar 2008)
Amsterdam -- The Netherlands -- tel. +31 652 085 071