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October 2012

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OTT App Providers, Telcos and Cable "Think Different" About "Out of Region" Sales

October 15, 2012

It is no secret that app providers and telecom, mobile, satellite and cable service providers "think different" about their respective "customer" bases and prospects. All access providers necessarily must work within frameworks set by regulators on a country by country, state by state or locality by locality basis.

There are franchises, certificates, spectrum or other regulatory requirements for being in business. That necessarily leads access provider executives to instinctively and logically think about services they can sell to people and businesses within their authorized areas of lawful service.

"Unlimited" or Shared Data Plans Mostly are Marketing Platforms, at the Moment

October 1, 2012

The overwhelming majority of customers on AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon networks studied by NPD Connected Intelligence don't even use 2 GBytes worth of mobile data per month, which suggests most consumers do not need “unlimited” service plans.

For that matter, the new Verizon Wireless "Share Everything" plans seem unlikely to have serious end user repercussions, for the moment. The actual monthly differences in fees are rather slight, in many cases, compared to a traditional plan. The big changes will come in the future, as data consumption, on multiple devices, becomes a bigger issue for service providers and end users alike.