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April 2016

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LTE Market Status, the Tie-In to VoLTE, and the Importance of 3G Interoperability

April 26, 2016

On March 7, the GSA put out a press release confirming that 2015 ended with over 1 billion LTE subscriptions.  This is a hockey stick unlike other mobile hockey sticks.  And if you want to see the GSA LTE subscription hockey stick, you can get it if you register at the site.  Basically, 1 in 7 mobile connections worldwide are now LTE, and the rate of LTE subscriptions is accelerating. 

Fax Is...

April 19, 2016

  • Dying
  • Enduring
  • Dead
  • Growing
  • Some old technology from before 2001
  • Older than a phone call
  • Outdated
  • Old School
  • A Legal Document
  • Some strange word that is from the stone age
  • Something I still pay attention to

All of these things are correct about fax depending on your point of view or use case.  And yes, it is still a meaningful part of the Dialogic business which is why I pay attention to it.  We have had some new significant wins in 2015 as TDM switched over to FoIP.

To understand fax is to understand business from 20 years ago. 

RCS Re-Invigoration Reality

April 12, 2016

But will the hype this time be justified?  RCS has been slowly building momentum mostly because VoLTE has been slowly building momentum.  VoLTE is IP-based voice/video on an LTE / IMS network, and RCS adds IP-based messaging services that are also an evolution to legacy SMS and MMS messaging.  So it makes sense that RCS started to be deployed once VoLTE started to be deployed.  

Is the RCS Re-Invigoration just more HYPE???

April 5, 2016


Last week
, I explored the RCS re-invigoration due to the Google announcement of RCS support. And given that the GSMA historically has supported RCS heavily, and anything involving Google would get huge interest and press, it comes as no surprise that we saw quite of bit of hype about RCS coming out of the GSMA during MWC.

However, also remember we saw much hype in 2012 when Joyn, the GSMA branding of RCS, was announced.  Remember, this was the time when the likes of WhatsApp and Facebook and other instant messaging smartphone apps were starting to very seriously erode texting revenues. 

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