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June 2016

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Voice Revenue Decline - Scary or Under Control?

June 28, 2016


In March, Chetan Sharma released a 2015 US Mobile Market update report.  There are many interesting points in this report, but one thing I want to talk about today is that voice revenues declined by 24% and messaging revenues declined by 18%.  Wow, that’s a lot.  And since the overall mobile market increased in the US, that means data service revenue is increasing quite a bit. 

WebRTC and Cloud-based PBX - Can.do

June 21, 2016

A few weeks ago I attended and spoke at ByNet Expo in Israel. I spoke in the telecom track about the “Agile Network.”  Part of what I was talking about was the value of WebRTC and NFV going forward in terms of the profound impact and changes these technologies will have on telecom. 

During this event, I had an opportunity to meet with a number of our customers. 

Cisco VNI Repot on IoT / M2M connectivity

June 14, 2016

The Internet of Things is all about connectivity of everything.  While some IoT connectivity will be from wired devices and sensors, much of it will be from mobile connections.  But how does one measure mobile IoT adoption? According to the February 2016 Cisco VNI report, measuring the growth of smarter end-user devices and M2M connections is a clear indicator of the growth of IoT. 

Most Forgotten App Development Best Practice

June 7, 2016

On April 19, Dialogic’s Alan Percy hosted a webinar on “Application Development Best Practices.”  To listen to the webinar, please click here.  While I was listening to that webinar, I had my Product Management hat on.  In my blogs, I typically write about what’s going on in the market, but today will be different. I’m going to get into my product management persona for a bit.

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