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February 2017

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What's Going on at MWC 2017

February 28, 2017

I’ve been at Mobile World Congress one day so far.  5G is everywhere and around every corner and under every rock.  Can’t get away from it.

It’s also clear that I was right about seeing IoT and Cloud messaging everywhere.

How Service Providers Can Avoid Becoming A Bit-Pipe

February 21, 2017

I was recently talking to STL Partners / Telco 2.0 and we had a discussion about service providers now facing the similar disruption from over-the-top (OTT) players in enterprise communications as they saw with consumers. It’s an interesting issue. The “bring your own” app phenomenon has started, and enterprises are starting to see their  employees bringing WhatsApp and WeChat to the office to use for work, similar to how I brought non-enterprise Skype to the office to use.  WhatsApp has even announced business integration plans.

What to Expect at MWC 2017

February 14, 2017



Mobile World Congress is coming up soon and it’s always fun to speculate on industry marketing trends one might expect to see.  First of all, with a generally poor 2016 for telecom infrastructure vendors, which comprise the bulk of the companies with MWC booths, we’ll probably see an overall muting of far out expensive “come look here” marketing and parties. I do expect to see three main trends, though:

  1. IoT messaging will be everywhere.  I might even see drones flying around with little marketing banners, though I doubt the GSMA would allow that. 

OTT and the Enterprise and the Impact on Service Providers

February 7, 2017



Service Providers don’t just provide services to consumer subscribers like you and me.  Service providers also provide a lot of services to enterprises. And the revenue derived from these services, such as text messaging, other messaging, and voice services, has declined as data usage has soared, the same trend they saw with consumer subscribers.  With data usage comes data apps that provide these services for “free” (though the subscribers are paying for the data usage).

OTT and the Enterprise and the Impact on Service Providers

February 7, 2017



Service Providers don’t just provide services to consumer subscribers like you and me.  Service providers also provide a lot of services to enterprises. And the revenue derived from these services, such as text messaging, other messaging, and voice services, has declined as data usage has soared, the same trend they saw with consumer subscribers.  With data usage comes data apps that provide these services for “free” (though the subscribers are paying for the data usage).

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