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UCaaS Leaders?

One more research company put out its market leader report on UCaaS (unified communications as a service or as I call...

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A Grateful Holiday Break

Heading home to visit friends and parents. It is a good time to stop to write what I am grateful for....

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SS7 Signaling Still Alive and Well

As operators migrate to IMS and LTE, and thus IP architectures, SS7 signaling has seemingly been left behind.  After all, Diameter...

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AirHopper: Even Air-Gap Networks are Not Secure

It’s a good time to be in the Cybersecurity business. Quite often, highly secure computers are disconnected from the outside world so...

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The era of the hardware-based media server is over -scaling software-based media servers

As the telecom world moves closer and closer to software- based infrastructure, many questions are being asked about scalability of these...

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10 Reasons Why Microsoft is Winning

With new CEO Satya Nadella at the helm, Microsoft is changing and into something it needs to be. A company embracing a...

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UK Telecom Market On Verge of Major Consolidation

December 1, 2014

After BT began moving towards an acquisition of either Telefonica SA’s O2 or EE, the wireless carrier co-owned by Orange SA and Deutsche Telekom AG, a Vodafone reaction was virtually certain.

Vodafone arguably cannot allow BT to amass that much revenue scale and bundling capability without the ability to match future BT offers and market share, as the U.K. telecommunications market would lurch towards a two-tier structure with BT possibly able to climb up to the top of the market share standings on the basis of new product bundles, while the other providers are left to compete with product offers less broad.

The example is the U.S. market, where most consumers buy a bundle of services including high speed access, voice and video entertainment, while some also add mobile service quadruple plays. The standard market offer, in that case, becomes the bundle itself, and less the discrete product components.



Report: Global VoIP Services Market to Reach $137 Billion by 2020

November 15, 2014

Transparency Market Research (TMR) recently released a report that predicts a bright future for the global VoIP services market. By 2020, it is expected to grow to $136.76 billion with 348.5 million subscribers.

It’s somewhat counterintuitive, but one of the driving forces behind this growth is the growth of mobile device use. An increase in smartphone and tablet use means more Internet use.

Carriers to Lose up to $14B on OTT Services

November 1, 2014

A new report by Juniper Research forecasts carriers to lose up to $14 billion revenue on over the top (OTT) apps in 2014.

That’s 26 percent more than last year. The firm found that in some markets, including Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom, carrier revenues had fallen to less than 60 percent of what they’d been five years ago. Not only are these carriers facing lower revenues, they’re also struggling to keep up with the traffic these services generate.

Report: Telecom Capex to Grow 3% in 2014

October 15, 2014

Telecom operators around the world invested heavily in fiber optic and 4G LTE networks in 1H 2014 as they continued a transformation from voice- to data-centric infrastructure and services, according to a Carrier Economics report released by the Dell’oro Group September 30.

Telecom operators’ capital expenditures (capex) increased at a mid-single digit rate during 2014′s first half. Mobile network infrastructure capex registered a double-digit increase, outpacing the low single-digit growth in service revenues significantly.

Additional highlights from the Dell’Oro Group Carrier Economics Report include:

  • The amount of mobile capex required to support incremental mobile data usage has declined more than 50% per year since the smartphone boom started;
  • Fiber and LTE coverage build-outs will continue to drive telecom equipment investments in 2H14 and 2015.

End of Europe Mobile Roaming Fees in 2016? Maybe Not

October 1, 2014

Mobile roaming fees within European Union countries has been slated for 2015 reductions as part of moves aimed at eliminating roaming fees altogether, originally forecast for 2016.  But there might now be a delay in the timetable for ending all roaming fees for text messaging, mobile Internet or voice by 2016.

Mobile service providers have opposed those changes, for obvious reasons. The EU market for mobile roaming services creates revenue for mobile service providers. 

By the End of 2014, There Will be More Mobile Phones than People

September 15, 2014

Around the world, and especially in developing countries, mobile phones are starting to become ubiquitous. Smartphones are versatile enough to become some of the best ways for people around the world to access the Internet, yet simple enough to be used by all demographics as a standard phone. So many of these phones are being built that by the end of this year, there will be more phones than human beings on the planet with a projected 7.3 billion devices.

This staggering statistic means that there will be more phones than there are people to talk to on.

Report: Mobile Usage on the Rise; Time Spent Increased 24 Percent

September 1, 2014

Recent research shows that Internet users in the U.S. are consuming more media on their mobile devices than on desktops, and within that mobile usage, apps account for the primary method of consumption by a wide margin.

The "U.S. Mobile App Report" comes from comScore, a U.S.

Paid Text Apps May Gain PSTN, Voice Connectivity

August 15, 2014

Until now wireless carriers may not have paid much attention to some new players in the VoIP arena. These include companies like WhatsApp (now owned by Facebook) that sell smartphone apps that give users a limited ability to send text messages or place calls using their mobile data services.

Offerings such as these may let wireless users avoid per-minute and per-message charges, but aren’t really a substitute for traditional voice and text service because they generally lack certain capabilities. For example, they may not support traditional phone numbers that would allow them to receive calls and text messages to or from the PSTN.

Consumers are Eager for Customizable Wireless Service Plans for Mobile

August 1, 2014

Mobile phone technology is rapidly evolving, yet the pay structures for consumers have remained largely unchanged. Most phone plans require subscribers to pay for a set number of minutes and text messages in addition to placing a set amount of data for the month, which drives up the cost of a phone plan. This ultimately wrestles control over the phone plan away from the consumer, although a recent survey by Strategy Analytics confirmed that around 60 percent of mobile phone users around the world want better optimized customizable mobile service solutions.

One alternative strategy that mobile carriers could carry out is to switch to an entirely data-centric model, where text and voice are both sent over the Internet with Voice over IP technology (VoIP).

Half of U.S. Homes Could be Mobile-Only by 2020

July 15, 2014

Some 41 percent of U.S. households did not buy or use landline phone service in the second half of 2013, according to the latest study by the National Center for Health Statistics.

That represented an increase of 1.6 percentage points since the first half of 2013 and 2.8 percentage points since the second half of 2012. At those rates of abandonment, half of U.S.

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