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Emerging Markets Become a Force of Telecom Innovation as Growth Drives Innovation

Between 1995 and 2010, mobile’s share of the global telecom revenue pie increased from 14% to 63%. In 1995 mobile revenues from emerging markets represented 2% of global telecom revenues, by 2010 it was 28%.  In 1995, only 15% of the world’s mobile subscribers were in developing markets. By the end of 2010, 79% of […]

Its Time Telcos Made some Changes at the TMF (TeleManagement Forum)

TM Forum was founded in 1988 by BT and AT&T, they had created similar support system architectures, see the BT Tile Architecture shown below.  Now this architecture was created nearly 30 years ago so its understandable why it suffers from the classic ‘Bell-head’ ‘box and wire’ design.  The TM Forum today brings together members (700 […]

Looking Back and Looking Forward

This article reviews some upcoming themes and the passed year’s themes. Looking Forward: MWC 2010 and some themes for the coming decade What will probably be the main themes of MWC (Mobile World Congress) 2010? Unfortunately, LTE (Long Term Evolution) will be a key focus of the show.  I’ve discussed previously why most operators do […]