Monthly Archives: November 2011

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 […]

Video over the Internet. The Dichotomy Continues

Sycamore Networks has an interesting back-haul compression solution called IQStream.  Earlier this year they published some interesting stats in their weblog on the increasing concentration of video traffic, see below.  The reason behind this concentration is partially mass-market adoption drives concentration as people tend to ‘follow the herd’ so viral videos have a much bigger […]

Making Telecom VAS (Value Added Services) a Success: TIM Mentor

We’ve discussed previously the missed opportunity of operators’ websites in educating customers on all the services they offer.  Normally there’s a service name, a terse incomprehensible description, and a monthly price.  Its designed to fail in today’s environment when use cases (videos, cartoons, simple text and graphic descriptions), freemium and trial-to-buy business models are essential. […]

Focusing on the Basics and Why Limiting Ourselves to Standards Accelerates the Decline to a Utility Business Model of Internet Access

We all experience it, dropped calls, inability to connect to the network, garbled voice, painfully slow internet access, etc.  Why is the core service still less than completely reliable when its been around for 20 years?  The problem in-part is how operators test their network to capture these issues is based on standards created at […]

Apologies to the The Convergence of Telecom, TV and Entertainment Conference Attendees

To those attending the Telecommunication Conference 2011; The Convergence of Telecom, TV and Entertainment on Friday 11 November 2011 at Hilton Park Hotel in Nicosia: I’m afraid the organizers required I spend a weekend away from my family to meet their budget needs.  I’m a strong supporter of small businesses, as that’s where disruptive innovations […]