Post Archive - 2014
2014
Paid Text Apps May Gain PSTN, Voice Connectivity
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… Read more2014
The State of the US Wireless Market: MVNO 2.0 and M2M
IVR Technologies, Inc. will be attending the State of the US Wireless Market: MVNO 2.0 and M2M on August 14th, 2014 at the Loews Santa Monica, 5th Floor Arcadia Ballroom. Please contact sales@ivr.com to coordinate meeting times. http://www.mvnodynamics.com/events/la2014/
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Consumers are Eager for Customizable Wireless Service Plans for Mobile
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… Read more2014
Half of U.S. Homes Could be Mobile-Only by 2020
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… Read more2014
EC Mobile Data, Voice Roaming Cuts Take Effect on July 1, 2014
One reason Western European mobile service provider revenue is dropping is that new mandatory price cuts have been adopted, reducing maximum prices for some products, such as mobile data, by up to 70 percent. On July 1, 2014, the European Union will institute the third of three wholesale price cuts for wholesale mobile communications, cutting price… Read more2014
Wi-Fi Offload Will Represent 52% of Mobile Internet Traffic in 2018
Mobile Internet access traffic offloaded from mobile networks to Wi-Fi represented 45 percent of total mobile Internet traffic in 2013, and will grow to 52 percent of total mobile Internet access traffic by 2018, according to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index. Likewise, the amount of traffic offloaded from smartphones will be 51 percent by 2018… Read more2014
Worldwide Carrier Network Upgrades to Cost $354 Billion this Year
Ever since the rise of LTE, mobile expenditures have been on the rise, with several government and private sector initiatives throwing whatever money it can at projects to expand networks. Infonetics Research, a research firm dedicated to gathering data on the telecommunications market, has released a report called “Service Provider Capex… Read more2014
U.S. Communications Market in Great Flux; Regulate Forward, Not Backwards
As U.S. regulators potentially are called upon to approve or reject a number of industry-transforming deals (Comcast acquisition of Time Warner Cable; Sprint acquisition of T-Mobile US; AT&T purchase of DirecTV or a Dish Network purchase of T-Mobile US), U.S. cable TV operators are preparing yet one more effort to enter the U.S. mobile business… Read more2014
The MVNO Revolution – Are You Ready To Be Virtualized?
Churn is a constant threat and a constant opportunity depending on which side of the fence you happen to be sitting. In some markets customers are switching providers in their droves. Consider Australia, where a whopping 46 percent of customers churned in the last three years. Nearly half of those who churned in the last year went to Mobile Virtual… Read more2014
Are VoIP Apps a Threat to Mobile Service Providers?
Over-the-top (OTT) VoIP services such as WhatsApp and Viber have become popular during the last few years. This popularity of OTT apps is fueled in part by the availability of low-cost smartphones and the emergence of cheap data plans. While users are happy with these new instant messaging services, telecom service providers are feeling the pinch.… Read more
