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There is a two trillion dollar fixed and mobile communications market out there that is about to find out that both communications and connectivity could quickly become feature and function rather than product and service. Already communications is rapidly being unbundled from the underlying network. Skype, WebEx, and Lync are just a couple of examples […] Read more »
And KPN is the proverbial canary in the coal mine. For operators, the impact of an increased uptake of mobile VoIP and chat (mVoIP/Chat) is potentially devastating. Operators run a very real risk that voice and SMS revenues will dwindle. A study by GSM/Wireless Intelligence estimates global mobile service provider revenues will be $1.1 trillion […] Read more »
turns into “Strengthen, Simplify and Shrink” as KPN “accelerates its transition in The Netherlands and continues to adjust to a changing external environment” – verbatim from its press and analyst presentations today. KPN’s transition seems to be accelerating in the wrong direction with a 63% drop in fourth-quarter profit and mobile customers increasingly transitioning to […] Read more »
“Yeah, we are a Telco” was the message from BlueVia, the new API program from Telefonica, on their Silicon Valley Tour last year. And, “yes, we know what you are all thinking: telcos suck” they continued. Not the usual marketing message you get from telcos, but necessary to grab the attention of web and app […] Read more »
Or is it just a bunch of marketing couplets? We think it looks like free verse for now. According to Cisco, CloudVerse is an integrated set of capabilities that enables customers to deliver cloud applications and services by uniquely combining the unified data center and cloud intelligent network. But today it looks more like a […] Read more »
Cloud is not among the five new Vodafone growth opportunities that were presented at the Q2 financial results meeting a couple of days ago. We believe Vodafone is right and consider competing in the cloud services space difficult for telcos. Have a look at our 12 reasons why telcos will not dominate cloud computing. Read more »