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We recently talked to Vodafone at their 2014 enterprise analyst summit. Enterprise is an important segment for Vodafone. The enterprise share of group service revenue has increased from 23% in 2012 to 27% in 2014 totalling £ 10.7B; 77% of 2014 enterprise revenues can be attributed to wireless and 33% to fixed (source: annual report […] Read more »
Last week we attended Vodafone’s Enterprise Industry analyst event in London to get an update on Vodafone’s Enterprise strategy. Vodafone Group’s current Enterprise division, headed by Nick Jeffery, was formed in January this year after the Cable & Wireless takeover and has revenues of £12 billion which is 27% of Vodafone Group’s overall annual revenue. […] Read more »
There is a new WiFi wave reminiscent of the optimism in the last decade when the public wireless hotspot startup phenomenon was in its heydays. I am referring to it as Big WiFi, because some of the new wave providers’ focus on WiFi coupled with social (big) data and advertising and the ambitions of most […] Read more »
Yesterday Dutch cable operator Ziggo announced the acquisition of Esprit Telecom, valued at €18 million. Esprit Telecom sells voice, data and hosting services to Dutch small and medium enterprises (SME). In 2012, Esprit Telecom – together with its subsidiary Zoranet – generated revenues of €37 million with 100 employees. In 2012, Ziggo Business generated €106 […] Read more »
This Monday, Dutch VoIP and business broadband player Voiceworks entered the mobile market. As MVNE on the KPN network, it launched three (converged) business mobile services. Voiceworks Mobile is the core mobile voice and data service. Mobile Connect mobilizes existing on-premise PBX installations through a connection with the Voiceworks hybrid VoIP/GSM core. Managed Mobile hosts […] Read more »
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 »