November 14, 2017 — CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–U.S. Cellular customers can easily manage their vehicles and keep tabs on the safety of their drivers using CruiseConnect, an easy-to-install vehicle connectivity device developed by ZTE and accompanying mobile app developed by Modus. CruiseConnect offers safety…
John Lazar, Metaswitch Networks CEO, faces a challenge most suppliers to the global telecom business also face, namely how his own business, and that of his service provider customers, will change over the next decade or so. Some of those…
While the U.S. cable operators in 2012 may generate over $7 billion in annual revenues providing telecommunications services to businesses, they “will be chasing a declining business telecom services segment” and face fierce competition from entrenched telco providers with very…
It long has been a fixture of regulatory policy that different media have had distinct regulatory frameworks. In the U.S. market, the fundamental frameworks include unregulated “media,” partially regulated broadcasting and cable; and heavily-regulated common carrier services. That “regulation by…
Big new markets do not automatically translate into big profits for ecosystem participants in those new markets. That’s just one of the problems application and service providers face in new businesses such as mobile advertising, which just about any observer…
Machine-to-machine service revenues represent 0.5 percent of total mobile operator service revenues at the moment, according to Informa Telecoms & Media. And some observers might say even that estimate could be too high, considering that some service providers actually consider…
Access service providers do not much like the notion that they primarily are “pipe providers,” much less “dumb pipe” providers. That has lead to much consideration of how access providers can compete with the application providers (Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon,…
The Federal Communications Commission has concluded that its 1999 rules on market-based special access rates “have not worked,” so the FCC is suspending its rules. The FCC says it has to conduct new studies, but most expect the FCC will…
It’s always tough to extrapolate from a sample to an entire population. If the sample is significantly non-representative of the wider population, it can be quite misleading to generalize sample results to the wider population. Extraplating from the results of…
Telco and cable revenue trends in the U.S. market continue to illustrate a fundamental principle some of us believe is foundational for both telcos and cable companies working in developed markets. And that fundamental reality is that any service provider…
Data revenue will grow to 65 percent of total U.S. wireless service revenue as voice declines to 35 percent in 2016, according to Hugues de la Vergne, principal research analyst at Gartner. What might not yet be so clear is…
Sometimes a year over year revenue decline is “self induced.” That isn’t entirely why Verizon fixed network revenue dropped about $300 million, year over year, but Verizon argues much of the decline is intentional. Verizon estimates that about 65 percent…
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