by Pivot
Category: Carrier Evolution
Big New Markets Aren’t Always Easy to Seize
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,…
Big New Revenue Opportunities Take Time to Develop
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…
AT&T “Welcomes” Spectrum Cap Review by FCC
You wouldn’t normally expect any market leader to support possible new regulatory action that might actually limit the amount of spectrum, or the types of spectrum, any mobile service provider can own. But the unexpected…
Older Customers Like Phone Service That “Just Works;” Millennials Prefer Voice as Part of a Bundle
Both Generation Y and Pre-Boomer (Millennial) customers are significantly more satisfied with their home telephone service than customers in other generational groups, according to J.D. Power and Associates. J.D. Power and Associates defines “Pre-Boomers” as…
Australia National Broadband Plan: Not Much Room for Error
The latest update of the Australian National Broadband Plan might suggest the financial risks fiber to the home networks represent, even in a scenario where there is a monopoly national wholesale network that sells capacity…
Cloud Computing Market Will be Bigger Than Most Think
It typically is difficult to estimate the size of a big a new market when that new market essentially cannibalizes existing businesses in the process. Unified communications has been that sort of market, since it…
Private Cloud is a Public Cloud Services Provider Opportunity
There are five common misconceptions about “private cloud,” which sometimes is seen as server virtualization at existing enterprise computing facilities, or simply the adoption of infrastructure as a service, according to Gartner analysts. The implications…
“Unlimited” or Shared Data Plans Mostly are Marketing Platforms, at the Moment
The overwhelming majority of customers on AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon networks studied by NPD Connected Intelligence don’t even use 2 GBytes worth of mobile data per month, which suggests most consumers do not need…
We’ve Made Lots of Progress in Global Voice, Broadband, Internet
Sometimes we forget how fast the communications, Internet and device industries have solved problems that seemed intractable just several decades ago. Between 1995 and 2000, the world’s population rose by about eight percent. Meanwhile, the…
Dumb Pipe, Yes; Smart Pipe, Sometimes; Telco 2.0, Almost Never
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…
A Look at E-Commerce, by the Numbers
Telco Venture Arms are a New Twist on an Old Story
Sometimes firms in big, established industries can find that the best way to create new products is to rely on the culturally relevant ways they always have done so. Large telcos are no different. It…