by Pivot
Category: Marketing
Is Cable SMB Opportunity Lucrative, or Not?
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…
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…
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…
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…
PBX Sales Slip a Bit Globally, Up in U.S. Market
Infonetics Research predicts “the PBX market is down slightly on a global basis in the second quarter of 2012, both sequentially and year-over-year, and enterprises generally remain cautious with their spending on telephony equipment.” “Sales…
FCC Suspends Special Access Pricing Rules
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…
Incumbents Have More Competitive Choices in Mobile than Fixed Business
Mobile and fixed network service providers are, by now, used to competition. And, by now, there are some standard competitive responses to new competition, in either the mobile or fixed services realm. Typically, incumbent service…
Cable TV Prices were Higher in 2011, But What it Means is a Subtle Matter
Video subscription services are odd products, in a way. Because the actual product is an experience, and since the experience can include any number of specific channels, it is difficult to directly compare “products” by…
Entertainment Video Subscription Market Shrinks at Historic Rates in 2Q 2012
Keep it in perspective, but in the second quarter of 2012 the U.S. subscription video entertainment business, accustomed to growing every year, suffered its biggest-ever decline in subscribers. Net U.S. subscriber additions for subscription TV…