by Pivot
Category: Business Models
TIA Industry Forecast Shows Relationship Between Networks and Business Models
There are some interesting conclusions one might draw about the relationship between “networks” and “business models” in the latest communications industry revenue forecast published by the Telecommunications Industry Association. Consider that U.S. wireless revenue in…
M2M Services will Be 20% of Europe Telco Revenue by 2017
Machine-to-machine services aren’t generating all that much revenue at the moment, in Europe, representing perhaps 4.2 percent of total revenue in 2011. Keep in mind that most observers consider “connected devices” such as tablets to…
Tablet TV Viewing Will Reach 3 Hours a Month by 2014
Tablet TV viewing will reach 186 minutes per month in 2014, according to Juniper Research. The increase will be most apparent in North America where there is already significant mobile TV usage, and where internet…
Sometimes There is No “Return on Investment”
Forget about return on investment” is the advice some would give to banks struggling to find a return on mobile payments or mobile commerce investments. At one level, the advice makes sense. Pilot programs, even…
Hawaiian Telecom 2011 Results Illustrate Broader Trend
Hawaiian Telecom’s 2011 financial reports illustrate a broader trend in the fixed network business. Hawaiian Telecom revenue was $98.9 million for the fourth quarter and $395.2 million for the year, and included declining access line…
How Much Messaging Revenue will Mobile Service Providers Lose Over Next 3 Years?
According to a survey of industry executives, telecom service providers fear declining revenues in the messaging segment of their business. To be specific, the fear is that losses of 20 percent to 35 percent in…
Akamai Unbundles CDN, Create Aura Network Solutions
Akamai Technologies has launched “Aura Network Solutions,” a line of managed and licensed content delivery network (CDN) offerings to support both fixed line and mobile network operators. What’s new here is that Akamai will enable…
Mobile Bandwidth Grows 234% in 2011, Says Allot
Allot Communications says mobile data bandwidth usage grew 83 percent during the second half of 2011, based on data collected from Allot’s worldwide mobile operator customers. That was part of a compound annual growth rate…
“Out of Territory” Video to Join “Out of Territory” Voice and Data?
Selling services “out of market” is a relatively new development in the U.S. telecom business. Cable companies have local franchises and local access providers have certificates without which their businesses cannot be operated. Wireless service…
LTE Won’t “Solve” Mobile Demand Problems
Mobile data traffic will increase at 70 percent a year in developed markets between 2011 and 2015, but mobile data revenues will increase by only 17 percent, analysts at Research and Markets estmate. That isn’t…
Google to Sell Branded In-Home Entertainment System
Google is developing a home entertainment system that streams music wirelessly throughout the home and would be marketed under the company’s own brand, according to the Wall Street Journal. One obvious implication is that Google…
Fixed Broadband will be 9% of Global Telecom Revenue in 2012
Global fixed broadband revenue expected to generate $191 billion and reaching $217 billion in 2012, according to ABI Research. If one assumes 2012 global telecom revenue will be $2.1 trillion, then fixed broadband would represent…