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If service providers aren’t quick to grab onto new business models and start monetizing them, they may get overrun by the over-the-top guys who will find ways of circumventing them and leaving them to pick up the pieces. What a busy industry we work in. The range of hot topics keep surfacing like cloud services, smart phones, net neutrality, mobile app stores and over-the-top services as well as continued buzz from LTE and WiMax keeps on coming. Of course, these are increasingly facets of the same... -
If there is one metric that the mobile industry reveres it is Average Revenue Per User (ARPU). It’s always foxed me why this should be a meaningful measure. After all, mobile markets started with relatively few international business customers at exorbitant tariffs, so as the market moved to more and more of the general population using mobile, ARPU was bound to fall as people paying with their own hard earned cash are likely to be more price conscious. So ARPU is bound to fall where the uptake... -
It’s a little known fact that Verizon Wireless used the Beatles song All Together Now in commercials in 2002. So it was interesting to read the words of a current Verizon executive, Jeannie Diefenderfer, vice president of global network operations (NYSE: VZ) in Telephony Online this week talking about “coopetition” – or cooperation among competitors – as a key attribute for successful telecom operations. “ I believe in today’s world, and more so going forward... | | Paid Advertisement | | |  | | Copyright © 1988-2012, TeleManagement Forum. All Rights Reserved | | | | | |
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