Growth is the biggest trend we are going to see in emerging markets. MNO’s will continue to shift their burden of infrastructure management to third parties, competing head to head with co-tenants on shared towers for millions of new customers...
Mobile Network Operators will focus on the core services of voice, SMS and data to the detriment of traditional Value Added Services...
Innovative services offered via mobile in emerging markets will continue to flourish in 2013...
Mobile payments are set to continue their growth throughout 2013...
Unified communications will be a major trend among organisations in 2013, particularly in emerging markets...
Among service providers in emerging markets, there is a steady demand for more bandwidth for access network infrastructure and mobile backhaul...
According to World Telecom Labs (WTL) there have been a number of recurrent themes among emerging market operators across the last year...
Spacecom operates its AMOS satellite fleet over Central & Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Among the strongest trends in these markets are the use of satellite to ensure reliable communications for a growing number of enterprise and consumer users who expect high quality service options all the time and everywhere they go...
An SMS revival is on the cards for 2013, according to Tyntec...
A richer mobile experience will be a defining trend in emerging markets during 2013...
Mobile will continue to enable innovative new services in emerging markets across 2013...
Increased demand for data-hungry content will be a major trend in 2013.
Mobile congestion will become a major issue in emerging markets during 2013 as smartphones take root...
In my opinion, the three strongest trends in emerging markets in 2013 are:
LTE compliant solutions will be heavily sought after to enable seamless roaming between 3G and the growing number of LTE networks...
The proliferation of LTE will be a major trend in 2013. There will be:
Green telecom will be the trend for 2013, along with a quest to serve the “Next Billion” mobile customers. In addition, the global data boom will force mobile operators to evalute their business models...
Fixed-mobile divergence is the top trend in 2013...
The key trend in 2013 will be the development of smarter mobile infrastructure. There will be...
The trend for 2013 will be True mobility in the workplace:
Mobile devices overtake desktops with...
In many emerging markets there is a need for more spectrum, both for backhaul and access. This is because there is a lot of growth and no alternative – GPON and DSL connections typically aren’t present, and they are often difficult to deploy in more remote regions. High-capacity last-mile solutions are far preferable to emerging market providers - spectrum is a scarce resource, so it’s important to find more intelligent ways to make use of it...
The top priority of any wireless provider is to make sure that the wireless signal from a device gets into the ground as soon as possible. To do this, it’s crucial to make efficient use of the available spectrum...
There has been a vast increase in data growth in most markets over the last few years, with rising mobile penetration in the rural regions of emerging markets often cited as a key driver for competitiveness.
This has lead to many discussions on how best to develop and promote mobile penetration in rural areas, with the most notable issues being those of infrastructure deployment and backhauling. Handling the boom in data-hungry services requires reliable networks that can offer increased capacity, but delivering such coverage to rural areas presents many challenges...
We are going through a radical shift in the way people work and use computers. Increasing availability and affordability of wireless broadband is giving the global workforce true mobility, for the first time in history. Many of them will use smartly designed mobile rugged computers for their everyday computing and communication needs, instead of traditional laptops.
The digital revolution has given rise to a literal explosion of data, as the volume of information shared, distributed and stored increases exponentially on a daily basis. An ever-growing list of regulatory compliance adds to the burden, generating masses of additional data that needs to be managed. This is further complicated by emerging trends such as big data, cloud data, change data capture, data integration, data analysis and so on...
Mobile World Congress (MWC) is the industry’s main opportunity every year to trumpet the achievements of mobile communications, great as these undoubtedly are. Indeed it has long been our belief that mobile phones are right up there with the Honda 125cc moped and Penicillin as technologies having the greatest transformative effect on the lives of people in the developing world...
Africa's journey into the age of the Knowledge Economy and telephonic communication has, until recently, been a laborious and slow process, all the while the rest of the world’s usage has only but boomed...
To start off the new year, we here at Developing Telecoms thought it would be interesting to take stock of the market and identify what the top telecom trends in emerging markets will be during 2012. We decided that the best way of doing this would be to ask the people who really know: top executives at network operators, services providers and equipment vendors who work in the market and are experiencing developments first hand...
“ITU Telecom World 2011 sets new paradigm for top-level networking and knowledge-sharing”. So said the announcement at the end of ITU Telecom World 2011 – but does it really? And what exactly was new about the paradigm for top level networking and knowledge sharing in Geneva?
Adoption of Unified Communications technology is reaching critical mass, corroborated by a report from In-Stat earlier this year that predicted small office spending on IP telephony would grow by 83 per cent in 2011...
African leaders have been advised to take social media, such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, more seriously or potentially lose power...
The main challenge now in emerging markets is to deliver mobile internet affordably, both to urban elites and to presently unserved remote areas. To do this, operators will need to be innovative...
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