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OTT mobile VoIP and messaging a threat to revenue

Mobile VoIP apps and mobile Instant Messaging (IM) are Over-The-Top (OTT) services representing a potential threat to mobile operators’ call revenues. Mobile VoIP has been under-development for a number of years and the offerings for these services have improved over … Continue reading

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Telcos cannot wind back the clock

The proposals by the European and Arab telcos that are being considered at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) conference in Dubai later this year are most certainly facing defeat. This is not because the USA believes that the … Continue reading

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Is the WCIT indeed wicked?

The traditional network operators see OTT services as a threat, and the companies offering them are perceived to be getting a free lunch over their networks – they are calling for international regulation. In particular, the European telcos (united in … Continue reading

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Business models for network operators in an OTT world

Yesterday I presented at the “State of Telecoms” conference at Columbia University in New York City on the above mentioned topic The changing nature of the network market Internet diffusion and the broadening of its usage, as well as its … Continue reading

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Telstra leading the global telco move towards the OTT model

It is interesting to see what has happened since Telstra took the decision to embrace structural separation, and to close down the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) in order to move to an NGN (Next-Generation Network) environment. This heralds fundamental … Continue reading

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