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Indian telcos want govt to force OTTs to pay for 5G rollout
Indian telecom operators are planning to pressure the DoT once again to devise a mechanism for making OTT apps pay for developing 5G digital network infrastructure. Read more…
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OTT content players need telcos to survive: Airtel CEO
Airtel CEO Gopal Vittal says direct-to-consumer OTT content players need to change their business models and partner with telcos if they want to survive. Read more…
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Zoom is struggling to fit in a post-COVID world
Shares of Zoom have tumbled from their pandemic peak in October 2020 as the company cuts its annual sales forecast and posts its slowest quarterly growth. Read more…
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Consumers say there are way too many subscription services
Consumers hate juggling so many subscription services, but they’d subscribe to even more of them if there was a single platform to manage them all: survey. Read more…
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BIF says regulating OTTs like telcos will kill app ecosystem
Broadband India Forum (BIF) says any move to bring OTT players under India’s licensing framework will wreck the app ecosystem in the country. Read more…
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COAI wants OTT players to be regulated like telcos
India’s COAI has asked the government to regulate OTT players like WhatsApp and Netflix the same as telcos under a “same service same rules” regime. Read more…
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South Korea bill could make content firms pay network fees
South Korea’s parliament sees heated debate over proposed legislation to make global content providers such as Netflix and Google pay local network fees. Read more…
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India plans to regulate WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal
India may devise a law to regulate messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal to address security-related concerns. Read more…
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Internet value chain can’t grow if telcos aren’t making money
The internet value chain is growing, but not for telcos expected to invest in the robust infrastructure needed to support it: GSMA report. Read more…
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Telco CEOs want Big Tech to help cover the cost of network upgrades
US Big Tech giants should bear some of the costs of developing telecoms networks because they use them so heavily, say 13 European telco CEOs Read more…
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Telcos urge Indian govt to defer net neutrality and regulate OTT players
Indian telecom operators have urged the government to bring OTT players under some form of licensing regime to establish level playing field. Read more…
Features
International OTT voice traffic more than double traditional carriers
International OTT voice traffic reached 1 trillion minutes in 2019, compared to just 432 billion minutes of international carrier traffic. Read more…
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Operator voice revenue to drop 45% by 2024 – OTT challenge
A new study has found that mobile operator voice revenue will drop by 45% in 2024 , as users continue to prefer more flexible and free OTT services. Read more…
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Just how good are OTT voice services across Asia
A new report measures the quality of over-the-top (OTT) voice services experienced by consumers across 80 countries, including Singapore Read more…
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IoT pricing models – a nightmare in the making?
I have been following, with great interest, a discussion on the TM Forum Community about IoT pricing models and, as you would expect, it has become complicated. Read more…
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Operators must go further with business model transformation
For telecom players, the outlook is uncertain. Internally, they face stagnating and volatile revenues, and operators worldwide aren’t likely to exceed 4% annual growth, particularly in mature and late-stage emerging markets. Legacy revenues are likely Read more…
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How internet content players changed the way telcos build networks
While cloud-based content and services such as social media are shaping our day-to-day lives, internet content providers (ICPs) have been redefining how the underlying cloud networks are architected and operated. In the past few years, Read more…
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IMS is finally reaching its potential as a true innovation platform
IMS has been a “thing” for 15 years or so. Now it appears to have finally come of age and gone mainstream, and Jan Rijk Vonk, director of innovation strategy at KPN and a scheduled Read more…
Off the Wire
6 billion smartphones and 7.5 billion OTT messaging users by 2020
The global smartphone installed base will grow from four billion in 2016 to more than six billion smartphones in use by 2020, according to new analysis released today by IHS Markit. Meanwhile, messaging and communications Read more…
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OTT messaging will cost cellcos $104 billion in revenue in 2017: study
Consumer migration from operator voice and text services to OTT messaging services and social media will cost network operators nearly $104 billion this year – equivalent to 12% of their service revenues – according to a Read more…