Building on a sudden surge of activity last year, we expect a great deal of growth in fibre to the business premises (FTTP) and fibre to the home (FTTH) in 2015.
South African operator Vodacom is upgrading its billing system to Redknee’s Unified platform.
There is a lot going on in the telecommunications industry right now, whether because of the threat from more agile and faster OTT players, the fast changing dynamics in the industry or telco’s own mindset of not being a dumb pipe anymore.
India’s spectrum auctions have been postponed for a week while the country’s Department of Telecom addresses issues raised at a pre-auction meeting.
Notwithstanding the success that mobile money (MM) services have had in Kenya and a handful of other countries, most MM providers in Africa are still trying to figure out how to monetise their businesses.
We see 2015 as being the year when CEM (Customer Experience Management) becomes a top priority for operators in developing markets, as they continue their quest for the retention of customers and improvements in ARPU.
Bharti Airtel has commissioned Nokia Networks to expand its 4G presence to a further 6 of India’s 22 telecom circles.
The main battle between incumbent mobile operators in Africa over the next five years will be in mobile broadband.
A year ago we predicted that during 2014 there would be a significant increase in the number of operators in Africa rolling out VoIP services.
Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) require substantial data capacities for core and trunking services, much of which uses fibre/cable.
At the AfricaCom show last November, Ahmad Farroukh, CEO of MTN South Africa, said that his company is focused on NGN for both mobile and fixed access, with LTE already available in parts of the country.
Spectra Wireless and Microsoft 4Afrika have launched Africa’s first commercial service network utilising TV white spaces in Ghana.
In 2014, the roll-out of LTE has been a major focus for communications service providers (CSPs), with over 300 LTE networks now in operation globally.
Ethiopia’s sole service provider Ethio Telecom is introducing an electronic recharge solution.
Slovenia’s regulator AKOS has deemed the country’s two biggest operators - Telekom Slovenije and Si.mobil – guilty of contravening net neutrality legislation set out by the Electronic Communications Act.
2015 is going to be the year of heightened engagement and activity around mobile financial services.
Market-leading South African operator Vodacom has commissioned Alcatel-Lucent to build a gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) solution to expand into the enterprise and residential markets.
In 2015, we expect to see five major mobile backhaul trends in emerging markets.
Facebook has launched a simplified version of its Android app for lower-end devices in emerging markets.
During 2015 we expect to see further evolution in the LTE radio access network, with a number of LTE-Advanced technologies moving from the lab into commercial deployment.
As mobile telecoms become more and more intertwined with the internet, we will continue to see new services and opportunities emerge, both in the B2B and B2C area, as a result of this growing interconnectivity.
AT&T has announced that it will acquire Nextel from NII Holdings for $1.9 billion, minus the group’s unpaid debt.
Growing customer expectations and challenging network dynamics are putting pressure on the Radio AccessNetwork (RAN) in such a manner that almost 80% of quality impacting events occur in the RAN.
African carrier Wananchi Telecom has partnered with Epsilon for the delivery of outsourced network services to support the growth of its wholesale telecommunications business.
A significant shift has taken place in the telecom landscape as market dynamics bring together need and opportunity to create a major change.
The telecommunications sector in emerging markets will face both opportunities and challenges for the year 2015.
Kenyan market leader Safaricom is launching the country’s first LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) network in partnership with Nokia Networks.
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) have five renewable energy projects in developing countries.
In developing markets network coverage is often a significant problem, with many people outside of major cities having trouble getting connections because of poor telecoms infrastructure in their area.
Developing the mobile data usage has become the main priorities of operators across developing countries.
AT&T has completed its purchase of the Mexican mobile operator Iusacell.
One of the major trends we observed in 2014 was cloud companies’ expansion from the US and into international markets.
The Central American telecom market is seeing a continued trend towards enabling connectivity, following similar technological and business model processes of other more developed economic regions such as its US neighbour and Europe.
MENA Cable System has deployed Infinera’s DTN-X platform across its trans-Egypt terrestrial network.
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