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Custom Toll Free Announces Reservation Platform in Response to FCC’s New 855 Toll Free Prefix
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010The Economy and Its Effect on the Telecom Industry
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010The latest economic meltdown started in the year 2007 and can still be felt to this day. Plenty of people have turned from rich to poor, and unfortunate companies went bankrupt. However, the financial crisis has had a less severe impact on the telecom industry, but the telecom companies’ obstacles were magnified.
During the global meltdown, banks and other financial institutions lowered their lending. This was caused by a sudden increase in insolvent debtors, companies and people that filed bankruptcy. In turn, financial institutions lost a lot of money and had to use depositors’ cash for their own recovery. These institutions were also afraid that the financial crisis would continue and the next debtors would also be unable to pay. This decreased lending service had a negative impact on the telecom industry. The telecom industry needs money to expand through the growing needs of consumers through the modernizing of telecom infrastructures. Because financial institutions were a bit hesitant to lend out, and investors decreased because of an unstable economy, the telecom industry felt a deceleration in growth. The telecom industry had to cut down capital expenditures because of decreased revenue. They had to respond to higher credit interest costs and an unstable consumer demand. Some operators even opted to share physical investments.
With the decline in spending of the telecom industry, the network market experienced a deficit in terms of demand and capacity. Service providers either did not want to spend a lot because they were expecting a drastic decrease in revenue, or they did not have enough money because they were not able to secure loans from financial institutions.
A financial crisis will certainly hurt industries. Telecom companies did not have trouble with continuing operations, but they had troubles with their obliged continuous growth. Indirectly affecting the telecom industry, the decrease in the lending ability of financial industries declines the ability of the telecom industry to meet the demand of consumers for better service.
Scope of the Unified Mobile Platform Announced by Telecom Companies
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010One of the leading features of mobile phones today is running on a mobile platform. A mobile platform is an operating system that runs through your mobile phone, comparable to an operating system that a computer runs. It basically allows you to run plenty of applications on your mobile. Smart phones are now the “in” thing in the mobile phone market. These smart phones run different mobile systems, depending on who the manufacturer is. In turn, having different mobile platforms means running different applications. Telecom companies are now in a race to see who can offer the more innovative functionalities in mobile smart phones.
Mobile World Congress that was held in Barcelona, Spain, from February 15 – 18, 2010, twenty-four telecom companies announced plans on developing a unified mobile platform. These telecom companies want mobile applications to run on all mobile phones regardless of device, operating system, or service provider. The Wholesale Applications Community, with the use of the Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) widget Initiative, plans to eliminate the division in the mobile operating systems running today, especially with the fact that enjoying the different mobile apps would mean getting different mobile phones running different mobile operating systems. Basically, these twenty-four telecom companies are in the move to topple down mobile platform leaders Apple, Google, RIM, and other giants, using a write-once, run anywhere unified mobile platform. This will give mobile application developers, with the help of Software Development Kits that will soon form the basis of a converged W3C-approved development platform, a bigger market because regardless of what mobile phone you have, regardless of what operating system your mobile is running, regardless of which of the telecom companies serves as your operator, you can run these applications that are being sold in the market.
The twenty-four mentioned telecom companies are America Movil, AT&T, Bharti Airtel, China Mobile, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, KT, mobilkom austria group, MTN Group, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Orascom Telecom, Softbank Mobile, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, Telenor Group, TeliaSonera, SingTel, SK Telecom, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, VimpelCom, Vodafone and Wind. Even though they were met with the skepticism of Google reps, these telecom companies are looking forward to succeeding in their Unified Mobile Platform scheme with the help of LG Electronics, Samsung and Sony Ericsson. This Unified Mobile Platform will surely change the direction of mobile platforms today.
Global Telecom and the Little Guy
Friday, June 18th, 2010Modern global telecom technology provides us with communications capabilities only about twenty years ago. Gone are the days of five minute long distance calls with the entire family gathered around the phone breathing one another’s air. Communicating via telephone is so easy, fast, cheap and common that these days we take it for granted more than clean water. How then, might the little guy go about getting a piece of the pie? It seems like a daunting task, but there are actually several avenues open to entrepreneurs will a little drive and vision.
Overall the global telecom industry may seem to be made up of Bond worthy mega villains, with the intent on taking over the world and breaking our collective bank one $.10 text message at a time. If you have any doubts about the power of the telecom cartels, just take a little trip south of the border, to the dusty land of Mexico, where you will find Carlos “slim” Helu sitting on top of a mountain of hundred dollar bills plotting his next billion dollar acquisition. Carlos happens to be the world’s richest man, a title he earned through the nefarious business of enabling people to talk to one another.
Like any other big business, the global telecom boom also offers opportunities for the little guys with ideas. I mean look at Apple and the iPhone. OK, bad example of the little guy. Let’s instead consider the niche of custom toll free numbers. These are known as vanity numbers and in the global telecom game they represent a valuable niche market that offers newcomers a share of the pie. There are only a certain number of these vanity listings so finding their owners and securing the listing for a new customer is a lucrative game that requires nothing more than a little innovation and a great will to succeed.
There are hundreds of these little telecom niches just waiting to be tapped by the next person with an innovative way to improve the details of global telecommunications. There are a limited number of spots at the top of pyramid, but a further down, opportunities still abound.
The Effects of International Traffic Data on the Global Industry
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010Companies make a fortune with globalization today. In fact, the top profitable companies are working on the global industry. And with the great technology and easy communication we have today, wanting to be the biggest organization but not wanting to go global is just a pretty big mistake. But how can a parent company manage their BPO’s? The answer is simple, through communication.
Telecommunication is what makes the global industry work. With carriers also operating on an international level playing a part in the global industry it is easy to communicate with anyone in the world. Accordingly, international traffic data is reported to the governing body. Reporting international traffic data will reveal much about the happenings in the global industry. For example, a large number of both incoming and outgoing telecommunication activities would mean that the country is more involved in the globalized market. But sending data to other parts of the world comes with a price; a price that the companies want to avoid. The players in the global industry are asked to pay for incoming and outgoing data. These minutes are charged with an appropriate accounting rate system. Of course everyone wanted to avoid these hefty payments which will reduce their incomes significantly, so they got their creative juices flowing creating possible ways of eliminating costs in overseas communication, and they did not fail on that.
Over the past years the Internet has played a major role in the decline of international traffic data statistics by the global industry. The companies also found smaller carriers useful, as these carriers were not required to file traffic data to regulators. In some other instances, they make use of the network of terminating carriers of the receiving country. In 1998, a controversial drop of traffic data shares on the part of the United States led to the formation of the FCC Benchmark Order. International traffic data, as we see, is something the global industry watches out for.
The global industry has made an impact on the world economy since globalization became the thing for growing companies. But easy as it may seem with today’s technology, operating on a global level becomes a problem in terms of communication because the international traffic data mandatorily reported by carriers can pose a great decrease for the companies’ net earnings. And with the economic activity of those participants in the global industry now becoming proportionate to their traffic data activity, trying to pass up these costs is no longer simple.
Measuring Telecommunications Industry Trends
Monday, June 14th, 2010The driving forces behind the steady growth of the telecom industry are technological advancement and competition. With the global telecom market expected to increase by 11% this year, the telecom industry trends in consolidation is expected to continue as providers keep up with technology and work to gain bigger market shares.
The industry trend of the continuously increasing demand for mobile broadband fuels the drive of providers to further enhance speed for data access by improving their data network. Providers are constantly looking for cost effective strategies to upgrade their network infrastructure that support 4G without affecting their present 3G profitability. Data revenues reached 30% of total ARPU (average revenue per user) in 2009 with further growth expected with the growing popularity of Smartphones.
Telecommunications Industry trends also see the diversification of pricing plans as well as service packages. Providers are coming up with services beyond the basic phone, cable, internet and mobility services. Data center services, VPN and cloud computing are just some of the innovative services that providers are coming up with to create new sales opportunities. Product development is seeing a more segment-specific approach, with services meeting not only customers’ personal needs, but more diverse business needs, as well.
With the industry trend in the evolution and ever-growing demand for Smartphones and Netbooks, providers will have to work harder in offering even more value-added products and services. ComScore study indicates that there are already over 45 million Smartphone users in the U.S. alone. These gadgets are eroding providers’ voice revenues with their built-in mobile VoIP applications in favor of Over-The-Top players, such as Skype. Over-The-Top players’ entry through Smartphone applications becomes a source of new competition that telecom providers will have to deal with. Some providers are already responding by instead utilizing the popularity of these applications to further boost their data revenues.
With the rate that technological advancement influences telecommunication industry trends, providers who adapt the fastest will have the competitive edge.
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