Wi-Fi has been the buzz word for 2015, an expected ask from every public space in our country; a hotel without Wi-Fi is unthinkable; our travel/everyday destinations are decided basis two questions - mobile connectivity and Wi-Fi. Trust me, the need for Wi-Fi is on its way to becoming synonymous with air and water - available and is taking!
Wi-Fi technology has taken the telecom landscape by storm, reshaping and impacting strategies for many Telco's including Tata Teleservices. Moreover, Government of India's Digital India initiative, launched earlier this year, to ensure that Government services are made available to citizens electronically by improving online infrastructure and by increasing Internet connectivity is expected to take flight in next few years. So how will these developments and the accelerated roll out of Wi-Fi in all forms, both on the device and network side, impact our lives in 2016 and beyond?
There are some very interesting trends and innovations lined up next year. Here is a look:-
Fortifying the Transit
Smart up your homes
Time shifted Video content - (TV on Demand) here we come
Next-generation Wi-Fi Calling
Rise of LBS
Innovative and socially impacting uses of Wi-Fi technology
Wi-Fi offloading becomes an imperative
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Friday, 12 February 2016
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
8 Economic Barriers Responsible for India’s Gender Digital Divide
The mobile phone is one of the most widely used information and communication technologies in the developing world. For instance, in India, as of December 2013, there were more than 900 million mobile phone subscribers (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, 2014). However, in the male-dominated Indian society with 940 females per 1,000 males, only 30% of mobile phone owners were female, which indicates the presence of a gender digital divide in the country.
In Inequalities creating economic barriers to owning mobile phones in India Factors responsible for the gender digital divide, Devendra Potnis, assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, investigated the factors responsible for the inability of 245 female slum-dwellers in India, who earn around $2 a day, to own a mobile phone. More than 90% of the respondents experienced more than two economic barriers discussed below, which prevented them from owning some of the least expensive mobile phones worth $15 or so on installments of $1 a month.
In Inequalities creating economic barriers to owning mobile phones in India Factors responsible for the gender digital divide, Devendra Potnis, assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, investigated the factors responsible for the inability of 245 female slum-dwellers in India, who earn around $2 a day, to own a mobile phone. More than 90% of the respondents experienced more than two economic barriers discussed below, which prevented them from owning some of the least expensive mobile phones worth $15 or so on installments of $1 a month.
- Fluctuating low personal income
- Low personal savings
- Lack of financial support from husbands
- Cost of owning and maintaining a mobile phone
- Low household income
- Majority of financial dependents in family
- Unexpected and unforeseen family expenses
- Inherited debt
Tuesday, 19 January 2016
Begin Monetising SDN & NFV Today
While excitement builds around the development of 5G and vendors jostle for position, the security landscape continues to threaten operators’ livelihoods. With the ever-increasing number of threats facing the telecoms network, guaranteeing the security of the future network is absolutely essential.
There have been some early successes for telcos implementing virtualization platforms, and this Telecoms.com Intelligence paper, in association with Cisco, will investigate these increasingly prominent technologies and how telcos could go about claiming some important and tangible business wins.
This white paper will provide readers with:
There have been some early successes for telcos implementing virtualization platforms, and this Telecoms.com Intelligence paper, in association with Cisco, will investigate these increasingly prominent technologies and how telcos could go about claiming some important and tangible business wins.
This white paper will provide readers with:
- Tangible success stories from 3 operators implementing NFV (network function virtualization) & Cloud technologies.
- Advise on rolling out live NFV services for real business benefit.
- Explain how to orchestrate and manage operational VNFs on the live service provider network.
Monday, 13 July 2015
Top 10 LTE service innovations
The global roll-out of LTE has been beneficial to all parties involved although, there is a danger that some operators could risk commoditizing their data services by focusing on just price and data volume.
In order to differentiate their offerings, operators are creating innovative data services that meet their subscribers' needs. These include data roaming propositions, time of day offers, TV and entertainment content and flexible data rollover services.
Download this white paper to discover:
10 Innovative use cases delivering additional value to subscribers
How operators are leveraging the capabilities of LTE to drive differentiation
Examples from global operators including AT&T, Telus, Optus, Mobinil and Vodafone
Download
In order to differentiate their offerings, operators are creating innovative data services that meet their subscribers' needs. These include data roaming propositions, time of day offers, TV and entertainment content and flexible data rollover services.
Download this white paper to discover:
10 Innovative use cases delivering additional value to subscribers
How operators are leveraging the capabilities of LTE to drive differentiation
Examples from global operators including AT&T, Telus, Optus, Mobinil and Vodafone
Download
The next 25 years
If there’s one thing that can be said with certainty of the last 25 years of telecoms, it’s that few people in 1990 could have predicted what the telecoms landscape would look like 25 years later.
This became strikingly clear as we dug through back issues of Telecom Asia in preparation for this 25th Anniversary issue. The Asia telecoms landscape in 1990 was an era of analog circuits and (mostly) government monopolies. In most Asian markets there were at most two operators - one monopoly for domestic telephony and one for international. In many countries the waiting list for a telephone line was measured in years. POTS networks (as they were known - award yourself ten (10) points if you remember what that stands for) were only just starting to go digital with ISDN. For international connectivity, carriers were debating whether Sonet or SDH would (or should) replace PDH as a way to synchronize long-haul digital traffic. There was no Google. There was no internet (not commercially). There was no broadband. Mobile was rare, and mostly analog (commercial GSM wouldn’t be commercially live until 1991).
So imagine going back in time to 1990 and explaining a 4G smartphone to a telecoms executive in Asia (or anywhere else, really) - its computing power, its storage capability, data speeds, apps, the 20MP webcam, etc.
You get the idea.
So if Asia telecoms in 2015 is fantastically futuristic by 1990 standards, the Asia telecoms landscape of 2040 will appear almost as fantastically advanced to residents of 2015 - so much so that making any predictions of the how telecoms trends will play out beyond 2025 or so is probably pointless.
But it sure is fun.
While we may not know exactly what the 2040 telecoms market in Asia will be like, we can point to the key ingredients that will help shape it over the next quarter-century, from technologies, consumer trends and research projects already in play, to external trends and variables that have nothing to do with telecoms and/or technology. Here are the ones that are worth keeping in mind as the telecoms sector kicks off the next 25 years of innovation.
This became strikingly clear as we dug through back issues of Telecom Asia in preparation for this 25th Anniversary issue. The Asia telecoms landscape in 1990 was an era of analog circuits and (mostly) government monopolies. In most Asian markets there were at most two operators - one monopoly for domestic telephony and one for international. In many countries the waiting list for a telephone line was measured in years. POTS networks (as they were known - award yourself ten (10) points if you remember what that stands for) were only just starting to go digital with ISDN. For international connectivity, carriers were debating whether Sonet or SDH would (or should) replace PDH as a way to synchronize long-haul digital traffic. There was no Google. There was no internet (not commercially). There was no broadband. Mobile was rare, and mostly analog (commercial GSM wouldn’t be commercially live until 1991).
So imagine going back in time to 1990 and explaining a 4G smartphone to a telecoms executive in Asia (or anywhere else, really) - its computing power, its storage capability, data speeds, apps, the 20MP webcam, etc.
You get the idea.
So if Asia telecoms in 2015 is fantastically futuristic by 1990 standards, the Asia telecoms landscape of 2040 will appear almost as fantastically advanced to residents of 2015 - so much so that making any predictions of the how telecoms trends will play out beyond 2025 or so is probably pointless.
But it sure is fun.
While we may not know exactly what the 2040 telecoms market in Asia will be like, we can point to the key ingredients that will help shape it over the next quarter-century, from technologies, consumer trends and research projects already in play, to external trends and variables that have nothing to do with telecoms and/or technology. Here are the ones that are worth keeping in mind as the telecoms sector kicks off the next 25 years of innovation.
Friday, 27 February 2015
2015 Telecoms.com Global Industry Survey Report
The 2015 Telecoms.com Intelligence Annual Industry Survey has garnered responses from 2,066 professionals from all parts of the telecoms sector. This is a substantial representation of today’s industry, with more than half of all responses coming directly from service providers, and represents one of the industry’s broadest and most comprehensive analysis pieces available today.
Surprises and contradictions are what one tends to look for when examining the results of surveys such as this and there were several that stood out. Take multiplay, for example, where the trend’s early movements came from fixed-line and internet service providers adding TV offerings to its portfolio. Surprisingly, the majority of respondents (60%) believe it will indeed by mobile operators who are in the strongest competitive position to move towards multiplay.
But clearly identified by operator respondents as the biggest challenge facing operators over the next five years was competitive pressure between operators (64%), swiftly followed up by competitive pressure faced by OTT content providers. Compared to last year, when the majority of respondents saw regulatory pressure on pricing as the biggest challenge facing the industry, this marks a substantial shift in mind-set sweeping across the industry.
The survey was wide-ranging in scope. Telecom.com had asked the industry about operators' BSS strategies, the ongoing mission of deploying and expanding LTE networks, the move towards NFV and SDN-based network management, and telco network security among other issues. The benefits and challenges associated with each of these areas of operator focus emerged clearly, with network performance and quality of service for customers among the dominant concerns throughout.
Access this free report of the findings
Surprises and contradictions are what one tends to look for when examining the results of surveys such as this and there were several that stood out. Take multiplay, for example, where the trend’s early movements came from fixed-line and internet service providers adding TV offerings to its portfolio. Surprisingly, the majority of respondents (60%) believe it will indeed by mobile operators who are in the strongest competitive position to move towards multiplay.
But clearly identified by operator respondents as the biggest challenge facing operators over the next five years was competitive pressure between operators (64%), swiftly followed up by competitive pressure faced by OTT content providers. Compared to last year, when the majority of respondents saw regulatory pressure on pricing as the biggest challenge facing the industry, this marks a substantial shift in mind-set sweeping across the industry.
The survey was wide-ranging in scope. Telecom.com had asked the industry about operators' BSS strategies, the ongoing mission of deploying and expanding LTE networks, the move towards NFV and SDN-based network management, and telco network security among other issues. The benefits and challenges associated with each of these areas of operator focus emerged clearly, with network performance and quality of service for customers among the dominant concerns throughout.
Access this free report of the findings
Wednesday, 28 September 2011
ICT News: Telecom, Govt, Policy, Compliance -- Aug 2011
• The high-level Empowered Committee, tasked with promoting semiconductor manufacturing in India, to submit its report to the Government after August.
• Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS) has asked the Competition Commission of India to investigate the “potential anti-competitive conduct” of Facebook arising out of `Facebook Credits'.
• A Parliamentary panel has slammed the IT Department on the “under utilisation of outlay” for National e-Governance Plan.
• India had received the nod to introduce IDNs in Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, Bengali and Urdu.
• Mahindra Satyam slapped Rs 2,114-cr income-tax notice
• Telecom Commission has given its nod to imposing a uniform licence fee of 8.5% on all telecom operators as against operators currently paying between 6% and 10% of their annual revenues as licence fee.
• TRAI had suggested roll out obligation based on population whereby operators would be required to cover all areas with more than 10,000 people within two years and 2,000-5,000 people in four years.
• Infotech Dept exempts outsourcers from tough data privacy rules.
• Nearly 13 million subscribers have changed their service provider using the Mobile Number Portability facility since November 2010.
• According to TRAI the total wireless subscriber base increased from 840.28 million in May to 851.70 million at the end of June, a growth of 1.36%.
• Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS) has asked the Competition Commission of India to investigate the “potential anti-competitive conduct” of Facebook arising out of `Facebook Credits'.
• A Parliamentary panel has slammed the IT Department on the “under utilisation of outlay” for National e-Governance Plan.
• India had received the nod to introduce IDNs in Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, Bengali and Urdu.
• Mahindra Satyam slapped Rs 2,114-cr income-tax notice
• Telecom Commission has given its nod to imposing a uniform licence fee of 8.5% on all telecom operators as against operators currently paying between 6% and 10% of their annual revenues as licence fee.
• TRAI had suggested roll out obligation based on population whereby operators would be required to cover all areas with more than 10,000 people within two years and 2,000-5,000 people in four years.
• Infotech Dept exempts outsourcers from tough data privacy rules.
• Nearly 13 million subscribers have changed their service provider using the Mobile Number Portability facility since November 2010.
• According to TRAI the total wireless subscriber base increased from 840.28 million in May to 851.70 million at the end of June, a growth of 1.36%.
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