By Tarcisio Ribeiro, Vice President, Europe, Middle East and Africa Sales – January 26, 2012 / 8:52 AM
European mobile service providers are in a fierce competition. Voice and messaging revenues are down, and the number of new subscribers is slowing. Operators must compete just to keep their current subscribers.
According to Infonetics, mobile broadband is driving network and business model transformation. Mobile data traffic is growing exponentially, but mobile broadband revenue is not growing to the same proportions. Many mobile network operators are becoming victims of their own success. I recently met with a leading operator in EMEA, and they shared with me that 95% of their capital expenses are invested in data--though it only generates only 5% of their profits.
This scenario requires operators to re-think their business models and network strategies.
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By Adrien Joseph, Sales Director – December 19, 2011 / 11:20 AM
For most operators, bandwidth demands are accelerating faster than they can cost-effectively support. To keep up, operators need to gain more visibility into, and control of, their mobile networks. To get this control and visibility, operators need smarter networks.
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By Dr. Vikram Saksena, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer – December 5, 2011 / 1:03 PM
In our latest STL Research report, we outlined several moves operators can make to profit from skyrocketing mobile Internet growth. They need to provide more valuable services that others are willing to pay for–which requires a smart network. One specific way operators can deliver value is by building their own Content Delivery Network (CDN) in addition to their mobile network, and charging cloud providers for access.
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By Ralph Candiloro, Vice President, Asia Pacific – December 1, 2011 / 10:00 AM
Mobile markets are saturating and over-the-top (OTT) services are clogging up the network. Our CTO, Dr. Vikram Saksena, recently wrote about how operators can turn to network intelligence to deliver smart services, as a way to double their profits in an era of skyrocketing mobile data growth.
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By Stuart Benington, Director of Portfolio Strategy – November 21, 2011 / 9:39 AM
This article was originally published in the Fierce Wireless eBook, Telco Backhaul Strategies.
Most operators' ultimate goal is a fiber-based Ethernet backhaul network. Fiber has virtually unlimited capacity. Plus, compared with TDM or SDH/SONET, Ethernet offers lower costs, greater scalability and flexibility and better support for IP-based applications.
With these benefits, you'd expect operators to rush to implement fiber-based Ethernet backhaul. However, that's not the case.
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