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2015 was a landmark year for mobile financial services. Throughout the year, we witnessed unprecedented growth in all areas of MFS...
2015 was a landmark year for mobile financial services. Throughout the year, we witnessed unprecedented growth in all areas of MFS...
The second-hand smartphone market will hit a value of US$17 billion worldwide, while one quarter of smartphone users will no longer make a traditional phone call in a given week, according to Deloitte.
2016 might be the year that Big Data gets smaller – and smarter, according to Tecnotree’s Timo Ahomäki...
There is a “sweeping trend” across the world towards OTT television consumption on mobile devices, which are now the most popular choices for watching paid OTT TV content.
With competition set to increase in 2016 across many emerging markets, differentiating offerings via customer experience and billing will become ever more important, as LogNet’s Kirill Rechter notes…
With access to high-speed data becoming the norm, Openet sees a shift in how content is offered in 2016 as customer experience becomes king.
Yandex Data Factory, the big data analytics arm of Russian search engine provider Yandex, has announced a new partnership with VimpelCom subsidiary brand Beeline.

Small-cell deployment is being considered by mobile operators around the world as a means to satisfy the ever-increasing mobile broadband traffic demand in urban areas.
Ericsson VP of Sustainability, Elaine Weidman-Grunewald discusses the GSMA Humanitarian Connectivity Charter, launched earlier in 2015, with Developing Telecoms.
Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) have long focused on protecting their Person-to-Person (P2P) communications revenue against the rising popularity of OTT messaging, either through partnership opportunities or developing their own competitive services.
Astellia has entered a global framework agreement for RAN optimisation with Telefónica, one of the world’s largest integrated telecommunication operators.
Alec Barton, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Developing Telecoms, spoke to Chris Fabian of UNICEF about some of the key challenges facing MNOs in emerging markets. The full interview can be read in our Special Report, Connected Citizens – Managing Crisis, available to download free of charge here.

The GSMA has announced the appointment of Mats Granryd as new director general and member of the GSMA board, to lead the organisation in its efforts towards "connecting the world".
Facebook’s incoming security chief has asserted that internet users in emerging markets should have the same right to security as those in developed markets.
Developing Telecoms' Special Report on SDN and NFV in Emerging Markets is available to download free of charge.
We live in a data-centric, wireless world, and no technology is better suited to address this reality than Wi-Fi.
2015 will be the year service providers truly identify - and begin filling - the engagement void that exists between them and their customers.

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.
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.
Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) require substantial data capacities for core and trunking services, much of which uses fibre/cable.
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.
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.