--- title: 2014 Trends - Developing Telecoms description: Telecommunications trends and forecasts in emerging markets canonical_url: https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/178-2014-trends.html?start=34 language: en-GB date: 2015-01-06T15:43:18Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/178-2014-trends.html?start=34. markdown-tokens: 1742 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/178-2014-trends.html?start=34. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/Tunde-Hussain600.jpg) Details Tunde Hussain Category: [2014 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/178-2014-trends.html) 15 January 2014 9847 views This year will certainly be an interesting year – besides the worldwide trend of more bandwidth to users through network densification, from our perspective in Africa the networks will continue their expansions, but place much more emphasis on increasing their return from customers. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/eran_sagi_600.jpg) Details Eran Sagi Category: [2014 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/178-2014-trends.html) 15 January 2014 9196 views 2014 will be the year that a number of technologies gain traction in emerging markets. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/Macario-Namie600.jpg) Details Macario Namie Category: [2014 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/178-2014-trends.html) 14 January 2014 10190 views Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, the technology enabling a global mobile Internet of Things, is booming and will continue to attract investment in 2014. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/chris_buist600.jpg) Details Chris Buist Category: [2014 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/178-2014-trends.html) 14 January 2014 9947 views In markets where there is a dominant mobile operator, it is likely that the industry will begin to see wholesale LTE networks being launched in order to address any concerns the operator has regarding the roll out of rural mobile broadband coverage and to assist with the ability to allocate spectrum fairly. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/dan_zajicek600.jpg) Details Dan Zajicek Category: [2014 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/178-2014-trends.html) 13 January 2014 8265 views Despite a few predictions that demand for satellite would start to drop away as the amount of operational fibre in Africa increased, the opposite has occurred. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/nic_rudnick.jpg) Details Nic Rudnick Category: [2014 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/178-2014-trends.html) 13 January 2014 9836 views In 2014 social media and locally-generated content and services using platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, WeChat, YouTube and other IP content providers will drive an explosion in both Internet traffic and broadband penetration in Africa. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/TaraVanUnen_600.jpg) Details Tara Van Unen Category: [2014 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/178-2014-trends.html) 10 January 2014 11833 views In 2014, JDSU predicts a focus on the notion of self-organization in the mobile backhaul network. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/StephenHire600.jpg) Details Stephen Hire Category: [2014 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/178-2014-trends.html) 10 January 2014 11107 views 2014 will be a defining year for LTE as many more operators in developing markets launch their LTE services, including two anticipated launches in India. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/johan_de_lange600.jpg) Details Johan de Lange Category: [2014 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/178-2014-trends.html) 09 January 2014 10611 views Mobile technology has caused a leapfrog phenomenon in emerging markets, bolstering the consumer at the center of their daily commerce – enabling them to choose how, when and what to purchase from any location. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/Morgan-Kurk-CommScope600.jpg) Details Morgan Kurk Category: [2014 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/178-2014-trends.html) 09 January 2014 11458 views The newest focus in the wireless industry globally is LTE. GSMA Intelligence expects the number of LTE connections worldwide to pass one billion by 2017. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/David_Droz_400.jpg) Details David Droz Category: [2014 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/178-2014-trends.html) 08 January 2014 13527 views Scale. It’s the eternal new years resolution, and I’m not talking about losing weight. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/Jim-Demarco600.jpg) Details James DeMarco Category: [2014 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/178-2014-trends.html) 08 January 2014 10702 views There are a number of trends that have the potential to significantly impact telecoms. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/Mike_vandenburgh600.jpg) Details Mike van den Bergh Category: [2014 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/178-2014-trends.html) 07 January 2014 11344 views 2014 will be a breakthrough year for LTE in emerging markets. Where deployed it will begin to have a real impact, dramatically increasing the speed of mobile internet and helping to expand new markets. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/Daniel-Jaeger-600.jpg) Details Daniel Jaeger Category: [2014 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/178-2014-trends.html) 07 January 2014 9483 views With the growing number of affordable smartphones and other mobile computing devices in Africa, more and more people in the region are using them for social networking, Internet browsing and e-mail, online gaming and video viewing applications. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/Claude-Sassoulet.jpg) Details Claude Sassoulas Category: [2014 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/178-2014-trends.html) 06 January 2014 10954 views We have invested billions of dollars in infrastructure into and within emerging markets over the past 7 to 8 years. Our priority is now to fully leverage these investments and provide our global enterprise customers with end-to-end managed services. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/michal-harris-600.jpg) Details Michal Harris Category: [2014 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/178-2014-trends.html) 06 January 2014 15293 views 2013 saw service providers under serious pressure to differentiate themselves from competitors and deliver innovative new services, whilst also striving to simplify the customer experience, harness big data and optimise operations.