--- title: 2015 Trends - Developing Telecoms description: Telecommunications trends and forecasts in emerging markets canonical_url: https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/179-2015-trends.html?start=34 language: en-GB date: 2016-01-04T15:39:41Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/179-2015-trends.html?start=34. markdown-tokens: 1087 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/179-2015-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/Bartosz_CEO_600.jpg) Details Bartosz Leoszewski Category: [2015 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/179-2015-trends.html) 13 January 2015 8934 views Stop thinking about smartphone market as the battle between Apple and Samsung. It was never true for emerging markets. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/Nigel-Eastwood---600.jpg) Details Nigel Eastwood Category: [2015 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/179-2015-trends.html) 13 January 2015 10530 views What will happen in 2015? Growth will, of course, continue. There is still huge pent-up demand for telecoms services in the burgeoning middle classes and aspirational consumers in the emerging markets. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/RichardDoughty.jpg) Details Richard Doughty Category: [2015 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/179-2015-trends.html) 12 January 2015 9909 views It is a cliché that necessity is the mother of invention. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/Noha_Sadek600_2.jpg) Details Noha Sadek Category: [2015 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/179-2015-trends.html) 12 January 2015 12414 views 2015 will be a year that brings various evolutions to developing and emerging markets. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/Shlomi-Moscovici-600.jpg) Details Shlomi Moscovici Category: [2015 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/179-2015-trends.html) 09 January 2015 13367 views The majority of service providers in Africa continue to grow slowly, mostly due to population growth, but ARPUs remain stubbornly low and it’ll be tough to introduce expensive new services in 2015. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/Stephen-Keenan-600.jpg) Details Stephen Keenan Category: [2015 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/179-2015-trends.html) 08 January 2015 10790 views As enterprises around the world begin to plan for the year to come, Verizon’s annual view on enterprise-technology trends offers a timely reminder of what’s shaping the technology market from the business perspective. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/Craig-Friderichs600.jpg) Details Craig Friderichs Category: [2015 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/179-2015-trends.html) 07 January 2015 8285 views The potential of mobile and ICT to support behavior change, supply chain, health financing, health worker enablement and other critical services has been well documented but we have yet to see significant scale and integration into the health system. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/Jay-Hinman-VP-Operator-Solutions-Opera-Software.jpg) Details Jay Hinman Category: [2015 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/179-2015-trends.html) 06 January 2015 15372 views 2015 is a year in which we’ll likely see a great deal of attention paid in emerging markets to how data revenues will need to quickly bridge the gap that stems from rapidly declining SMS and voice revenues. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/Features/2015_wires.jpg) Details James Barton Category: [2015 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/179-2015-trends.html) 06 January 2015 9435 views Happy New Year from Developing Telecoms! ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/Morgan-Kurk-CommScope600.jpg) Details Morgan Kurk Category: [2015 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/179-2015-trends.html) 06 January 2015 11729 views Wireless network operators are under increasing pressure to provide more capacity, coverage and quality without increasing end user price.