Telecom

Malaysia had 44.6 million mobile service subscriptions with a penetration rate of 143.7% in 2016. Mobile penetration has been on a decline since 2014 as a result of the introduction of GST in 2015. The mobile services market is highly prepaid in nature with 77.1% prepaid. Postpaid subscriptions have been increasing as a result of more competitive b...

The SD-WAN market has emerged out of the early adopter stage and entered the growth stage of the product lifecycle. Key factors driving market adoption include: cost savings from efficient usage of private and public networks, ability to optimize hybrid cloud connectivity, and application-aware routing. Below is a summary of key research findings o...

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is witnessing a surge migration within the region and to other parts of the world such as North America and Europe. As a continent, Africa had a net migration population of over 11 million in 2015, predominantly economic migration. • This has been instrumental in the growing volume of international remittances flowing int...

Businesses of every size and industry rely on a wide array of technology to enable communication and collaboration among employees, customers, suppliers and partners. Yet, all too often, businesses are compelled to work around the limitations of these tools. Business processes and workflows are sometimes structured around the communications platfor...

Attempts to build giant collaborative spaces, to encourage interaction among employees, have the effect of interrupting the flow of cognition essential to creative thought. And, while collaboration is optimized, collaborative efforts often can’t compensate for the interruptions that destroy attention. Modern working arrangements are sacrificing i...

Stratecast’s 2017 Bundle Tracker apprises the reader of the competitive landscape of leading service providers—which offer home phone, broadband, video and wireless services—in the consumer communication services market; and explores how consumers gauge consumer bundles based on survey results from Stratecast’s 2017 consumer communication s...

The latter half of 2016 and first half of 2017 witnessed a barrage of managed SD-WAN service announcements from NSPs in the US market. Because WAN links are integral to a software-defined hybrid WAN, leading NSPs have added SD-WAN capabilities to their existing hybrid WAN solutions to retain existing customers and tap into upsell opportunities. I...

The overall research objective is to measure the current use and future decision making behavior toward unified communications and other workforce technologies around the globe, specifically: desktop video conferencing, room-based video conferencing, huddle room video conferencing (meant for small rooms of up to 4 participants), audio conferencing,...

The Stratecast Operations, Orchestration, Data Analytics & Monetization (ODAM) analyst team has completed its annual assessment of the communications service provider (CSP) monetization. This market is defined by Stratecast to include the key business management functions of: billing mediation, rating & charging, other core billing, and policy mana...