Telecom

The mobile telecoms market in Asia-Pacific consisted of 4.04 billion subscribers in 2017, and is expected to grow to reach 4.58 billion by 2021, with the CAGR (2017–2021) estimated at 3.1%. Across Asia-Pacific, increasing competition is placing further pressure on revenues and margins. YoY revenue growth and CAGR growth are at an all-time low, at...

The Chinese market for mobile payment offers not only market opportunities for solution providers intending to operate within the domestic market but also learning points for global mobile payment solution providers. China is a unique case study that can showcase to the world that cashless societies are becoming increasingly possible. Already, 40% ...

The SD-WAN market will present a huge transformation in the telecommunication market over the next 5 years in Latin America as the traditional wide area networks (WANs) are under pressure to keep up with increased enterprise demand for agile, bandwidth-heavy, and latency-sensitive to access and utilize information. The SD-WAN solution uses softwa...

Voice and Messaging Services have evolved over the past few decades. In recent years, Over-the-Top (OTT) participants such as WeChat, WhatsApp, and LINE have introduced rich multimedia messaging services that SMS could not provide. These OTT applications have also granted users the ability to make international voice calls at a low cost or even for...

For over a decade Microsoft has made concerted efforts to establish itself as a major provider of real-time business communications solutions, including enterprise voice and unified communications (UC) services. After gaining a considerable share in the premises-based communications systems market, Microsoft now aspires to capitalize on growing cus...

In 2016 and 2017, the economic crisis and political instability severely affected our forecasts. Throughout 2018, the basic interest rate is expected to continue declining and forecasts of agribusiness crops have positive GDP expectations. Inflation and interest rates in decline will enable the return of foreign investments. As the payback period...

In the telecom service industry, the data communications market is one of the most competitive in Latin America. The average revenue per line (ARPL) for data communications services has been declining in recent years due to migration from legacy circuits to Internet protocol (IP) technologies, expense control by enterprises and governments, and als...

Biometric identification and authentication is well positioned to complement and potentially replace existing traditional verification processes such as those using pins and passwords, security questions, and even personal identity verification. The role of biometrics is becoming more important now that the industry is heading towards becoming mobi...