What do voice revenues and Prince Harry have in common?

It’s so funny how we don’t talk anymore. How true those immortal words from a classic Cliff Richard song have become for CSPs worldwide. With voice volumes and corresponding revenues dropping faster than Prince Harry’s trousers, telcos need to ask if it’s due to OTT...

Like an open book with some pages stuck together

I use social media, I write about it, question it, wonder at it and, more than occasionally, gets very irritated by it and those that abuse it. Issues around privacy continue to be the greatest bugbear and it is quite interesting that the biggest potential abusers of...

All you can eat makes a comeback

It was only a matter of time! Those yummy, all-you-can-eat (AYCE) data plans are back in vogue at T-Mobile in the US, albeit with some caveats. It seems that either competitive market forces or good old common sense came into play with this decision, which, on closer...

Making 'moola' from OTT

Quite often, I am sent reports from analysts, survey firms, vendors and even other industry bodies. Very often, these are sponsored by one of the above, either hoping to sell detailed analysis reports or show their own products and services in a glowing light. That,...

Oh no, not another mobile payments service!

After what seems like an eternity of pondering and indecision, the finance, telecoms and retail worlds appear to be embracing mobile payments and mobile wallets, unfortunately, not in unison. News comes this week that a dozen leading US retail giants are finally...