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Snapchat appears to be intending to focus on engagement metrics to justify its $20bn-$25bn valuation in the coming IPO. I see this as a sure sign that real metrics such as revenue and profit will fall far short of that which a regular company would need to justify that valuation. Snapchat is essentially an instant […]
The combination of 4G/LTE smartphones triggers MTN bill shock warning. The MTN bill shock campaign is a call to subscribers to manage their data better. MTN says rapidly depleting data and bill shock are due to increased usage of social media and streaming platforms on mobile devices, as well as faster network speeds due to […]
I love the BBC’s Money Box programme with Paul Lewis and I listen to it every week. A recent episode included what, I’m afraid, has become an all-too-familiar story. Paul Lewis hears from a listener who built up savings of £180,000 over more than ten years in business, only to have it all stolen from […]
Sale of Fabric collapses Twitter’s horizons. With the sale of Fabric to Google, Twitter has essentially given up all hope of becoming an ecosystem and its growth will be totally dependent on its ability to create engagement around media consumption. This means that a blue-sky scenario for Twitter will see it with 28% coverage of the […]
2017 is going to be a pivotal year with the rise in DDoS, with an average of one attack a month reaching at least 1 Tbps in size. In addition, the number of DDoS attacks for the year are expected to reach 10 million, according to the latest technology, media and telecommunications predictions report [PDF] from Deloitte. The […]
The promise of telco virtualisation is that carriers can and will provide services comparable to Google and Amazon. With virtualised network architecture, a telco can launch a service in a couple of months and can even become a marketplace of services such as video streaming, cloud services, security and firewall services. According to VMWare’s Shekar […]
The woeful offline experience offers a real opportunity. It looks like Alibaba is about to take a leap into the offline world as it is the lead contender to buy a struggling retail chain in China for $2.6bn. The company in question is In Time Retail Group which operates 29 department stores and 17 malls predominantly […]
TelecomAsia ran an article on January 11th 2017 on a report from Juniper saying that OTT substitution will cost operators $104 billion this year. Juniper says that the impact of OTT substitution will be the equivalent to 12% of operators’ service revenues. No real surprise there. Voice, messaging and text are all pretty much now commoditised. […]
I’ve worked on identity verification in the UK, both from the customer side and now on the service provider side. Despite the rich data available to organisations to verify the identity of customers electronically, many still insist on seeing a passport or driving licence and some sort of proof of address. I always find this […]
I expect that most of you will by now have read a fair bit about the (to my mind) fabulous living monetary experiment that is India. Obviously, I feel sorry for people who have been (to put it mildly) inconvenienced by the chaos caused by the removal of 85% of the currency “in circulation” in […]
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