Tag: Revenue
SAN FRANCISCO/BENGALURU (Reuters) – Twitter Inc reported its slowest revenue growth since going public in 2013 and set a disappointing forecast, fanning concerns that faster growing social media services will make it a niche product. The microblogging service operator’s shares fell 11 percent in extended trading to $16.40. While Twitter struggles to find a way […]
Premium subscribers constitute a disproportionate share of revenue – identifying these customers and tailoring tariffs to their needs using established quantitative processes are key to increasing revenue share. As mobile penetration in most markets is approaching saturation, MNOs are increasingly focusing on premium subscribers and revenue market share rather than all subscribers and subscriber market […]
HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd has posted its biggest annual revenue growth since 2008, boosted by China’s adoption of fourth-generation (4G) mobile technology and strong sales of smartphone worldwide. Huawei, one of the world’s largest telecom equipment makers, said total revenue rose 37 percent to 395 billion yuan ($61.10 billion) in 2015, […]
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, one of the world’s largest telecom equipment makers, on Monday posted a 30 percent increase in first-half revenue to 175.9 billion yuan ($28.3 billion) and said it would achieve “effective growth” in 2015. The Shenzhen-based company, which competes with Sweden’s Ericsson for the top spot in the […]
A new report from Juniper Research has claimed that voice and messaging traffic lost to OTT (Over The Top) players such as WhatsApp, Facebook and Skype will cost network operators $14 billion in revenues globally this year, up by 26% on 2013. The report – Mobile Operator Business Models: Challenges, Opportunities & Strategies 2014-2019 – found that in a […]
Despite the telecoms industry’s supposed maturity and expertise at being able to charge and bill correctly for any type of service it still manages to make headlines when it ‘stuffs up.’ And it is ‘stuffing up’ regularly! The latest round of ‘look how telcos get it wrong’ news featured T-Mobile, the ‘uncarrier’ scoring a bulls-eye […]
In the last couple of days I’ve been reading about an event that will, according to one publication, ‘send shivers down the spine of telecoms executives’ and was reported by CBS Moneywatch with the headline ‘Mobile industry starts turning upside down’. This is not Armageddon or a plague but a recent report from Ovum forecasting […]
Our industry is constantly worrying about its future. The general feeling out there is that we are shuffling towards the edge of a cliff. So if someone stood up at a conference and said, “Overall, the wireless industry remains resilient and continues to perform above expectations…” we might be forgiven for laughing. But so said […]
It is forecast season again and it is looking gloomy for communications in Europe. Ovum predicts that telecoms companies will lose $23 billion that they would otherwise taken in SMS revenue to Over The Top (OTT) messaging apps this year. They see this drain rising to $54 billion by 2016. Combine this with the prediction from […]
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