--- title: Blogs & Opinion - Developing Telecoms description: Blogs and opinion articles on emerging markets telecoms canonical_url: https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html?start=68 language: en-GB date: 2020-03-02T13:15:19Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html?start=68. markdown-tokens: 3785 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html?start=68. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/david_droz.png) Details David Droz, Telecoms Manager, Urban Green Energy Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 14 January 2013 12012 views Growth is the biggest trend we are going to see in emerging markets. MNO’s will continue to shift their burden of infrastructure management to third parties, competing head to head with co-tenants on shared towers for millions of new customers... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/jeremy-george-2.png) Details Jeremy George, ForgetMeNot Software Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 14 January 2013 9813 views Mobile Network Operators will focus on the core services of voice, SMS and data to the detriment of traditional Value Added Services... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/rob_van_den_dam300x225-.png) Details Rob van den Dam, Global Telecommunications Industry Leader, IBM Institute for Business Value Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 11 January 2013 12211 views Innovative services offered via mobile in emerging markets will continue to flourish in 2013... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/kirill-rechter---lognet-systems-ceo.png) Details Kirill Rechter, CEO, LogNet Systems Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 11 January 2013 11879 views Mobile payments are set to continue their growth throughout 2013... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/karien_ciggaar.png) Details Karien Ciggaar, Sales Director Southern Africa & Hospitality Europe, NEC Unfied Solutions Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 10 January 2013 11572 views Unified communications will be a major trend among organisations in 2013, particularly in emerging markets... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/ilan_seidner300x225.png) Details Ilan Seidner, Director of Marketing Communications, RAD Data Communications Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 10 January 2013 6603 views Among service providers in emerging markets, there is a steady demand for more bandwidth for access network infrastructure and mobile backhaul... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/simon-pearson300x225.png) Details Simon Pearson, Business Development Director, World Telecom Labs Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 09 January 2013 8574 views According to World Telecom Labs (WTL) there have been a number of recurrent themes among emerging market operators across the last year... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/eyal-copitt300x225.png) Details Eyal Copitt, Senior Vice President, Sales Africa, Asia & Marketing, Spacecom Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 09 January 2013 10361 views Spacecom operates its AMOS satellite fleet over Central & Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Among the strongest trends in these markets are the use of satellite to ensure reliable communications for a growing number of enterprise and consumer users who expect high quality service options all the time and everywhere they go... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/thorsten_trapp3-4.png) Details Thorsten Trapp, CTO, Tyntec Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 09 January 2013 12049 views An SMS revival is on the cards for 2013, according to Tyntec... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/mike_obrien-300x225.png) Details Michael O'Brien, Sr. VP, Strategic Market Initiatives, Syniverse Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 08 January 2013 11554 views A richer mobile experience will be a defining trend in emerging markets during 2013... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/daniel-enns-comtech-300x225.png) Details Daniel Enns, SVP Marketing & Business Development, Comtech EF Data Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 08 January 2013 11035 views Mobile will continue to enable innovative new services in emerging markets across 2013... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/pelsonphoto300x225.png) Details Jon Pelson, JDSU Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 07 January 2013 11273 views Increased demand for data-hungry content will be a major trend in 2013. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/jim-machi-300x225.png) Details Jim Machi, Vice President of Marketing, Dialogic Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 07 January 2013 9645 views Mobile congestion will become a major issue in emerging markets during 2013 as smartphones take root... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/beatriz_butsana-sita_2_100x100.png) Details Beatriz Butsana-Sita, Managing Director for BT Global Telecom Markets Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 07 January 2013 11500 views Emerging markets will continue to prove their value in 2013, attracting investment... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/lee-brooks_300x225.png) Details Lee Brooks, Product Marketing Manager, Sandvine Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 02 January 2013 11838 views In my opinion, the three strongest trends in emerging markets in 2013 are: - the **service innovation** that will deliver affordable Internet - the **data growth** that will result from a growing user base, and - the **LTE networks** that will deliver the data. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/shlomo_wolfman_300x225.png) Details Shlomo Wolfman, COO and Co-Founder at Starhome Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 02 January 2013 11556 views LTE compliant solutions will be heavily sought after to enable seamless roaming between 3G and the growing number of LTE networks... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/alexander_zakrytnoy300x225.png) Details Alexander Zakrytnoy, Sales Director with CBOSS Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 02 January 2013 11549 views The proliferation of LTE will be a major trend in 2013. There will be: - faster launches of LTE - growth in smartphone adoption ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/dki.jpg) Details David King, CEO, Flexenclosure Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 01 January 2013 6821 views Green telecom will be the trend for 2013, along with a quest to serve the “Next Billion” mobile customers. In addition, the global data boom will force mobile operators to evalute their business models... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/highResLogos/placeholder-logo_1200x900.png) Details Torbjorn Sandberg, CEO, Netadmin Systems Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 01 January 2013 6320 views Fixed-mobile divergence is the top trend in 2013... - Fixed-mobile divergence will be here to stay - Sharing of networks - Focus on advanced Operations Support Systems (OSS) ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/highResLogos/placeholder-logo_1200x900.png) Details Einar Ahlström, CEO, Cellmax Technologies Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 01 January 2013 7987 views The key trend in 2013 will be the development of smarter mobile infrastructure. There will be... - A new focus on antennas for base stations - A quest to reduce signal wastage ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/jerker-hellstrom-handheld-1.jpg) Details Jerker Hellström, CEO, Handheld Group Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 01 January 2013 6867 views The trend for 2013 will be True mobility in the workplace: - A renewed focus on ‘total cost of ownership’ of mobile computers - The emergence of Android as a valid operating system choice for mobile devices for enterprises ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/sven-hammar.jpg) Details Sven Hammar, CEO, Apica Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 01 January 2013 6683 views Mobile devices overtake desktops with... - A shift to a device-driven and faster Internet - Internet backup - The ‘social' DDoS attack ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/Features/last_mile300x225.png) Details James Barton Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 13 December 2012 15865 views In many emerging markets there is a need for more spectrum, both for backhaul and access. This is because there is a lot of growth and no alternative – GPON and DSL connections typically aren’t present, and they are often difficult to deploy in more remote regions. High-capacity last-mile solutions are far preferable to emerging market providers - spectrum is a scarce resource, so it’s important to find more intelligent ways to make use of it... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/Features/wifi-offload300x225.jpg) Details James Barton Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 25 October 2012 10409 views The top priority of any wireless provider is to make sure that the wireless signal from a device gets into the ground as soon as possible. To do this, it’s crucial to make efficient use of the available spectrum... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/highResLogos/placeholder-logo_1200x900.png) Details James Barton Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 15 August 2012 14909 views There has been a vast increase in data growth in most markets over the last few years, with rising mobile penetration in the rural regions of emerging markets often cited as a key driver for competitiveness. This has lead to many discussions on how best to develop and promote mobile penetration in rural areas, with the most notable issues being those of infrastructure deployment and backhauling. Handling the boom in data-hungry services requires reliable networks that can offer increased capacity, but delivering such coverage to rural areas presents many challenges... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/jerker-hellstrom_300x225.jpg) Details Jerker Hellström Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 26 July 2012 9195 views We are going through a radical shift in the way people work and use computers. Increasing availability and affordability of wireless broadband is giving the global workforce true mobility, for the first time in history. Many of them will use smartly designed mobile rugged computers for their everyday computing and communication needs, instead of traditional laptops. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/gary-alleman_300x225.jpg) Details Gary Allemann, senior consultant at Master Data Management Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 06 March 2012 12672 views The digital revolution has given rise to a literal explosion of data, as the volume of information shared, distributed and stored increases exponentially on a daily basis. An ever-growing list of regulatory compliance adds to the burden, generating masses of additional data that needs to be managed. This is further complicated by emerging trends such as big data, cloud data, change data capture, data integration, data analysis and so on... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/Case_Studies/lte-logo-1.jpg) Details James Barton Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 05 March 2012 12438 views Mobile World Congress (MWC) is the industry’s main opportunity every year to trumpet the achievements of mobile communications, great as these undoubtedly are. Indeed it has long been our belief that mobile phones are right up there with the Honda 125cc moped and Penicillin as technologies having the greatest transformative effect on the lives of people in the developing world... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/alpesh_patel300x225.jpg) Details Alpesh Patel, CEO of Mi-Fone Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 20 February 2012 11409 views Africa's journey into the age of the Knowledge Economy and telephonic communication has, until recently, been a laborious and slow process, all the while the rest of the world’s usage has only but boomed... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/Features/2012.jpg) Details Alec Barton Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 13 January 2012 14890 views To start off the new year, we here at **Developing Telecoms** thought it would be interesting to take stock of the market and identify what the top telecom trends in emerging markets will be during 2012. We decided that the best way of doing this would be to ask the people who really know: top executives at network operators, services providers and equipment vendors who work in the market and are experiencing developments first hand... ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/carlos-slim300x225.jpg) Details Alec Barton Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 01 November 2011 11537 views “ITU Telecom World 2011 sets new paradigm for top-level networking and knowledge-sharing”. So said the announcement at the end of ITU Telecom World 2011 – but does it really? And what exactly was new about the paradigm for top level networking and knowledge sharing in Geneva? Details Manu Bonnassie, Brocade Communications Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 24 October 2011 10304 views Adoption of Unified Communications technology is reaching critical mass, corroborated by a report from In-Stat earlier this year that predicted small office spending on IP telephony would grow by 83 per cent in 2011... Details James Barton Category: [Blogs & Opinion](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-blogs-opinion.html) 01 July 2011 9103 views African leaders have been advised to take social media, such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, more seriously or potentially lose power...