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February 07, 2011

Global Telecom Industry at Crossroads

By Gary Kim, Contributing Editor


After 20 years of growth fueled by mobile services and emerging markets, the industry has reached a key turning point, argue analysts at PRTM. On one hand, global voice accounts have reached an all-time high of five billion connections. But a huge transformation is coming. 

Over the next decade, "we are likely to see a fundamental role reversal between fixed and mobile networks in developed markets,” according to analysts at PRTM. Over the next 10 years, mobile operators will be the ones providing universal voice service, and fixed operators will provide high-performance "premium" services, something of a complete reversal of the past 25 years, where it was the mobile networks that provided "premium" services, while fixed line networks were relied upon to... Read More >>>


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