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Internet of Things (IoT) & Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Market worth $498.92 Billion by 2019 A new report title “The Wireless M2M & IoT Bible” forecasts the wireless M2M market to account for $196 billion in revenue by the end of 2020 Following a CAGR of 21% during the six year period between...
Tigo launches unlimited music streaming service in Ghana Ghana will be the first country to get Tigo Music as the operator rolls out its streaming music service across the continent. Tigo Music has been a successful brand for Millicom across its Latin American properties The announcement comes hot on...
Vodafone launches Hajj roaming data plans The Hajj is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca Saudi Arabia). Vodafone along with other operators have introduced a Hajj-specific package for pilgrims. This years’ Hajj is expected to bring around 1.2 million visitors to Saudi Arabia. That’s quite an impressive flash crowd...
Africa’s MTN reinvents itself via music I an attempt to stave off declining revenues from traditional sources, MTN Africa is looking towards services for growth. MTN Nigeria launched “Music +”, a streaming service for local music, where it uses partnerships with Nigerian artists to enable subscribers to stream their...
OTT revenues to rocket to $42 billion by 2020 According to a new report from Digital TV Research: Global online TV and video OTT revenues (over fixed broadband networks for 51 countries) will reach $42.34 billion in 2020; up from $3.96 billion recorded in 2010 and the $19.03 billion...
The FCC Hasn’t Decided How It Will Enforce Net Neutrality Federal Communications Commission (FCC) indicated in a blog post that it is “reviewing” a number of legal methods concerning how to enforce new net neutrality rules. Actually this is what it says: “A cross-bureau group of staff are reviewing...
MTN boss derides OTT ‘free riders’ MTN South Africa CEO Ahmad Farroukh has come out all guns blazing taking on the so-called OTT “free riders”. Mr. Farroukh said that mobile operators and OTT players — they include companies such as Google, Facebook and WhatsApp — have to reach a...
The Music Streaming Battle Is Up In the Air According to this article Music Streaming has a great future. Still in its adolescence, if not infancy, music streaming is set to make someone a bundle. The question here is “for whom”? This article covers only the Over-The-Top Streaming music...
Netflix Seeks OVD Conditions on AT&T/DirecTV Netflix has notified the FCC that the merger should not be given the green light if there are no provisions for guarding against anti-competitive behavior. Netflix suggests potential anti-competitive practices may include paid peering and data caps. AT&T and Netflix have traded words in...
Rogers CEO says industry needs to change way it markets wireless data Rogers CEO, Guy Laurence, says operators need to “change the philosophy of how we sell data so it’s as easy as buying petrol,” He draws the analogy between a car running on gas (petrol) to an internet...
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