Telcos

Telco Deep Dive: It’s always sizzling in the telco space
On May 26, Digital News Asia (DNA) released its first Deep Dive report, which looked at the telecommunications space in Malaysia. Over the next two weeks, we will be publishing the articles from the PDF report on our portal, plus other stories. In this article, DNA founder Karamjit Singh takes a quick look at the industry and explains the rationale behind the Telco Deep Dive report.
Global 4G/LTE divide will be wide in 2019: Ericsson Mobility Report
The number of active cellular Machine-to-Machine (M2M) devices will increase three to four times by 2019, from 200 million at the end of 2013, according to the latest Ericsson Mobility Report.
Deep Dive: It’s sizzling in the telco world
DNA founder Karamjit Singh is excited to share news of DNA’s first Deep Dive on the telecommunications sector.
No 1 risk for telcos is failure to adapt to new technologies: EY study
Telcos must reposition their business models and adapt to new roles across a growing number of new technologies or risk losing major growth opportunities, warns a new report by EY.
Building for data needs a fresh approach: Ericsson
According to a June 2013 Mobility Report released by Ericsson, a smartphone user is expected to more than quadruple mobile monthly data consumption from 450MB to an average of 2GB data per user in 2018. With the consumption of digital content via mobile devices set to rise even more in the coming years, mobile network operators need to brace themselves and their infrastructure to handle the load.
Week in Review: What’s driving Syed Mokhtar’s telco interest?
There's a new telco in town with the recent launch of Altel Communications, a subsidiary of Puncak Semangat Sdn Bhd. But the real question on most minds including DNA CEO Karamjit Singh is this: “Is Syed Mokhtar really serious about being a telco player?”
SMEs to drive innovation in Internet-related services: McKinsey
In the next two to three years, Asia will see very rapid innovation and proliferation of Internet-related services amongst small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), says McKinsey Global Institute.
Social messaging apps will cost operators US$32.6bil: Ovum
Research firm Ovum has forecast that social messaging apps will cost operators US$32.6 billion in 2013, growing to over US$86 billion in 2020, with pace in the space picking up this year.
Week in Review: A once hot start-up fights to stay relevant
Karamjit Singh shines the spolight this week on Green Packet, its fight to stay relevant against the big telco boys, and the cost a change in strategy must entail for determined entrepenuers.
Week in Review: Mat Rakyat to be the ultimate winner in spectrum race
Week In Review by Digital News Asia CEO Karamjit Singh. This week, telco matter take the spotlight as DiGi gets hit by RM10,000 fine for poor customer service and the race for more spectrum will be decided by who serves their customer the best.
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