Top 10 Telecom trends for 2009

Top 10 telecom trends for 2009

R&D spending in 4G technology in 2009 will happen, which will be able to deliver upto 100Mbps bandwidth with Quality of Service (QoS) and traffic prioritization.

Friday, December 26, 2008

NEW DEL:HI, INDIA: GlobalLogic, AVP, Services, Bharat Bansal envisages the top trends that would impact the telecom industry in 2009

1. Equipment consolidation by putting more functionality at the edge of the network – This will help in minimizing the hardware investments while maintaining highly scalable and flexible networks. For example, rather than purchasing and managing separate devices for edge routing, Ethernet aggregation and subscriber management, carriers are opting for multi-service devices that integrate various functionality into a single routing platform. We expect this trend will continue gaining momentum into next year.

2. Fourth Generation (4G) Technology – R&D spending in 4G technology will happen, which will be able to deliver upto 100Mbps bandwidth with Quality of Service (QoS) and traffic prioritization. Hence, video conferencing using mobile will be possible.

3. Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) – There will be deployments in FMC space leading to a smooth transfer between Fixed and Mobile networks, with rich user experience delivered at lower cost. Thus the gap between wireline and wireless networks will get bridged.

4. Telepresence service is used in video-conferences to give a realization that the participants are all in the same room by using life-sized people and superior voice quality. On the network side this means audio and video delivery using Service Level Agreements on performance guarantees need to be in place. It will save millions of dollar for the company travel cost as well as improve employee productivity besides reducing pollution levels. Hence, in future deeper penetration will happen in the market place with solutions becoming more affordable.

5. Security – Security will continue to be emphasized in 2009 as internet based attacks will become more sophisticated and challenging as profit driven criminals will try to steal the confidential business and personal data.

6. Merger and Acquisition - With the continuation of global financial crisis hitting the carriers, the consolidation in the Telecom industry will keep on happening. This will result into mergers and acquisitions resulting in products consolidations.

7. Service Creation Environment (SCE) – The demand for new services at a fraction of cost with quick to market will rise. Hence, the Service Creation Environment (SCE) will be used extensively and the engineers with this skill-set will be in demand.

8. MVAS services – ARPU (average revenue per user) due to voice will continue to go down and thus the carriers will look for avenues to quickly add more mobile value added services (MVAS) to their portfolio. The new services will see a convergence of voice, data and video.

9. New markets – As the service providers space gets crowded, the carriers will look for newer markets e.g. in India the carriers will continue their march towards the villages.

10. IPTV and DTH – Quite some interest has been generated in the DTH segment in the emerging markets like India. In the coming time, the consolidation of DTH will happen and interest in IPTV will rise, which will lead to Video on demand, interactive games etc.

©CIOL Bureau

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Suraj Bisht said on 12/30/2008 11:21:11 AM:
From my point of view following trends will be more prevalent in india. 1) WiMax presence 2) MVNO 3) Smooth Telecom Business Process following eTOM/TMN M.3050, specially in OSS/BSS point of view 4) Service convergence specially prepaid and postpaid 5) 3G service in Metros 6) Convergence and Packaging of different service domain, DSL/Mobile/DTH. Customer focused packaging 7) Various Security measures from government on Telecom networks 8) Mergers and Acquisition 9) Rural Telephony 10) Extensive IP usage on Mobile

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