ISSUE 03 2014
MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS
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Jim Machi of Dialogic summed up the main themes of MWC as 5G – the next generation of mobile broadband to begin deployment in 2018-2020; VoLTE (Voice over LTE), the connected home, Digital Life, and IoT (Internet of Things)
and for me it’s the most critical we face, yet it didn’t receive one mention at MWC. This is why I’m trying to help build the telecom application development community from the grassroot through TADHack and TADSummit – this is an important part of our future.
Though they received little coverage there were some significant announcements both at MWC and outside on the telecom application developer ecosystem:
nAT&T invested $300 million in its solution providers effort, driving more API development.
nUbuntu had a rash of announcements on the Ubuntu phone at MWC. They’re creating an amazing platform and this is one to watch. They will have more exciting announcements coming up on
TADHack.com with the other sponsors.
nMWC is crazily expensive for vendors, generally sucking up half their marketing budgets, so it’s simply too expensive
for innovators. Although Telestax did not have a booth, they were supporting their partners such as Applicata.
nTropo had announcements with Globe, Huawei and China Telecom showing the broader adoption of yelecom APIs around the world.
nSolaiemes continue to lead the industry’s thinking on WebRTC, RCS, and telecom APIs and by all reports they had a busy time on Spain’s country stand.
nAfter raising $18 million, Nexmo has an all-star management team, and with a similar revenue to Twilio is one to watch through 2014 in telecom APIs.
I did miss attending MWC. I’ll likely go in 2015. But the CSP board of the GSMA has to force the GSMA to address the fundamental problems the industry faces. The misdirection has to stop. LTE
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