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Top 10 Telecom Advancements

Posted on 30 December 2010. Tags: Advancements, Telecom

Jim Machi of the Dialogic Corporation, a leading provider of telecom technologies based on open standards, lists the Top 10 Telecom Advancements of the Past 10 Years;

Advent of VoIP. “Triple play” cable services in your home would not be possible unless there was VoIP. “Skyping” would not be possible unless there was VoIP.
Mobile networks through 2G, 2.5G and 3G. There will soon be the same number of cell phones on the planet as people.
WiFi networks transform the computer to a mobile device.
Broadband cellular. 3G+ networks transform the mobile device from just a phone to an extension of your computer.
Smartphones. The smartphone is transforming the way people think about computing.
New entrants. Google and Facebook can enter the telecom industry using the above technologies.
Fixed Mobile Convergence. Connect to your email or office applications, anywhere, anytime.
Mobile entertainment. Your phone is not just something to talk on or text with.
Location-Based Service. Location-based advertising and “family locator” applications take off.
Mobile Apps. Web APIs enable Internet applications to much more easily handle telecom functions.

Here are some additional noteworthy advancements:

Satellite Broadband. Slow speed LEO platforms now have GEO-based competition delivering mobile broadband. Inmarsat, Lightsquared and Terrestar don’t need terrestial towers (but may use them).
Cheap backhaul. Technologies like WiMAX, millimeter band, and satellite networks including GEO spotbeam platforms and O3B can connect 3G/4G towers.
White spaces and spectrum. Promising, but still unproven. The track record of Wi-Fi, however, makes a powerful case for the availability of free, unlicensed spectrum everywhere.
Phone/Tablet Apps. Is there anything more exciting than the development of inexpensive, powerful applications? They are transformative in ways we cannot foresee.
Cloud Apps. With supercomputer web services, anything seems possible.
E-Publishing. Will the subscription model “save” the magazine and newspaper industry? Many observers believe it will transform publishing profoundly in the next few years.
Globalization. Of the 6.6 billion people in the world, more than 5 billion use mobile phones. Nuff said.

You can probably think of even better examples. Many people can now make their own apps for little or no cost. Is there anything more transformative or exciting?

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