Analysys Mason Podcast

Communication apps such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger offer businesses a variety of choices when it comes to B2C messaging and each platform has unique selling points. However, although these apps are cheaper for businesses to use and offer additional functionality, no communication platform offers the ubiquity of SMS.

Tom Rebbeck, Partner and head of Analysys Mason's consumer services practice and Ben Taylor, expert in consumer services, discuss the application-to-person (A2P) messaging market and the competition between SMS and third-party messaging apps.

Learn more in the associated article.

Over the past few years, there has been a rise in UK FTTP alternative networks (altnets), disrupting the fixed broadband industry and driving FTTP adoption. However, as altnets have grown in both size and number, sustainability challenges have emerged, leading to speculation that waves of consolidation are gathering pace.

Corporate strategy and transaction support expert, Alex Pericleous, delves into this changing landscape, exploring the key driving forces behind these developments and shedding light on the future prospects for the industry.

Learn more in the associated article.

SD-WAN is already a mainstream networking option, but revenue is expected to continue to rise steadily over the next 5 years. SASE will account for a growing share of the SD-WAN and cloud security market as enterprises take a modular approach to adoption. Business services experts, Catherine Hammond and Matt Small, discuss recent trends and future expectations for the SD-WAN and SASE market based on our latest global forecasts and vendor partnership tracker. 

The associated article can be accessed here.

ARPU for B2B connectivity services is falling rapidly in real terms and operators need to accelerate their efforts to grow revenue from other services.

Business services experts, Catherine Hammond and Matt Small examine recent ARPU trends based on data from our business revenue tracker and look at what is happening in the market in terms of pricing and value-added IT services that operators can offer. 

SMBs are set to spend USD179 billion on devices and peripherals in 2023 and we expect the market to fully rebound in 2024. SMB IT spending experts, Karthik Pannala and Li Lin, look ahead at the opportunities that this presents for IT vendors that prioritise the right segments of the market and position their go-to-market strategy correctly. 

Learn more in the associated article and download our most-recent IT spending forecast report.

In this podcast, satellite and space experts Chris Baugh and Lluc Palerm discuss the exciting launch of our first satellite and space research programme ‘Satellite Strategies for Telcos’.

They discuss topics including the following:

• Why telcos need to develop a satellite strategy now

• direct-to-device communication

In this podcast, Tom Rebbeck, Partner and head of Analysys Mason's Consumer Services practice, is joined by Stefano Porto Bonacci, Senior Analyst and expert in fixed–mobile convergence (FMC) to talk about FMC strategies and what operators can do to keep their propositions attractive for customers.

The associated article can be found here. For more insights on FMC, click here.

The cloud-native network will be the foundation of API-driven services and future networks. However, the adoption of cloud-native network technologies will be a long and multi-phase journey for communications service providers (CSPs).

Listen in as Caroline Chappell, Partner and head of Analysys Mason’s cloud research practice interviews Gorkem Yigit, Principal Analyst and expert in cloud-native networking about how CSPs are progressing in their journey towards adopting cloud-native automation in networks.

Click here to access our curated bank of cloud-native network automation and transformation insights.

Watch the related on-demand webinar here.

Catherine Hammond (Research Director) is joined by Matt Small (Research Analyst) as they discuss why the demand for sovereign cloud is increasing and what cloud providers and their operator partners are doing to address this. 

The associated article can be accessed here. 

Check out the following links for more insights into the sovereign cloud market:

• Operators’ approaches to sovereign cloud

In this podcast, Tom Rebbeck (Partner) and Ibraheem Kasujee (Senior Analyst) discuss eSIMs and assess the extent to which this technology has been important to the IoT market. They also discuss the emergence of iSIM technology and the GSMA’s new IoT eSIM specification, which is a step forward in realising the full potential of eSIMs in IoT.

Click on the following links for more information on this topic:

• eSIM and iSIM for IoT: case studies and analysis