Executive Insight: Trapping the cash!

Mobile broadband might be driving 3 and 4G investment programmes, but despite all the excitement, voice is still the biggest money-spinner.

So says Einar Linquist, CEO of Teligent. He claims that telcos are leaving money on the table by letting thousands of billable events slip past. His company has some ideas (and some technology) which can help stem the cash by-pass problem.

Alternative Agenda: You can't beat them, so you have to join them!

Teligent CEO appears on TelecomTV on incorporating OTT services. Voice, he says, will remain the big application for mobile but telcos will have to make some radical adaptations if they're going to continue to be the major providers. To protect their subscriber bases, telcos must extend their sticky packages and incorporate OTT VoIP using WiFi. The key is to manage OTT services - particularly VoIP - in a telco way

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