What’s the one thing you spend the most time with every day? If you answered your smartphone, then you’re in the majority. In fact, a recent IDC study shows 79% of people have their smartphones with them 22 hours a day!
What’s the one thing you spend the most time with every day? If you answered your smartphone, then you’re in the majority. In fact, a recent IDC study shows 79% of people have their smartphones with them 22 hours a day!
Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, Telecommunication Trends, Voxox, Cost Savings, OTT
Before the introduction of smartphones, people actually used their mobiles to call other people over their service providers’ networks. However, since smartphones have penetrated the market, the number of calling minutes used has gone down. In fact, when it comes to how smartphone owners use their phones on a daily basis, the telephone is the fifth most utilized function! Ranking in the top 5 sounds great, but isn't it strange subscribers aren't actually using their phones to make phone calls?
Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, Telecommunication Trends, Voxox, VoIP, Cost Savings, OTT
You’ve heard the phrase if you can’t beat them, join them. Well, telcos are taking this literally as many are shifting their focus from battling OTT services to partnering with them. In fact, an interest in providing OTT-type services is on the rise, with 36% of mobile operators partnering with OTT providers last year.
So, just why are telcos uniting with OTT services? Because competing with the features and competitive prices of OTT apps is nearly impossible for operators, but a partnership can prove to benefit their bottom line, as well as offer a few awesome perks to the people who keep them in business -- the consumer!
Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, Telecommunication Trends, Voxox, OTT
For the first time ever, more than half of the U.S. population owns a smartphone, giving operators much to smile about. More smartphone users means more calling and data plans and potential for increased revenue, but what happens when consumers bypass their carriers' services by using OTT apps? Operators lose money.
OTT communications providers offer mobile apps that utilize an operator's infastructure and customer base to offer consumers text and phone access at a lower cost than most operators can offer. So, how can operators reclaim this lost revenue? With a partner of course! In an effort to show carriers just how beneficial an OTT partner can be, we've narrowed down the top 4 struggles operators face when their customers use OTT apps to bypass their services, and how they can overcome them by teaming with a partner.
Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, Telecommunication Trends, Voxox, VoIP, Cost Savings, OTT
OTT communications apps may sound like a super high tech term, but you probably use one of these every day. In fact, 276.8 million people used OTT apps on their smartphones in 2012, and by 2016 1.32 billion are projected to be saving money on their cell bills each month by putting these apps to work!
Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, Telecommunication Trends, Voxox, VoIP, SMS, OTT
Over the last few years, the popularity of OTT services among mobile consumers has skyrocketed. Just how big is the market you wonder? Well, the experts over at mobilesquared, a leading provider of insight and intelligence on the mobile sector, have the answer.
Mobilesquared put together this 3-year-forecast outlining how the OTT services market will grow throughout 2017. The full report is chock full of interesting info and stats! We pulled a few of our favorites to give you an overview of just how many people are saving money and staying connected with OTT services like Voxox.
Here are our favorite 10 OTT services stats....
Topics: Small Business Tips, Communication, Telecommunication Trends, OTT
Mobile consumers love OTT services, and for good reason! Mobile OTT services like messaging and calling apps offer the same functionality as those from service providers, but they are typically much cheaper (or free!) and come with some awesome features that surpass the basic calling and SMS capabilities of traditional carriers.
Topics: Communication, Telecommunication Trends, OTT
Most of our favorite sites, applications and OTT services are available on our mobiles, but they probably didn’t start out that way. Take Facebook, Twitter and Voxox for example. These three networks launched on the web and crossed over to mobile due the soaring number of mobile users demanding on-the-go services. However, many businesses today are shifting their focus onto designing and developing for mobile first to stay ahead in a world with an increasingly mobile-centric consumer experience.
Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, iPhone, Messaging, SMS, Text Communication, Android, OTT
1. What are OTT services?
OTT stands for “Over-the-Top”, referring to third-party services available on a user’s smartphone that are outside of the control of the mobile carrier.
Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, Telecommunication Trends, Voxox, Messaging, VoIP, SMS, Text Communication, OTT
There's no question that OTT apps are taking the mobile space by storm as users seek to find cheaper ways to communicate with friends and family.
Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, Telecommunication Trends, Voxox, Messaging, VoIP, SMS, OTT
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