Advanced Messaging Hubs
By Tony Holcombe, President and CEO, Syniverse
Industry forecasts have mobile messaging traffic, including SMS, MMS and mobile instant messaging (MIM), expanding at nearly 20 per cent a year by 2012. The expectation is that the 2.5 trillion messages sent globally in 2008 will increase to an incredible 4.8 trillion messages by 2012. With mobile devices in the hands of almost 3.7 billion subscribers around the world, mobile messaging clearly has the potential to be the de-facto form of instant, personalized communications. More>
Profitably Managing the Messaging Explosion
By Tony Holcombe, President and CEO, Syniverse
Growth in mobile messaging is one of the hottest topics in the wireless industry today. In 2008 alone, nearly 2.5 trillion messages – primarily SMS and MMS – made their way around the world. And according to industry analysts, this number will likely increase 20 percent a year by 2012. This means that in just four short years the number of mobile messages moving across networks will effectively double to an astounding 4.8 trillion. More>
Hubbing: The Evolution of Successful Roaming Clearing and Settlement
By Tony Holcombe, President and CEO, Syniverse
The costly and time-consuming practice of operators negotiating bilateral roaming agreements with each other is evolving in a new direction. Tony Holcombe, President and CEO of Syniverse Technologies, explains how global hubbing is poised to open up a wealth of new revenue opportunities, simplify the complexities of the clearing and settlement process, and make launching new services even easier. More>
Data Clearing, Financial Clearing Houses Lower Risk, Assure Revenue for Operators
By Eugene Bergen Henegouwen, Executive Vice President, Syniverse, EMEA
GSM operators today are faced with an increasingly daunting task: how to manage the financial and data clearing settlement of multiple roaming agreements. In addition to having to deal with an estimated 200 to 300 roaming partners each, they must all comply with complicated industry-wide standards and regulations for invoicing, data record format, settlement and more. More>