News tagged: WeChat

06 March, 2019

Sprint smart messaging brings Artificial Intelligence-powered texting service to business

Sprint announced the launch of Sprint Smart Messaging, a solution to help businesses communicate with their customers through an Artificial Intelligence (AI) text messaging system. (more…)

21 January, 2019

China Unicom and ZTE claim world’s first completed 5G call with prototype smartphone

ZTE Corporation, an international provider of telecoms, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the mobile internet, reports that the Guangdong branch of China Unicom and ZTE have made the world’s first 5G call by means of ZTE’s 5G prototype smartphone in Shenzhen 5G field trial. (more…)

23 February, 2018

The IoT is transforming the telecommunications industry, creating exciting new revenue opportunities for telcos that innovate

We are witnessing a significant and inevitable shift in digital payments to mobile commerce. Consumers are now spending more time and money on their mobile devices than on their desktops and in stores, says Andy McDonald, vice president, merchant retail EMEA at ACI Worldwide. (more…)

10 January, 2018

Apple & Google to bring social payments to the masses, driving mobile P2P users to reach 2.5bn this year

A new study from Juniper Research has found that the global number of registered mobile domestic money transfer users is expected to reach 2.5 billion this year, up from an estimated 1.7 billion in 2016. (more…)

18 December, 2017

2018 means innovating communications for a ‘connected world’, says one operator

Shifts and fluctuations occur in every sector, with political, economic, and social factors all guiding peaks and troughs, positive and negative. According to the CEO of BICS, Daniel Kurgan, the telecoms industry throughout 2017 has been testament to this. (more…)

09 August, 2017

Wireless VR will strain data networks, creating an extra 21,000Pb of traffic by 2021, says Juniper

A new report from Juniper Research on Virtual Reality (VR) forecasts that wireless VR headsets (smartphone-based and standalone) data consumption will grow by over 650% over the next 4 years, from nearly 2,800PB (Petabytes) in 2017 to over 21,000PB in 2021. (more…)

28 June, 2017

Chinese players pursue $3.4trn international digital payments opportunity

A new study from Juniper Research highlights the increasing dominance of Chinese companies in digital payments, with players such as Alibaba, Tencent and UnionPay seeking to bolster their revenues through international expansion. (more…)

09 March, 2017

Analysts say digital engagement is the key for CSPs to achieve customer-centric digital transformation

Service providers are struggling to become Digital Service Providers (DSPs) and can benefit from the experiences of other providers by adapting approaches to suit their own market situations. So say the consultants at Strategy Analytics in a new report. (more…)

07 March, 2017

Mobile VoLTE users will surge to 3 billion by 2021, as usage surpasses OTT apps

A new report from Juniper Research has revealed that the number of VoLTE (Voice over LTE) subscribers will rise from 488 million in 2016 to 3 billion in 2021, as operators reap the benefits from widespread 4G infrastructure roll-outs. (more…)

31 January, 2017

Mobile wallet spend to rise by more than 30% this year, reaching US$1.35trn says Juniper Research

Global spend via mobile wallets is expected to rise by nearly 32% this year to US$1.35 trillion. That is according to a new study from Juniper Research. (more…)