Presentation by Dean Bubley of Disruptive Analysis at IIR Next Generation Service Platforms & WebRTC conference in Munich.
Covers challenges faced by telecoms / mobile operators in maintaining / increasing revenues in face of flat or declining telephony, data & SMS revenues. Focuses on new areas for voice/video "beyond the phone call" including WebRTC, Hypervoice, Telecom APIs
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Future of Voice - Next Generation Service Platforms & WebRTC Conference 2014
1. The Future of Voice Services
Beyond the Phone Call
Dean Bubley, Disruptive Analysis
IIR NextGen Service Platforms & WebRTC
Munich, June 2014
dean.bubley@disruptive-analysis.com @disruptivedean
2. About Disruptive Analysis
London-based analyst house & strategic consulting firm
Advisor to telcos, vendors, regulators & investors
Covering VoIP since 1997 & 3G/4G mVoIP since 2007
Published report on “Telco-OTT Strategies”, 2012
Full report & updates on WebRTC, Feb/Jun/Oct’13 & Mar’14
Non-Neutral Mobile Broadband Report, June 2014
Workshops on Future of Voice & TelcoOTT
Twitter @disruptivedean Blog: disruptivewireless.blogspot.com
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3. Telecoms industry in a nutshell
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Flat/falling telephony
Declining SMS
Direct/Internet competition
Substitutes & alternatives
Costly infrastructure
Regulatory impact
Data still growing
Digital content
Verticals
Telco-OTT
APIs & partnerships
Better segmentation
4. The big problem for the mobile industry…
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2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Voice telephony
VAS / digital
Internet/data access
SMS/MMS
$bn – Global Mobile
Operator Revenue
?
New/partner services?
Voice/video-based?
Verticals?
Source: Disruptive Analysis
5. Demand & elasticity for core telecom services
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Time
Demand
Unconstrained
demand
Price-constrained
demand
Behaviour changes,
alternatives emerge: peak
theoretical demand
Price-elasticity takes
time to catch up
Peak
Telephony /
Messaging
6. SMS volumes & revenues falling off a cliff
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Source; BNetzA
Growing A2P volumes isn’t going to help much
7. RCS/joyn isn’t going to rescue messaging either
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8. Net/Not neutrality won’t stop data flattening too
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Data connectivity will soon saturate in developed markets
Source: Disruptive Analysis Non-Neutral MBB Report
9. The bad news: we’re past “peak telephony”
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Total German telephony minutes fell 1.5% in 2013
Mobile minutes grew just 1% (Source: BNetzA)
More supply, flat/lower demand = Price & value erosion
10. 2 problems: competition & substitution
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Price, functionality,
integration, coolness etc –
but still a voice app
More effective ways to
perform tasks than a phone
call or voice interaction
11. Old distant voice [Tele-phone]
>100 years ago
Pretty good for the 19th century...
But apart from mobility, not
much has changed
12. The question telco execs can never answer
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Why do people make phone
calls, or use other voice
capabilities, anyway?
And can we encourage them to do it more?
13. Two charts you’ll never see…
Calls by purpose
Gossip
Meeting up
Flirting
B2C Cust Svc
B2B internal
Spam
Showing off
Work
Wasting time
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Must
have
Nice to
have
Meh. I
want
free
I'll call
back
Importance of QoS, % calls
Diagrams are illustrative, not actual data
Telecom industry doesn’t understand demand for its core product
Makes it impossible to defend vs. competition & substitution
14. For some users, Quality = “cuteness” not QoS
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15. Voice: From Telephony to “Rich Voice” & VAS
Basic standalone telephony “voice transport”
Sustained demand for basic “calls” although volume & value will fall
Success needs feature, quality, convenience etc
New forms of standalone communication eg ephemeral
Unlikely to be standards-based or interoperable
Contextual voice in apps, websites, processes
APIs, plug-ins, mashups etc
Some can use telephony as a “raw ingredient”, but not all
Voice processing, analytics etc. on top of transport
Recording, translation, sentiment, concierge, agents etc
Also non-voice audio, video, other realtime comms
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All need understanding of “purpose” and platforms
16. Standards & interoperability aren’t everything
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Standard &
interoperable
Silo or
proprietary
Transport
(calls)
Value-adds
(conferencing
, 1-800 etc)
Transport
Value-adds (Cloud,
context, analytics etc)
Much (not all) future voice value derived
from silos or proprietary implementations
17. Future 4G telephony standards & approaches
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GSM /
SS7
LTE
CSFB
VoLTE
NGN-VoIP
Wholesale
VoIP
BYOV
8 out of 290 networks
Huge complexity
Only ToLTE anyway
Business case?
Good enough
18. Hypervoice
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Voice as
two-way
audio
Voice as
information
AUDIO DATA ONLY FULL CONTEXTUAL DATA
TRANSMISSION STORAGE & PROCESSING
19. Telco-OTT voice/messaging applications
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+ also TelcoOTT content, cloud, advanced
comms, TV, developer platforms…
Orange Libon Swisscom iO NTT 050 plus Comcast Xfinity Connect
China Mobile JegoTelefonica Tuenti (WebRTC) Rogers One-Number
20. The vision: voice & video comms everywhere
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21. Service
e.g. SMS, Telephony
Product
e.g. Viber, Uberconference
Feature
e.g. In-game chat
Function
Voice/video moving from service to function
Cloud Voice
Platforms & APIs
22. WebRTC on >4bn devices by 2016
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Source: Disruptive Analysis WebRTC Strategy Report update April 2014
Lack of explicit
MS & Apple
browser support
less important
than some
believe
23. Lead WebRTC use-cases
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Customer service &
developer platforms
Consumer web apps &
enterprise UC
Live &
commercial
Verticals, CDNs, full
conferencing
Pilots / pre-
commercial
Trials &
demos
Telco IMS,
entertainment,
M2M
24. For telcos WebRTC is really a magnifier/catalyst
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Now
With WebRTC
Bigger opportunities
Worse threats
Faster speed
25. Comms ubiquity is dead. And that’s a good thing.
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Why do I want to do it?:
Management by rolling about.
What do I want to do?
“Make a video call”
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