Sinergi dengan Layanan OTT Salah Satu Kunci Bertahannya Operator Seluler

Masih soal layanan Over The Top (OTT) dan operator seluler, kali ini konteksnya adalah bagaimana operator bertahan dengan gerusan perolehan pendapatan, terutama di sisi penggunaan telepon maupun pengiriman pesan. Par penyedia jaringan mengamini pernyataan bahwa sinergi dengan layanan OTT adalah salah satu kunci bertahannya operator seluler di jaman kompetisi ketat seperti ini.

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Mobile Carriers Must Rediscover Themselves to Survive The Onslaught of Communications Apps

Last year Viber CEO Talmon Marco took the fight to the telco companies around the world. On stage at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, he described how Viber had introduced various features to text messaging in just two years that SMS still did not have after decades. This year, WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum announced voice calling for WhatsApp at the same event. The war between telco infrastructure companies and communication services companies is becoming more intense.
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Menyikapi Polemik Penyedia Jaringan Internet dan Pelaku Layanan OTT

Polemik soal apakah seharusnya pelaku layanan Internet Over The Top (OTT) membayar sejumlah biaya kepada penyedia jaringan internet, baik layanan kabel maupun nirkabel/operator seluler, ternyata tidak cuma terjadi di Indonesia. Di Amerika Serikat, penyedia layanan streaming video Netflix telah menyetujui pembayaran khusus untuk memperoleh traffic langsung dengan penyedia jaringan Internet kabel terbesar di sana, Comcast. Di Singapura, CEO SingTel baru saja membuat geger dengan usahanya memperoleh biaya dari layanan messaging populer WhatsApp (yang baru saja diakusisi Facebook dengan nilai fantastis) dan Skype.

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Pemerintah Siapkan Regulasi Atur Hubungan Operator Seluler dan Pelaku Layanan Internet OTT

Pemerintah sedang menyiapkan regulasi untuk mengatur hubungan antara operator seluler dan pelaku layanan Internet Over The Top (OTT). Seperti dikutip dari IndoTelko, peraturan ini bakal diatur sebagai Peraturan Menteri (Komunikasi dan Informatika) dan bakal masuk masa uji publik tak lama lagi. OTT adalah sebutan untuk layanan yang berjalan melalui Internet tanpa kontrol dengan penyedia seluler, misalnya layanan VoIP ataupun layanan video streaming. Pemain besar seperti Google, Twitter dan Facebook dengan layanan mobile populernya juga dianggap bagian OTT.

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BRTI Expects to Deploy Messaging Indonesia Before End of 2013

The push to deliver an Indonesian mobile messaging solution by the Indonesian Telecommunications Regulatory Agency (BRTI) continues amid collaborations by local telcos with foreign messaging companies. Temporarily dubbed Messaging Indonesia, the effort is expected to reduce consumer reliance on foreign services. BRTI is working with three major mobile carriers to develop this service.

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Can Telcos Take on KakaoTalk and Friends?

With Telkomsel and Indosat announcing the development of their own messaging apps based on the GSMA-approved Rich Communication Services (RCS) standard, Indonesia is about to join countries like Singapore, South Korea, and Spain in rolling out an industry upgrade to the aging SMS. In the meantime, their customers are being drawn away and their revenues siphoned out by communication services companies.

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Industri Telekomunikasi Mobile Seharusnya Bisa Mengantisipasi Meningkatnya Tren Layanan OTT

Bulan Februari lalu, Badan Regulasi Telekomunikasi Indonesia (BRTI) mengumumkan rencana untuk membangun dan mengimplementasikan platform messaging mereka sendiri yang akan menggantikan teknologi SMS yang kian usang. Langkah tersebut jelas merupakan reaksi dari banyaknya aplikasi yang berfungsi menggantikan salah satu layanan utama dari telko. Telkomsel dan Indosat secara terpisah telah mengumumkan rencana mereka untuk mengembangkan aplikasi serupa.

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Mobile Carriers Could Have Anticipated The Rise of OTT Services

Back in February the Indonesian telecommunications regulatory body (BRTI) announced plans to build and deploy its own messaging app platform to replace the aging SMS. The move was clearly an attempt to counter the onslaught of applications that substitute the core mobile communications services offered by mobile network companies. Indonesian telcos, Telkomsel and Indosat, have separately announced their plans to develop such an app.

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As Indonesian Mobile Carriers Prepare Move to 4G LTE, Frequency Allocation Becomes a Murky Situation

Indonesia’s CDMA and GSM operators in the country are converging towards LTE, much like in the United States. Carriers and regulators agree that it’s an important step to take to deal with the rising demand of mobile data and to keep up with the technological progress. Unfortunately there are technical, commercial, and political barriers preventing its deployment to happen widely and rapidly.

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