The world aims for 4 billion personal communication channels

Deloitte's TMT Trends: Predictions 2006 study said that among users of global communication services, two-thirds will be mobile carriers, many of them more than 2. telephone number.

Paul Lee.( Deloitte )

Also growing rapidly is the broadband connection, expected to reach 300 million subscribers globally this year. Deloitte also predicts that the Voice over Internet (VoIP) will double the number of subscribers by the end of 2006, reaching 40 million. By 2010, most businesses will deploy VoIP because this is a cheaper and more effective solution than traditional telephone network. Deloitte's research uses a double counting method: a VoIP user can be counted as 3 because he uses VoIP, ADSL and an Internet-connected phone line. Research firm said they intentionally applied this assessment because the other services were charged separately. 'We want to emphasize that when new communication solutions emerge, they are often complementary and not competitive,' said Paul Lee, Deloitte's research director and author of the report. , to speak.

Lee said that the 3rd generation (3G) network is also facing great challenges because the construction cost is expensive while not providing much more profit for suppliers. 'Some applications generate a lot of revenue per megabyte of data, such as SMS, while many other things don't bring much value, such as video content,' Lee explains. 'The telecom industry needs to focus on what is value for users and focus on generating revenue per capita rather than revenue based on services.