In many emerging markets, Wi-Fi has become a key complement to mobile broadband. Some markets don't have 3G capability at all, and those that do generally don't have enough capacity to handle the large volume of customers. As a result Wi-Fi is many times the core vehicle to deliver mobile broadband, and this trend will continue in 2013...

Machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies, that allow devices to communicate with each other and with software monitoring and control systems, are expanding into myriad new applications...

2013 will be a year in which many of the emerging trends and technologies from the last few years will become more mainstream...

Emerging markets cover a vast expanse of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, with many local and regional nuances; yet they are tied together with shared market characteristics...

As 3G becomes more widespread, mobile services will continue to evolve in emerging markets...

In emerging markets mobile phone subscriptions are still growing, high end smartphones are still in high demand and cheaper locally-made smart phones continue to enter the market. This means that innovation in mobile phone use and business models will increasingly originate from the emerging markets and strongly influence trends in other markets...

The strongest trend in emerging markets will be the narrowing gap with ‘developed markets’, particularly in the mobile data market...

Capacity will continue to be a notable expense for ISPs in 2013...

Mobile Network Operators will focus on the core services of voice, SMS and data to the detriment of traditional Value Added Services...

Growth is the biggest trend we are going to see in emerging markets. MNO’s will continue to shift their burden of infrastructure management to third parties, competing head to head with co-tenants on shared towers for millions of new customers...

Mobile payments are set to continue their growth throughout 2013...

Innovative services offered via mobile in emerging markets will continue to flourish in 2013...

Among service providers in emerging markets, there is a steady demand for more bandwidth for access network infrastructure and mobile backhaul...

Unified communications will be a major trend among organisations in 2013, particularly in emerging markets...

According to World Telecom Labs (WTL) there have been a number of recurrent themes among emerging market operators across the last year...

An SMS revival is on the cards for 2013, according to Tyntec...

Spacecom operates its AMOS satellite fleet over Central & Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Among the strongest trends in these markets are the use of satellite to ensure reliable communications for a growing number of enterprise and consumer users who expect high quality service options all the time and everywhere they go...

A richer mobile experience will be a defining trend in emerging markets during 2013...

Mobile will continue to enable innovative new services in emerging markets across 2013...

Increased demand for data-hungry content will be a major trend in 2013.

Mobile congestion will become a major issue in emerging markets during 2013 as smartphones take root...

In my opinion, the three strongest trends in emerging markets in 2013 are:

• the service innovation that will deliver affordable Internet
• the data growth that will result from a growing user base, and
• the LTE networks that will deliver the data.

LTE compliant solutions will be heavily sought after to enable seamless roaming between 3G and the growing number of LTE networks...

The proliferation of LTE will be a major trend in 2013. There will be:

• faster launches of LTE
• growth in smartphone adoption

Green telecom will be the trend for 2013, along with a quest to serve the “Next Billion” mobile customers. In addition, the global data boom will force mobile operators to evalute their business models...

Fixed-mobile divergence is the top trend in 2013...

• Fixed-mobile divergence will be here to stay
• Sharing of networks
• Focus on advanced Operations Support Systems (OSS)

The key trend in 2013 will be the development of smarter mobile infrastructure. There will be...

• A new focus on antennas for base stations
• A quest to reduce signal wastage

The trend for 2013 will be True mobility in the workplace:

• A renewed focus on ‘total cost of ownership’ of mobile computers
• The emergence of Android as a valid operating system choice for mobile devices for enterprises

Mobile devices overtake desktops with...

• A shift to a device-driven and faster Internet
• Internet backup
• The ‘social' DDoS attack

Scandinavian operator Telenor has scaled back its Indian unit, stating that it intends to spend no more than INR155 billion (US$2.85 billion), with the goal of recouping this amount by the end of Q4 2013...

India continues to be one of the fastest growing major telecom markets in the world, as well as one of the largest...

The final toppling of Telkom’s stranglehold as the dominant last mile provider in South Africa was the biggest change to the IT landscape in 2012...