{"id":10531,"date":"2013-07-18T18:47:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T23:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10531"},"modified":"2013-07-18T18:47:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T23:47:31","slug":"mobile-voip-no-profits-big-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10531","title":{"rendered":"Mobile VoIP: No Profits, Big Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But in joining the OTT VoIP crowd, mobile operators are quickly discovering that being popular doesn&#8217;t make mobile VoIP profitable &#8212; far from it. Infonetics&#8217; estimation of the <strong>revenue per mobile VoIP subscriber is a mere US$7.13 annually<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For the OTT VoIP crowd, that reality means looking for other ways to make money &#8212; possibly through ad insertions or by providing the voice segment of a mashup that pulls in other third-party apps for which people will pay, such as presence or gaming, or by charging extra for video-conference or multi-party video.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightreading.com\/smartphones-handsets\/mobile-voip-no-profits-big-problems\/240158423\">Light Reading &#8211; Mobile VoIP: No Profits, Big Problems<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But in joining the OTT VoIP crowd, mobile operators are quickly discovering that being popular doesn&#8217;t make mobile VoIP profitable &#8212; far from it. Infonetics&#8217; estimation of the revenue per mobile VoIP subscriber is a mere US$7.13 annually. For the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10531\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[546,103,880],"class_list":["post-10531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voip","tag-lte","tag-market-analysis","tag-mobile-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}