--- title: 2017 Trends - Developing Telecoms description: Telecommunications trends and forecasts in emerging markets canonical_url: https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/189-2017-trends.html language: en-GB date: 2017-01-04T15:15:42Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/189-2017-trends.html. markdown-tokens: 2237 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/189-2017-trends.html. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. ![Paradigm shift In Indian mobile data usage](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/Places/IndiaStreet-600x450.jpg) Details Category: [2017 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/189-2017-trends.html) 26 February 2018 10662 views The Indian market witnessed a paradigm shift in data consumption, with 4G traffic capturing 82% share of total data traffic in December 2017. ![Indian online smartphone sales lead world market ](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/Features/indiastreetl.jpg) Details Category: [2017 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/189-2017-trends.html) 26 February 2018 9372 views India’s overall online smartphone shipments grew 23% annually, faster than the overall smartphone market in Calendar Year 2017. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/highResLogos/placeholder-logo_1200x900.png) Details Reports Editor Category: [2017 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/189-2017-trends.html) 21 March 2017 18665 views Download your copy of all entries in Developing Telecoms' emerging markets Telecom Trends 2017. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/Dan_Zajicek_new_600.jpg) Details Dan Zajicek Category: [2017 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/189-2017-trends.html) 02 February 2017 12838 views This year started with the publication of a very interesting report by researchers at the University of Oxford. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/roy_timor-rosso_600.jpg) Details Roy Timor-Rosso Category: [2017 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/189-2017-trends.html) 01 February 2017 24948 views Internet access is becoming more and more available in even the most rural areas. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/Sheikh-Saud-600.jpg) Details Saud Bin Nasser Al Thani Category: [2017 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/189-2017-trends.html) 31 January 2017 13906 views The digital age is a reality, and it is evolving fast. In 2014, 96% of all non-users of the Internet were in emerging markets. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/John_Wick_Syniverse_600.jpg) Details John Wick Category: [2017 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/189-2017-trends.html) 30 January 2017 16059 views In just the last couple of years, VoLTE, or Voice over Long Term Evolution, has begun to revolutionize voice service for mobile communications, and 2017 promises to be the biggest year yet for VoLTE. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/John_Naylon_600.jpg) Details John Naylon Category: [2017 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/189-2017-trends.html) 27 January 2017 11691 views During 2016 we experienced a surge in demand for higher capacity networks, fuelled by an increased uptake of cloud services, smartphone proliferation and a drive for more unified communications. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/Silvio-Kutic-600.jpg) Details Silvio Kutic Category: [2017 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/189-2017-trends.html) 26 January 2017 14093 views The mobile messaging landscape saw some big changes in 2016 and this evolution looks set to continue over the next 12 months. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/Arnd-Baranowski-CEO-Oculeus600x450.jpg) Details Arnd Baranowski Category: [2017 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/189-2017-trends.html) 25 January 2017 11191 views In recent years, competition has gradually began influencing in the telecommunications sector in many developing and emerging markets across the world. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/Nunu-Ntshingila---Head-of-Africa-Facebook-600.jpg) Details Nunu Ntshingila Category: [2017 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/189-2017-trends.html) 24 January 2017 11910 views Over the past five years, we’ve seen African telecom networks make enormous strides towards providing broadband services to more of the continent’s people. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/aji_600.jpg) Details Aji Ed Category: [2017 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/189-2017-trends.html) 23 January 2017 14541 views Despite the fact that technology is one aspect of our life that changes fast making it difficult to predict precisely how the future will look like, we certainly need to attempt to understand the direction where the technology is moving forward. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/Raanan-Tzemach--600.jpg) Details Raanan Tzemach Category: [2017 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/189-2017-trends.html) 20 January 2017 13701 views In 2017 in many developing and emerging markets, telcos and other service providers will be completing significant upgrades to their network architectures and infrastructures. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/Ian_Langley_600.jpg) Details Ian Langley Category: [2017 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/189-2017-trends.html) 19 January 2017 20362 views During 2017, the public safety industry will continue to work towards making LTE the long term answer for emergency services communication. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/Cam-Cullen-Procera-Networks-600.jpg) Details Cam Cullen Category: [2017 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/189-2017-trends.html) 18 January 2017 12839 views 2017 will be the year telecom regulators take aim, zero-rate proliferates, and IoT insecurity grabs hold. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/nikhil_jain_600.jpg) Details Nikhil Jain Category: [2017 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/189-2017-trends.html) 17 January 2017 11793 views The telecom industry is at the forefront of leading the transformation the world is witnessing. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/Revital-Libfrand-600.jpg) Details Revital Libfrand Category: [2017 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/189-2017-trends.html) 16 January 2017 26958 views Everyone is talking about the mobile revolution in emerging markets, and for a good reason. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/BICS-Daniel_Kurgan_600.jpg) Details Daniel Kurgan Category: [2017 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/189-2017-trends.html) 13 January 2017 12733 views 2016 proved to be a remarkable year for the telecoms industry. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/Steve_Polsky_600.jpg) Details Steve Polsky Category: [2017 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/189-2017-trends.html) 12 January 2017 11367 views In the past couple of years, three important factors have come together for FinTech: the rise of cloud computing, the ubiquity of smartphones and the ability to collect and analyse big data. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/Jennifer-kyriakakos-600.jpg) Details Jennifer Kyriakakis Category: [2017 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/189-2017-trends.html) 11 January 2017 13846 views Telcos have been very cautious to date about putting the crown jewels of their business in the cloud, but in 2017, they will finally embrace cloud software to boost their operational agility. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/inderpal_singh_mumick_600.jpg) Details Inderpal Singh Mumick Category: [2017 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/189-2017-trends.html) 10 January 2017 13972 views Over the past five years, Africa has seen a sharp rise in the number of mobile phone users, accounting for 46% of the total population, making it the second largest mobile market in the world. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/leigh-smith-600.jpg) Details Leigh Smith Category: [2017 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/189-2017-trends.html) 09 January 2017 17758 views Connecting the unconnected continues to be a fashionable industry term, with Facebook and Google in particular grabbing media headlines last year – and no doubt throughout 2017 - for their efforts. ![](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/People/Martin-Morgan-Openet_600.jpg) Details Martin Morgan Category: [2017 Trends](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-trends-forecasts/189-2017-trends.html) 06 January 2017 11977 views It used to be that writing a predictions piece was something of a retread of the previous year, with a few more advances.