tiered pricing

Tiering up: The carrier shift toward usage-based pricing is starting

Verizon is preparing to move to tiered pricing for mobile data in early July. There's a growing conviction among operators...

Market alert: Netflix now N.A.’s top source of downstream traffic

Netflix has been named the number one source of downstream traffic in all of North America, accounting for just under a third of all bandwidth consumed. Obviously, that...

EU telecom spending: Cost-cutting & pricing tiers on the table

The ITU has released information on the EU telecom markets that shows many of the largest countries are lagging smaller ones in their telecom infrastructure, and other reports show that there was more cost-cutting (meaning pushing back of projects) in March. Our information shows that EU telecoms...

Time to improve operations or cap services

There are more and more signs, in the mergers and acquisitions space in particular, that vendors are finally getting smart on the network and operations management problem. Operators need to raise top-line revenues, lower costs, or both. Since supporting the top line has proved elusive or...

Tiered pricing: When cost cutting and new services fall flat

Both AT&T and TWC have now picked small areas to test their tiered pricing plans and offered early looks at the pricing. Tiered pricing and usage caps are the inevitable consequence of traffic growth that explodes without revenues following suit.

Network operators have for almost...