Mobile World Congress Raised Troubling Questions for Carriers, ABI Says
The recently concluded Mobile World Congress raised some troubling questions for the wireless industry, ABI Research said Tuesday. The MWC “left many of us deeply concerned about the future health of the mobile ecosystem and the Mobile Service Provider (MSP)…
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community in particular,” wrote Stuart Carlaw, ABI chief research officer. “With some notable exceptions, MSPs look set to be relegated to a marginalized position in the next industrial revolution.” Many see the carriers as “simple pipe providers,” he said. “There is a growing chasm between what MSPs should be doing versus what they are doing and can do.” Any belief that 5G will be the “savior” for the industry and cellular “the only connectivity for IoT is fundamentally flawed,” he said. Providers also have “an unnatural fixation with killer apps and business models,” Carlaw wrote. “The mobile community continues to peddle technology rather than offer holistic solutions. Enterprises want solutions, not an alphabet soup of three letter abbreviations. MSPs are not simplifying the decision tree for potential customers, but rather complicating it and slowing down market momentum.”