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Walton, Nigel (2014) Chat Apps Will Disrupt Global Telecoms Sector. The Oxford Analytica Daily Brief.
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Abstract
The recent purchase of WhatsApp by Facebook for $19 billion signified a new milestone in the evolution of the mobile Internet as a technology platform. Not only is the new chat app seen as a threat to Facebook’s dominance as the leading social networking platform (hence the astronomical valuation) it is also about to have a highly disruptive impact on the telecoms sector. In just over four years WhatsApp has grown to half the size of Facebook and is projected to reach 1 billion users within the next few years. During this period WhatsApp has destroyed the $120 billion SMS (texting) market and is now planning on disrupting voice mail, the traditional revenue stream of telecoms companies.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Staff and students at the University of Worcester have access to the full-text. External users should check availability with their local library or Interlibrary Requests Service. |
| Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords: | WhatsApp, global telecoms sector, chat apps, telecommunications, technology, industry, computers |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications H Social Sciences > HF Commerce T Technology > T Technology (General) |
| Divisions: | College of Business, Psychology and Sport > Worcester Business School |
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| Depositing User: | Nigel Walton |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Apr 2014 11:08 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jun 2020 17:03 |
| URI: | https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/3050 |
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