SMS catch-22, and the path to virtualised messaging

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Alex Duncan, CEO of Openmind, looks at the choices operators have in the face of declining messaging revenue.
By the end of this year, global mobile subscriptions are set to reach 7.6 billion, including 1.6 billion LTE subscriptions – more than the number of people on the planet.
Yet with this enormous growth in global subscriptions, mobile operators are f