Telecom Business Review

Rahul Darmwal ¹

Affiliations
1 Ericsson India Global Services, Pune, Maharashtra, IN

Abstract

Wearable technology is the latest buzzword doing rounds in Technology forums with humongous growth expected in next few years. Of various devices, "Smart Watches" have shown most promise. A lot of companies have already launched Smart Watches or have indicated an interest to explore this area.

In this paper, we try to understand the following: Definition of Watch and how a "Watch" has changed over years, What are the Mechanism to keep time. How does a watch function. What is a Smart Watch? Its Past and Present, What are features that Smart Watch provides. How useful are these features?, Target Segment for Smart Watch. What factors could dictate decision of consumer to buy Smart Watch?, What is the outlook for Smart watch Market? How would Traditional watches fare once Smart watches become mainstream, Authors Conclusion around Smart Watches ability to disrupt the Traditional Watch market.

Keywords

Mechanical Movement, Quartz Movement, Smart Watches, Traditional Watches, Market Analysis.

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Rahul Darmwal ¹

Affiliations
1 Ericsson, IN

Abstract

Furious customers disputing bills, issues of payments between operators for roaming services, sim clones and illegal eavesdropping, troubleshooting in multi-vendor-These are some of the most well-known issues faced by Telecom Operator. What if there was a way to overcome these issues. The potential benefits would be huge and at same time greatly improve perception of Operator in eyes of its customers. One such disruptive technology, Blockchains, which uses Distributed Ledgers and operates trustless, is being envisioned to solve such problems within Telco's.
A lot of literature is available describing how blockchain can be used to power todays Telecom use cases, however, hardly any papers describe the challenges that needs to be overcome to actually make blockchain a mainstream technology in Telecom sector. This lack of reality check was inspiration for writing this paper. In this paper, we try to understand "Blockchains", some proposed blockchain implementation for Telecom use cases and challenges that need to be addressed to enable these use cases.

Keywords

Block Chain, Telecom, Operator, Use Case, Distributed Ledger, Bitcoins, Challenges.

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