THE slow
decline in voice revenue that some mobile operating in the country are
experiencing may soon be over once support from Oracle begins to yield result.
Investigations
revealed that revenue from voice for most mobile operator is on the downward
trend as subscribers seems to favour the use of other media like text message
or more advancing is the use of Whtsapp, BBM and FaceBook message to
communicate.
Addressing journalist recently on the sideline of
the Oracle Day held in Lagos in a joint media conference, country manager, Oracle
Nigeria, Mr. Adebayo Sanni and vice president, Oracle Africa, Turkey &
Central Asia, Mr. Janusz Naklicki said that
big data is the next buzz in the industry for mobile operators to leach on as
they strategise for new businesses.
According to Sanni the average revenue per user for
voice in the industry today is currently going down noting that data is
becoming the key thing and that operators need to understand how to satisfy
their customers considering the volume of videos and data that goes through their
network from the subscribers.
He disclosed that Oracle is currently talking with
two of the four mobile operators to look at alternative revenue source for their
businesses particularly as the operating environment demanding additional cost
for the running of their network.
The duos who were briefing the media on how their
businesses affect the country and business disclosed that Oracle is currently
discussing with one of the state government on how to move the business of the
state into the cloud.
He stated that what Oracle will be doing for the
particular state government, which he didn’t name will be putting a lot of
information concerning the state, particularly the business aspect of it into
the cloud for storage.
He explained that both data and clouding are the two
key digital businesses that Oracle has introduced into the country and is
taking advantage of it saying that Oracle is the only company that has the
ability to totally use it to help its partners to drive innovation to improve
on productivity.
He assured that Oracle will continue to do it and
improve on it saying that for Nigeria to sustain the new GDP status that it has
attain , it needs innovation as a key to truly drive the economy.
He stressed that further that Oracle is working with
a lot of government and business leaders to be able use innovation to support
most the current challenges in the system adding that the idea is to build an
ICT culture that will ensure that most of the Nigerian youths.
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