The following is excerpted from the question-and-answer section of the transcript.
(Questions from industry analysts are provided in full, but answers are omitted - download the transcript to see the full question-and-answer session)
Question: Frank Maa° - DNB Markets, Research Division - Analyst
: So while I appreciate many of the goals you're trying to achieve with this acquisition of Vonage, including the 1 million developer community that
you get access to and the long-term strategic idea.
Could you please explain why you think, it's necessary to own the company rather than partner with companies in the CPaaS space, such as this
one or others, and work with developer community that way?
Question: Frank Maa° - DNB Markets, Research Division - Analyst
: On a slightly different topic, but I mean the software revenues of the company, how much -- what was the software share of revenues, compared
to, for instance, messaging being pushed through, I mean, SMS termination business and so on?
Question: Frank Maa° - DNB Markets, Research Division - Analyst
: Yes. Just a follow-up on the API part of the business, and what you're trying to achieve with programmability, basically, of the stack here because
today, I mean, the telco stack and the SMS and voice and video and so on, the Vonage and the competitors have basically, been pretty high above
that stack. And now we're trying to, in the future, go deeper into the network with these network APIs.
The question is, most operators have more than just Ericsson equipment in the telco stack, a lot of other vendors as well. And to get that
programmability and API side, the infrastructure of others. Are you also -- what thoughts do you have on that will...?
|
