{"id":965663,"date":"2025-10-03T08:40:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=965663"},"modified":"2025-10-03T08:46:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:16:21","slug":"cloud-powered-feature-phones-could-unlock-40-revenue-growth-for-indian-telcos-cloudmosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/03\/cloud-powered-feature-phones-could-unlock-40-revenue-growth-for-indian-telcos-cloudmosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud-powered feature phones could unlock 40% revenue growth for Indian telcos: CloudMosa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s 350 million feature phone users could become a major new revenue source for telecom operators as cloud-powered 4G devices can boost average revenue per user (ARPU) by up to 40% while reducing churn rates up to 30%, according to Shioupyn Shen, CEO of CloudMosa. <\/p>\n<p>The California-based company now counts India as its biggest market, with 80% of its global user base after 500% growth in Q4 2024. Indian telcos are rushing to move customers off aging 2G networks, but device costs remain a major hurdle for Indian feature phone users. &#8220;India still has around 350 million feature phone users, most of them on 2G,&#8221; Shen told ET. &#8220;While many aspire to upgrade, affordability holds them back.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s 350 million feature phone users could become a major new revenue source for telecom operators as cloud-powered 4G devices can boost average revenue per user (ARPU) by up to 40% while reducing churn rates up to 30%, according to Shioupyn Shen, CEO of CloudMosa. The California-based company now counts India as its biggest market, with 80% of its global user base after 500% growth in Q4 2024. Indian telcos are rushing to move customers off aging 2G networks, but device costs remain a major hurdle for Indian feature phone users. &#8220;India still has around 350 million feature phone users, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}