Thorsten Trapp is Co-Founder and CTO of tyntec. He co-founded tyntec in 2002 together with Dr. Ralph Eric Kunz and developed the company's Mobile Messaging platform architecture. He is also responsible for tyntec's technical innovations and intellectual property.
A communications and software expert, Mr. Trapp founded his own IT services company in 1995. He then expanded his experience in the development and hosting of scalable internet server platforms to the conception and implementation of infrastructure for mobile data transport. Thorsten studied computer science and biology at the Technical University of Dortmund.
The telecom industry will be challenged in the coming year as operators learn
to adapt to the rapidly changing mobile landscape.
2012 was the year of mobile - big brands and Internet companies have just
started to realize the potential impact that mobile communications can have
on their engagement with consumers. I expect the mobile trend will continue
in 2013, with SMS being the most rapidly changing application. Competition
between operators and Internet companies will cause these two distinct worlds
to work together in different ways. With this in mind, the following are my
2013 predictions for the telco industry.
We will witness a rebirth of SMS.
In times of crisis or low network connectivity, SMS remains the go-to
communication mechanism. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, residents in
the northeastern U.S. lost power for days, making the task of voting in the... (more)
Thorsten Trapp is Co-Founder and CTO of tyntec. He co-founded tyntec in 2002 together with Dr. Ralph Eric Kunz and developed the company's Mobile Messaging platform architecture. He is also responsible for tyntec's technical innovations and intellectual property.
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