Telco 2.0

Ring! Ring! Hot News, 8th June, 2009

2009-06-08T12:15:28Z

In Today’s Issue : Verizon launches cloud computing offering; API s coming up this year; the problems of being cloudy; beware potential plutonium privacy problems; hackers claim to steal entire T-Mobile USA billing database; SingTel on Bharti/MTN: “In for a billion!”; Apple App Store to start subscriptions, volume pricing; Google’s cash for developers scheme; MID s fail; WhyMAX femtocell; satellite TV for your car; problems of network-based DVR s; Carphone Warehouse demerger...(read more)

"Social News" = "New Players Emerge"?

2009-06-04T17:57:30Z

Here’s another attempt to map the future of media: How Our News Sources Changed in the Last 200 Years . Predictions, as they say, are especially difficult about the future, and it’s certainly a brave one to forecast a future dominated by “social” and “targeted” news - two forms of media that don’t exist yet and that we don’t really know how to describe or define. But one of the interesting things here is how closely this maps to the progression through...(read more)

Open APIs 2.0 - Unifying Commercial Framework Needed

2009-06-04T14:17:57Z

Below is a summary analysis of the Open API s 2.0 session at the May 2009 Telco 2.0 Executive Brainstorm which, for the first time gathered together were the leaders of the major telco API programmes - GSMA, TM Forum, MEF Smart Pipes, OMTP BONDI, Orange Partners, Alcatel-Lucent - and some of their potential users (BBC, Yahoo etc). The premise we explored was this: Platform-based 2-sided business models need API s to enable upstream customers to use telco assets and processes. There are a huge variety...(read more)

Videos from Telco 2.0 event

2009-06-04T08:11:12Z

The good people from TelecomTV have now published the videos from this spring’s Telco 2.0 Executive Brainstorm . Below is the opening interview with Chairman of TM Forum and CEO of Telco 2.0 Initiative: var so = new SWFObject('http://www.telecomtv.com/embed/player.swf','mpl','650','423','9'); so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always'); so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true'); so.addParam('wmode','transparent'...(read more)

Subscriber Data: The smarter way to use it

2009-06-03T11:48:50Z

[Ed - This is a guest article by Telco 2.0 ally Paul Magelli Head of Subscriber Data Management at Nokia Siemens Networks on customer data, a topic we’ve been investigating since 2006 , notably here, on the difference between potatoes and plutonium , on Move Networks , OpenID , Skydeck and Yahoo! .] By 2015, when there will be something like 5 billion people connected around the world, where applications will predominate in the internet and there is broadband everywhere, a multitude of business...(read more)

Ring! Ring! Hot News, 1st June, 2009

2009-06-01T12:30:35Z

In Today’s Issue: : MTN -Bharti back on in complex merger; Spanish regulators see 45% FTTH ; layer-zero openness is key; fibre diet very good for Xfone; NBN numbers; Aussies row back on filtering; KCOM - managed services as a managed service; Time Warner gets out of AOL ; Nortel gets out of LG-Nortel; Vodafone offers 25MB for £5 but not 5MB for £1; not the best start for Ovi Store; data pressure on at AT&T; AT&T to offer Android, Pre; Spotify for mobile; virtualisation for mobile; Facebook...(read more)

Mobile Standards Processes: Inhibiting business model innovation?

2009-05-29T11:37:06Z

(This is a modified version of an article first published by Dean Bubley, an Associate of the Telco 2.0 Initiative, on his Disruptive Wireless blog ) An important area for Telco 2.0 strategists to consider is the way that technical standards are created in the communications industry, and the direct and indirect impact this has on future business models. Either by deliberate intent by “traditionalists”, or accidental inertia, standards often tend to entrench Telco 1.0 thinking and processes...(read more)

Enterprise Services 2.0 - Output from Telco 2.0 exec brainstorm, May 09

2009-05-28T19:18:54Z

Below is a summary analysis of the Enterprise Services 2.0 session at the May 2009 Telco 2.0 Executive Brainstorm . It builds on some of the issues we described before the event here . The premise we explored was this: Enterprises are rapidly extending their use of the internet and mobile to promote, sell, deliver and support their products and services and manage their customer and supplier relationships. However, companies involved in the ‘digital economy’ still face substantial challenges...(read more)

Retail Services 2.0 - Output from Telco 2.0 exec brainstorm, May 09

2009-05-28T17:43:32Z

Below is a summary analysis of the Retail Services 2.0 session at the May 2009 Telco 2.0 Executive Brainstorm . It builds on some of the issues about selling to the ‘digital generation’ that we described before the event here . The session involved short stimulus presentations from leading figures in the industry , group brainstorming using our ‘Mindshare’ interactive technology, a panel discussion, and a vote on the best industry strategy for moving forward. Below is the...(read more)

Mobile Advertising Is Really Another Comms-Enabled Business Process

2009-05-28T11:50:14Z

We should all now be aware that the global advertising market adds up to about 2 per cent of the telecoms industry’s revenues. But advertising is a sub-set of a bigger sector - ’marketing services and business intelligence’ -which is far more valuable and far more pertinent for telcos to support. As Rory Sutherland, vice-chairman of Ogilvy, said at Telco 2.0 , there are probably more good ideas in mobile marketing than there is money to pay for them. Limits to advertising, and the...(read more)