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Call to Action
(This post is an excerpt from an article I wrote that appeared in this month’s Pipeline, check out the full version here.)
As the new digital media commerce and service applications chains emerge, there is an explosion of isolated solutions. There...
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All Change - New Initiatives from the Forum
For years now I've been preaching that the way to profit growth for service providers was to concentrate on the ‘golden triangle' of driving up new revenues from new services; driving up customer care levels to retain business and focussing on driving...
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BBC iPlayer Bandwidth Wars
It’s August; not much going on in the
telcosphere. But the summer calm was shattered this week by some news —
and, despite what you’d read elsewhere, it wasn’t the Ericsson/STMicro
merger. We documented, with a little help from Plusnet and their...
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A “Billion Dollar Opportunity”
There is a strong demand by consumers for more direct assistance and automation in managing the devices they buy and use. The time and expertise required to manage the increasing number and complexity of devices (affordable due to ever lower prices)...
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Ring! Ring! Hot News, 18th August 2008
In Today’s Issue:
3G iPhones don’t work; developers think Google is being evil; Sun
open-sources more stuff; China Unicom inflates the Chinese 3G bubble;
UK MNOs not so good at ISPing; public doesn’t want Be CCTV after...
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Telco 2.0 Event, 4-5 Nov - Speaker Update
The next Telco 2.0 event (4-5 November, London) is looking extremely strong. A big thank you to the sponsors and partners, and to the senior industry speakers (presenters and panellists) who are participating. The latter includes:
Werner Vogels,...
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Ring! Ring! Hot News, 11th August 2008
In Today’s Issue:
Emergency! Emergency! Paging Dr. Q!; Sprint reduces Nextel value to
zero, then hopes to sell it for nonzero price; Sprint exec’s unusual
$1m bonus; DTAG’s minor success; Moto
reacts, joins a wave...
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Ring! Ring! Hot News, 4th August 2008
In Today’s Issue: Moto splits again, makes actual money; CDMA -
the edge of darkness; Nortel loses customer, 15% off shares, gains
WiMAX obsession, 13% back on shares; most pointless network tech
announcement?; the...
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BT fibre roll-out: Do the numbers add up?
BT is at last moving on fibre. This is of interest because BT don’t own a cellular network, and their current residential copper access network is functionally separated
— a very ‘Telco 2.0’ horizontal model. Is it possible to make money on
new...
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How Billing can become a Revenue Generator
Billing
within Telcos is often seen as a necessary evil — an overhead which
frequently puts a brake on marketing visions of grand new services.
Whereas, billing within the Telco 2.0 world
is a great asset offering...
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New Telco 2.0™ Manifesto - Second Edition Preview
The
current telecoms business model is approaching its ‘end of life’.
Today, we’re previewing here on our blog an updated Telco 2.0™ Manifesto
which we hope will provide a cogent reference point for creating a
vibrant...
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Guest post: Why Ribbit is worth $105m to BT
We’ve
long believed that the real reason you build an open telco platform is
to facilitate interactions between merchants and users, not to enable a
supply chain of media or entertainment products. The telco industry...
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Case Study: Qualcomm digs itself into a (very good) hole
Qualcomm, best known for owning a lot
of patents on cellular radio tech, has an interesting new product out —
and it involves a large yellow backhoe loader. Not quite what you’d
expect! But a regular theme in Telco 2.0 is that the real value for...
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Ring! Ring! Hot News, 28th July 2008
In Today’s Issue: All the Vodafone that’s fit to print; just what’s in that tall glass of mobile data?; the Spanish builder menace; AT&T discovers
principled objection to mergers, porcine aviator sighted; Sprint...
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Big Cheese Interview: Tony Rallo, CTO, Televisa
Telco 2.0 is
running a series of depth interviews with senior people in the
Telco-Media-Tech sector. To start with, to support our summer research
programme on new Content Distribution business models, we caught up...
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Ring! Ring! Hot News, 14th July 2008
In Today’s Issue: Some phone or other launched; “ZZZPhone” debunked; Verizon ODI dip
stick; Launchcast “Dashboard” open to hackers, in a good way; Verizon -
dangerously interesting?; Sprint pushes push-to-talk; iPhone...
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Two-sided markets: why do they matter?
In a previous article
we provided an introduction to what we believe is the template for
future growth in telecoms: two-sided markets. Having got the basic
facts laid out, now we can take a closer look at some of the...
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Ring! Ring! Hot News, 7th July 2008
In Today’s Issue: OFCOM moves towards BT’s
line on fibre; £31,000 phone bill; GTalk for mobile, where’s the talk?;
iPhone bank run; pity about the OS security patches, though;
cross-platform widgets; Files On Ovi;...
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Symbian goes open — or does it?
The
big news in mobile this week is that Nokia has bought Symbian, the
mobile operating system provider, so that it can give it away. In the first article
on this news we looked at the deal from the view of the shareholders...
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GupShup — ad-funded mobile services done right
In our Voice & Messaging 2.0 Report we listed over 70 new services we’d come across in our travels. One that’s come to our notice since publication is SMS GupShup.
Whilst there were many ‘me too’ Internet messaging...
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