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New IPTV Survey
Telecom TV’s new survey explores the future of IPTV. It’s an interesting survey and is quick to do. The link is here.
NB: For each survey you participate in TelecomTV will share the results with you for FREE and donate $1.00 to UNHCR’s charity, Ninemillion.org....
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Bonanza or bust for termination fees?
One
occasionally controversial, but always lucrative, part of the telecoms
business is the collection of termination fees. For example, the UK
regulator Ofcom estimates that approx. 15% of UK mobile industry
revenue is...
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Telco 2.0 Strategy: Say It With Charts
A TV show called Who Wants to Be A Millionaire
is apparently now the most internationally popular television franchise
of all time. Its popularity comes partly from the tension created by
the huge amounts of money...
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Telco 2.0 FAQs: A Starting Point for Change
Below are our responses to 56 tough questions about the new $250bn+ telecoms two-sided ‘platform’ opportunity generated anonymously in real time by the 200 participants at the Telco 2.0 Executive Brainstorm
last month. The questions were responding to...
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Ring! Ring! Hot News!
In Today’s Issue: DT/Sprint murder’n’acquisition poses world’s biggest OSS BSS MESS; shareholders scared; political egos swell; warming up by buying OTE; and a side order of Nokia Ovi content, please; Mobistar MVNO mastery;
Microhoo muffed; Yahoo+Jajah;...
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Are Pundits and Consumers on the Same Page?
Frankly I’m tired of reading about what pundits think consumers’ want when it comes to new media services, personalized content and ad supported services. Nothing against these fine folks – I know many of them and consider them friends and colleagues....
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Money, Money, Money.
Welcome to the all-new Telco 2.0 weekly update relating to financial wheeling and dealing in the TMT sector
around a specific topic each week. Our aim is not to regurgitate
earnings releases amply covered elsewhere, but...
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Ring! Ring! Hot News, 28th April 2008
Meet JIL;
that’s the Joint Innovation Lab, a project worked out between Vodafone
and China Mobile that’s meant to establish standards for mobile
widgetry. Apart from the obvious point that only telcos could come up
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BBC and its paymasters: Cutting the Gordian knot
At the Telco 2.0 event last week there was much debate about whether online video (a fast growing phenomenon) would kill the ISP business, not only fixed, but mobile too. Our analysis of the real life effect of the BBC’s...
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Ring! Ring! Hot News, 23rd April 2008
In Today’s Issue: Online
businesses crave telco capabilities (potentially…). Motorola rearranges
the deckchairs. Nokia profits up 25%, but you wouldn’t want to see what
went into that. Is Comes With Music a lossmaker? Nobody pays for the
stuff anyway....
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I Can’t Work My Remote So I Rarely Watch Television...
Yes, that is a bona fide confession of a fairly bright communications expert that has been around this industry a long time. I won’t tell you who she is….just that she is near and dear to my heart….a-hem…(next time you hear that I never watch television...
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Service Management: Thoughts on trends
Mark Francis
Vice President
AT&T
Over the past year, I have made the most significant shift in role that one can fathom, from being responsible for the overall Enterprise Architecture and Strategic Direction to owning...
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Stimulus for Telco 2.0 Brainstorm, MashUp Demos
We’ve been delighted by the effort the speakers are putting in to their ‘stimulus presentations’ for the Telco 2.0 Executive Brainstorm this week in London.
One or two have had their drafts sent back covered in red...
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Ring! Ring! Hot News, 14th April 2008
In Today’s Issue: Data surge at 3UK; price war in Sweden; Vodafone (powered by BT); what next after Big Ben?; more Phorm horrors; Carphone vs BT vs OFCOM; BT vs WiMAX; UK 2.5GHz auction coming; Qualcomm: Is a Telco; flying femtocells and Truphone; bad...
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Recipe for an Information Poor Society
Several recent articles and news reports over the past week or two made
me again ponder on the future of ‘bit pipes’. Long the fear of many
operators that they would be commoditised into a ‘mere bit pipe’; I’ve
long wondered why it would be so bad,...
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IVR search: a ‘Google’ for phone menus?
We’re putting together our Voice & Messaging 2.0 report, which includes a directory of all the interesting companies in the space we’ve come across. We’ll be presenting some of this at our event next week of course. But in the meantime, we’d like...
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Ring! Ring! Hot News, 7th April 2008
LAST CHANCE TO JOIN 200 SENIOR EXECS AT THE 4TH TELCO 2.0 EXECUTIVE BRAINSTORM NEXT WEEK (16-17 APRIL, LONDON). ALL PARTICIPANTS GET A FREE COPY OF ONE OF NEW RESEARCH REPORTS. DETAILS HERE.In Today’s Issue: 60 WAP sites - meh; Tellabs - beware big...
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PNSol: Answer to the broadband riddle?
For some unknown reason, I have this mental image of 1940s actress Hedy Lamarr, glamorous co-inventor of spread spectrum radio, doing her work in some swanky Manhattan hotel suite. A grand piano sits in the corner, and servants flutter by. Who wouldn’t...
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Ring! Ring! Hot News, 31st March 2008
In Today’s Issue: Motorola gossip: the demerger cometh; cablecos’ Comcast-Clearwire concert party; HOWTO deploy fibre in NZ?; here’s an answer from San Francisco; Symbian OS platform security is hacked; free WLAN in BA lounges; 3UK is profitable, pigs...
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Music 2.0 the Telco 2.0 way
The week that the real Music 2.0 book launches, we were having a backchannel conversation on future business models for the content industry. We think there’s a strong parallel between music and telecoms — high fixed cost businesses trying to recover...
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Ring! Ring! Hot News, 25th March 2008
In Today’s Issue: 37% of Ultra-Mobile PCs to get WiMAX; Virtual PBXs could eat your business customers; low-cost telepresence like low-cost spaceflight, i.e. not very; MSFT buys callcentreco; Don Price on managed services; topology aware P2P; variable...
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Barcelona report, and anticipating Nice and Santa Clara
It has been too long without a blog entry, I know, but my excuse is that too much was happening (and I am sticking to it!). Maybe you will find this more believable if you just read on.First off, the predicted trip to Barcelona – Nola Balas of T-Mobile...
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