March 2009 - Keith Willetts' Blog

  • New Business Models: The Next Chapter?

    Not sure I’ve seen any fireworks lighting up the sky, but it’s now a full 25 years since the first telecom deregulation. In that time just about every market in the world has gone down the path to competitive communications. So what, fundamentally, has happened in that time? Competition and regulatory pressures have transformed prices, but as the communications world discovered the laws of market elasticity, rising volumes and the phenomenal growth of mobile have meant that revenues have...
  • The Fork in the Road

    Great article this week in the Economist asking what the world's bankers (did I spell that right?) could learn from the telecom melt-down of the early 2000's. One very interesting point it made was that shareholders at the time encouraged telecom companies to go 'back-to-basics and concentrate on their core business. But as we know, and the finance industry will find out, that's not such a great idea. Those markets for us (and them) are mature, low growth business in many cases. According...

Paid Advertisement
About TM Forum
Introduction, History, Board, Management Team...
Membership
How to Join, Benefits, Member List...
Community
Community Home, Groups & Teams, Blogs...
Conferences
Event Calendar, Management World, Supported Events...
Training & Webcasts
Upcoming Training Courses, Upcoming Webinars, Podcasts, On-Demand Webcasts...
Initiatives
Cable, Enabling Cloud Services, Government and Defense...
Best Practices & Standards
Frameworx, Business Process Framework (eTOM), Information Framework (SID)...
Resources
Document Library, Case Studies, White Papers
Research & Publications
Business Benchmarking, Newsletters, Insights Research...
Copyright © 1988-2012, TeleManagement Forum. All Rights Reserved
Contact Us
Careers with TM Forum
News Room
Privacy Policy
Terms of Use
Sitemap