| March 2008 - Telco 2.0 -
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 fly; another MVNO casualty; Virgin Mobile India “not an MVNO”; Miss Bimbo; $20 a month on ringtones; Cuba Movil!; Chinese 3G; really fast stuff; 3G iPhones; another startup-without-money. Inside gossip at Motorola ; someone claims to have been the Richard... -
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 that value through products with zero marginal cost of production, and therefore a tendency towards zero as the marginal price. The thought process therefore needs to be similar: What’s the fundamental value in music… or telephony? I’m listening to Pink... -
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 speed limits for the Net; price war rages; i-mode fails in Europe; huge telcos win huge telco auction; epic Aussie brawl over WiMAX; Sprint’s new core network - platform perfection or IMS infection?; Vodafone & MTN; French FTTH; Deutsche Telekom... -
We've been presenting the concept of the 'two-sided telecoms business model' to numerous parties over the last few weeks - boards and corporate strategy teams at large telcos in Europe and N.America, internet leaders in Silicon Valley, CEOs of mobile operators in emerging markets, CTO gatherings, equity researchers in investment banks, public policy lobby groups, and officers of large trade assocations. We've found that there are certain parts of the presentation that we might call 'A-Ha' moments... -
We’re delighted to be partnering with mashup* demo. They will being bringing their usual high energy buzz to Telco 2.0 event on the 17th April . The closing date for mash-up developers to submit demo proposals is 20th March, please send an email to demo@mashupevent.com with a 100 word description should you want to be considered. There are 2 types we’re interested in: 1.) Those that support generic business processes surrounding the purchase, provisioning and payment of any good or service; 2.) Those... -
Guest post from Mobile Enterprise CEO Tony Riley: The first Mobile Advertising and Marketing Awards Conference was held in London on 12th/13th March 2008. The event continued many of the themes from the GSMA’s CMO Forum and the Telco 2.0 program. It added its own unique sound bites enhancing previous debate and also a few new insights into “what the industry is really facing.” Here are a few thoughts from the conference: At the GSMA’s CMO Forum, organised by Telco 2.0, Brian Featherstonehaugh, CEO... -
Together with our friends over at TelecomTV, we are in the process of surveying Telecom Executives about their expectations around the brave new world of communications. Over 400 people have currently completed the survey and it is still open for a short period. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey — it won’t take long. In return not only will we share the findings with you for FREE, but we will also donate $1 to, UNHCR’s charity, Ninemillion.org. Many thanks to the survey sponsor, Qualcomm... -
As described in an article in November the work of the TM Forum is becoming more and more important to the development of new telecoms business models. It’s been trying to simplify the interactions between telcos for years by standardising their OSS-BSS interfaces; if the Telco 2.0 vision comes to pass, what with all those third-party innovators, payments going upstream and downstream, and user data flowing through dozens of APIs, we’re really going to need answers to a whole world of questions around... -
When the British government inconsiderately lost in the post details of all our children , the event was rather aptly described as a “privacy Chernobyl”. Once out in the open environment, there’s no undoing the contamination that the release of such data can cause. By coincidence, we’ve been privately using a metaphor of “plutonium data” for some time to describe the most sensitive data that telcos, by their very nature, must gather and store. The paradox is that this data could hold a key to evading... -
The most popular forms of broadband whether ADSL, Cable and HSPA Wireless all suffer the same technological limitation — it is almost impossible to predict the actual speed that the consumer will enjoy. And therefore, the marketeers take over and sell the maximum theoretical speed and in some small print actually describe that only in exceptional circumstances will the maximum speed be realised. The following graph based upon a sample of 175k Plusnet customers illustrate the scale of the challenge...
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