Telco 2.0

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

Telco 2.0 — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:15:28 GMT

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...(read more)

"Social News" = "New Players Emerge"?

Telco 2.0 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:57:30 GMT

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”...(read more)

Open APIs 2.0 - Unifying Commercial Framework Needed

Telco 2.0 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:17:57 GMT

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...(read more)

Videos from Telco 2.0 event

Telco 2.0 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:11:12 GMT

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...(read more)

Subscriber Data: The smarter way to use it

Telco 2.0 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:48:50 GMT

[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...(read more)

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

Telco 2.0 — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:30:35 GMT

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...(read more)

Mobile Standards Processes: Inhibiting business model innovation?

Telco 2.0 — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:37:06 GMT

(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...(read more)

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

Telco 2.0 — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:18:54 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Telco 2.0 — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:43:32 GMT

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...(read more)

Mobile Advertising Is Really Another Comms-Enabled Business Process

Telco 2.0 — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:50:14 GMT

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...(read more)