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Welcome to the latest edition of Update, fortnightly analysis from the Telco 2.0™ Initiative:
Mobile World Congress 2009: Fear and Optimism
At this year's MWC, there was an odd combination of shuddering menace, as the economic crisis intensified and increased the strain on all the industry's problems, and optimism around the ideas of Telco 2.0. (More)
O2 Litmus: Better than the Apple App Store?
Building a developer ecosystem is more than just "app stores", which are this week's fad, or bare network APIs. O2's new Litmus platform shows the full range of infrastructure, two-sided revenue models, and community-building that you need to succeed. With this and the GSMA's excellent OneAPI standardisation project, we could be in for a wave of creativity. (More)
Rich Communications Suite (RCS): Lacking ambition
We are concerned about the GSMA's Rich Communications Suite project, announced at MWC. It is disappointingly conservative and lacks a compelling business model. What do you think? Join the debate here (More)
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Online Video Distribution - how will the market play out?
The existing business model is challenged by new industry structures, devices, and end-user behaviours. Read an overview or buy / subscribe to our new briefing on evolving scenarios and strategies required to prosper here.
Innovation for the Digital Generation: next gen service development
The people who fill social networks today are not going back to BT Family & Friends as soon as they settle down and get a job. Instead, the communications behaviours they learn now will follow them through life. A major new Telco 2.0 strategy report explores how to serve this digital generation, the customers of the future. (More) |
BSkyB: Lessons in creating a Platform business
The secret of BSkyB's success is that it isn't just a media company - it's a sophisticated distribution platform for heavy-bandwidth content from many sources that derives revenue from several sides of the business. (More)
LiMo: The Tortoise Picks Up Momentum
Mobile linux foundation LiMo is the quiet achiever of mobile operating systems - the most open of open-source platforms has been signing up an impressive base of vendors and operators. Its unique selling point may be that it caters to the operator better than anyone else. (More)
Recommended Upcoming Events
eComm: 3-5 March, San Francisco
It's eComm time again. It attracts the World's Leading Futurists, and smartest, most forward thinking exec's that are exploring the future of communications. And there's still 20% off tickets for Telco 2.0 Readers. (More)
Telco 2.0™ World Event: 6-7 May, Acropolis Convention Centre, Nice
The 6th Telco 2.0™ Executive Brainstorm (the premium industry strategy event) will take place in Nice, South of France, on 6-7 May, co-located with the TM Forum's Management World. We're delighted to welcome back Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, as one of the stimulus presenters. Due to demand places are limited, so apply early... and take advantage of the weak pound. New 'distance participation' packages if you can't travel (More) |
IntelePeer: Reverse-Engineering Telco 2.0
We often mention telcos' key assets; but just how long will they remain unduplicated? A start-up voice network from California suggests telcos may not have long to act. (More)
Hot News this fortnight
Nokia cooperating with Qualcomm; dire forecasts for Motorola’s future; VZW taps ALU for LTE RAN RFP; here an app, there an app, everywhere an app store; the Telco API cometh; 3’s triumph with INQ; Roshan pays anti-Taliban fighters’ wages by SMS; ZTE threatens WiMAX boom. (More) |
