|
Welcome to the latest edition of Update, fortnightly analysis from the Telco 2.0™ Initiative:
Devices 2.0: Computing Power Moving Rapidly to the 'Edge'
More open devices, services, and networks, and smartphones outside carrier control, mean computing power is migrating away from the network core into users' hands. What are the implications for service providers? (More)
QQ China: Bigger and Better than Facebook
QQ.com is a shining example of the principles of the new Telco 2.0 'Customer Participation Framework'. It's no surprise that it's a commercial success that makes Facebook look puny (More)
iFlood: Better Mobile Interfaces Force Layer Zero Openness
New analysis of iPhone usage demonstrates that even superficial changes to user interfaces can dramatically increase traffic ...and cost. (More)
Is Online Video commercially viable? New Market Study
A major new Telco 2.0 market study is out: how can the industry cope with the online video boom? (More)
|
The 6th Telco 2.0™ Executive Brainstorm (the leading industry strategy event) is delighted to welcome Marc Davis, Chief Scientist, Yahoo! Connected Life, who along with Richard Titus, the BBC's Controller of Future Media, and Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, will be representing 'upstream' customer markets in our debates. Due to demand places are running out fast now. NB: New 'distance participation' packages available if you can't travel (More) |
|
Open Mobile Summit, 10-11 June, London: Telco 2.0 CEO To Speak
Telco 2.0 will be stimulating the Open Mobile Summit, a gathering of innovators from Google, LiMo, Openmoko and many more. Coming? (More) |
|
The 'Digital Generation': Young Today, Grey Tomorrow
The 'digital kids' of today are laying down new practices that will last them a lifetime. How we serve them needs a radical re-think if we are to stay relevant. A new report shows how... (More)
 New Telco 2.0 Research
Free Trial Subscription to the Telco 2.0™ Executive Briefing Service, including Briefing worth £1,450
For a FREE trial subscription to the Telco 2.0™ Executive Briefing Service including access to a complimentary personal copy of 'Introducing Two-Sided Markets: A Template For Future Growth In Telecoms?', worth £1,450, please click here.
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) |
Yahoo!'s 'Social media guru' to stimulate 6th Telco 2.0 Exec Brainstorm, Nice, 6-7 May
Telco 2.0 welcomes Yahoo! Connected Life chief scientist Marc Davis to this spring's Telco 2.0 event. (More)
Hot Telco 2.0 News This Fortnight
Sony Ericsson warns on profits, top exec quits - we reveal the Sharapova factor; new SE gadget advertised as 'comes with BBC iPlayer'; Moto shuts down video store; high speeds with unfeasible numbers of copper lines; Blockbuster's CPE video distribution play; Nokia cans $5bn worth of outsourcing contracts; CAPEX down 20%; horror numbers at China Telecom; rather good ones at Hutch; Skype, the world's no.1 in international voice; Ovi Store presos; UK spectrum chess - T-Mobile caves on 2.6GHz, Orange offers 900MHz universal notbroadband; first Samsung WiMAX gadget; at last, a new CDMA 3G network; Vodafone & O2 share airconditioning; Arqiva to supply cell sites to MBNL; FTel/Vivendi row continues; Telecom Plus - that's not quite what we meant by multiutility; Dell is an MVNO; CPW wants Tiscali; i-Plate pushed; Piratbyran's VPN; CDNs are the solution; Akamai's State of the Internet conclusions; US shamed on Internet routing clue; no more 'sell it to Google' business model; Chinese secret police hackers!!! (More) |
