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Welcome to the latest edition of Update, fortnightly analysis from the Telco 2.0™ Initiative:
Mobile Entertainment Forum: Deepens partnership with Telco 2.0
Telco 2.0 will be helping with this year's Meffy awards, the "Oscars of the mobile world". Last chance to submit an entry: the deadline is 17 April. (More)
Open Ecosystems': Orange, Telecom Italia, T-Mobile in tune
How do we create an 'open ecosystem' that creates rather than destroys value for telcos? Converged Operators agree on the need to clarify the business model framework... (More)
Google: What is tells us about Business Model strategy
An analysis of Google shows that certain strategies come up again and again when you deal with two-sided business models. (More)
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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) |
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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) |
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IfByPhone:"Like Salesforce.com with phones"
Featured in the Telco 2.0 Voice & Messaging 2.0 report, this start-up operates a hosted platform for voice-enabled CRM and exploits open source telephony and two-sided business models in an interesting way... (More)
Case Study: What Telecoms can learn from the Shipping Industry
This case study on containerisation in shipping offers useful lessons on industry-wide business model innovation for telecoms. (More)
Online Video and TV Markets: inflexion point reached in the UK
Analysis of new OFCOM data on the UK TV market provides useful lessons for new video entrants in any country. (More)
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Free Trial Subscription to the Telco 2.0™ Executive Briefing Service, including Briefing worth £1,450
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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) |
'Real Broadband': are Anarchy or Technocracy the only options?
Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore's ambitious plans for publicly owned FTTH seem to show that only Pakistan-style anarchy or state-run technocracy can deliver 'Real Broadband'. (More)
Hot Telco 2.0 News This Fortnight
Monster outage in California; NHS IT Zombie strikes again at BT; MetroPCS' better voice service; Google and Universal = Vevo; Yahoo! runs Google software; 100% of teenagers choose Apple; iPhones are so hot right now…that the WLAN only works in a fridge; Nokia's really useful product for India; weird biz model at Zain; user experience with three Mobile Money Transfer systems; Zennstrom to buy back Skype with proceeds from Skype sale; Symbian, the "app warehouse"; 3GPP has spoken and it says "femtocell" (More) |
