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Welcome to the latest edition of Update, fortnightly analysis from the
Telco 2.0™ Initiative:
Devices 2.0 - Still No Consistent Industry Strategy
63% of participants at the 6th Telco 2.0 Exec Brainstorm think open devices are the way to go...the question still not clear is: what should telcos seek to control? And How? (More)
Retail Services 2.0 - 'Supermarket' Strategy Not Enough
Significant additional value lies beyond just re-selling other people's content, applications and services in addition to your own.
'Enabling' needs to be combined with retailing, say Telco 2.0 brainstormers.
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Telco 2.0 at the the Open Mobile Summit next week
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Meet the leading thinkers across mobile, Internet and new media at the Open Mobile Summit, 10-11th June, Thistle
Marble Arch, London.
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See Symbian, Google and LiMo tackle the OS debate live on stage.
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Hear the 'open' operator strategies of Voda, T-Mobile, Orange, O2 and Telia Sonera.
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Plus Google, Yahoo, Nokia, Glu and Disney the future of App Stores, Monetization, Mobile Advertising and What Developers
Want
Just a few places are remaining - follow this link for more information
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Mobile Standards - Inhibiting business model innovation?
The troubles of LTE voice standardisation highlight how current standards processes are in danger of entrenching Telco 1.0 thinking. It is
important to ensure that business model innovation is not “frozen” out of future technological deployments.
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Enterprise Services 2.0 - A Broader Suite of Platform Services Needed
76% of participants at the Telco 2.0 Exec Brainstorm believe a more comprehensive set
of common horizontal capabilities, supported by new channels, will be the most effective growth strategy in this key market.
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Next Gen OSS/BSS - A Pragmatic Approach to Enabling Telco 2.0 Transactions
Here is an elegant articulation of the need for operators to exert much more intelligent real-time control over networks, subscribers and
services. (More)
Mobile Advertising - Missing the True Opportunity
Telcos' obsession with the potential of their own advertising inventory misses the point. The true value lies before and after the delivery
of an ad. Telcos' opportunity lies in optimising broader 'marketing' and CRM business processes.
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Apple on Verizon: Chance to Reinvent Laptop Connectivity
An interesting aside was made in Verizon's Q1 earnings call in May. Could we see a radical new business model from Apple and Verizon?
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Telco 2.0 Hot News This Fortnight
MTN
-Bharti back on in complex merger; Spanish regulators see 45%
FTTH
; layer-zero openness is key; Time Warner gets out of
AOL
; Vodafone offers 25MB for £5 but not 5MB for £1; not the best start for Ovi Store;
AT&T
to offer Android, Pre; Spotify for mobile; Orascom profits slide; Vimpelcom loses money, gains subscribers; Zain Iraq fined; Viettel
buys 2,000 cellsites from Huawei; decisions coming on UK universal service. (More)
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