Devices 2.0: 'Beyond Smartphones' - Innovation Strategies
for Telcos

An extract from our new 45 page Briefing on managing the role of new device categories in new and existing fixed and mobile business models. The report includes analysis of the practicalities and challenges of creating customised devices, best / worst practice, inserting 'control points' in open products, the role of 'ODMs', and reviews leading alternative approaches. (More)

10th and 11th Telco 2.0 Executive Brainstorms

Registration is now open for our Americas (27-28 October, L.A.) and
EMEA (9-10 November, London) events

Join over 400 senior execs from across the globe taking part in our upcoming Telco 2.0 Executive Brainstorms.

Based on new analysis and ‘use cases’, and employing Telco 2.0’s unique ‘Mindshare’ interactive format , both events include detailed analysis of business model innovation at the intersection of telecoms, media and technology. Presenters include:

• Olivier Baujard, Group CTO, Deutche Telekom
• Steve McGaw, SVP Corporate Strategy, AT&T
• Albert Hitchcock, Group CIO, Vodafone
• Anthony Rose, CTO, Project Canvas
• Simon Torrance, CEO, Telco 2.0 Initiative
• Sean  Williams, MD, Retail Strategy, BT
• Andrew Bud, Chairman, Mobile Entertainment Forum
• Gerry Gouy, Senior Director, Digital Media, MTV
• Kip Meek, Chairman, Broadband Stakeholders Group
• Jennifer Byrne, Director, Business Development, Verizon Wireless
• Roberto Saracco, Director, Future Centre, Telecom Italia
• Stefan Hadinger, VP Telco 2.0, Orange Group

10th Telco 2.0 Executive Brainstorm 'Americas'
(27-28 October, Los Angeles).
Day 1: Telco 2.0 Growth Strategies,
Day 2: the 2nd Hollywood-Telco Brainstorm and Consumer 2.0 incorporating the 2nd Privacy 2.0 Summit.
Register here

11th Telco 2.0 Executive Brainstorm 'EMEA' (9-10 November, London).
Day 1: Telco 2.0 Growth Strategies
Day 2: Digital Entertainment 2.0, Consumer 2.0 and M2M & Embedded Mobile 2.0.
Register here

Best Practice Live! Highlights: Voda, Amazon and Ericsson Strategies; Telecom Italia's Augmented Reality Play.

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This week we feature:

Future 2.0: Vodafone, Amazon, and Ericsson Strategies
Ericsson's CEO's vision of how the future roles of telcos and vendors will change (more), and Telco 2.0's CEO on how business model innovation is instigated by leading telco exponents such as Vodafone and adjacent players like Amazon (more).

Augmented Reality & Apps 2.0: Telecom Italia's Augmented Reality Play
Telecom Italia on how telcos can play a central role in the important 'Internet with Things' / augmented reality business model (more), Telus on the key role of consumer identity data in 'One API vs Appstores' (more), and how to make appstores work for developers (more).

Strategies for '20 x' Data Growth: CTO Deutsche Telekom, CEO BT Wholesale
Deutsche Telekom’s CTO on strategy, new revenues, cloud services, and the WAC (more), BT Wholesale’s CEO on new models of operator wholesale consolidation driven by the ‘20 x’ data explosion (more), and Telco 2.0 on the “gold ore” model of the API value chain and operator collaborative payment services (more).

Digital Entertainment 2.0: Four New Opportunities, Telecom Italia on ‘3 Screens’
Telcos are at the centre of the digital entertainment value chain (more). We identify four new opportunities for telcos to monetise this market (more), plus Telecom Italia’s ‘two-sided’ strategy enabling telcos to deliver the ‘3 Screen’ Experience (more).

New Digital Economics: Customer Data is ‘Crude Oil’
Operators could act as ‘data custodians’ (more) in the next phase of the digital economy, although the key to enabling the wider ecosystem is achieving wins for all parties, especially the consumer (more). MIT’s overview of the latest techniques in ‘reality mining’ (more) give a glimpse of the possibilities of this future, in which customer data is the ‘crude oil’, but what should the trading and distribution infrastructure be (more)?

AT&T, Vodafone and KPN’s Cloud Strategies
While Vodafone are putting “everything they can” in the cloud, including Vodafone 360 and Unified Communications, what are AT&T doing (more), and how did KPN reduce from 150 billing systems to 5 (more)?

M2M: the ‘Horizontal Play’ - Telenor shows how
In the near term what are the latest M2M ARPUs and best growth opportunities (more)? In the longer term, M2M needs to move beyond traditional but subscale industrial opportunities to develop the ‘horizontal play’ (more), of which Telenor’s Objects is a radical new example (more).

Combating Google’s $25Bn ‘Warchest’
As part of its growth strategy  Google is looking to use its $25Bn cash pile to expand from the PC and into the mobile and the TV and to develop new services, (more). But what are the realistic threats, opportunities, and strategies for the telecoms industry (more)?

Customer Management 2.0: Using Customer Data Effectively
How 3UK and Movistar Argentina are leveraging customer data (more), and intelligent CRM campaigns at Telefonica O2 (more).

Mobile Broadband: Big Maths, Complex Myths
3.5 billion mobile broadband subscribers by 2015, 50 billion connections by 2020 - so say Ericsson (more), while Telco 2.0 debunks the myths of the broadband incentive problem and reviews how operators can manage capacity and costs (more).

Mobile Money: The Secrets of Success
Why NTT Docomo’s DCMX and Safaricom’s M-Pesa are successful when so many others have failed (more) , and Ericsson’s global payments platform strategy (more).

Telco 2.0 News Review

• Strategy & Finance: Amazon & Google pour in CAPEX, buy more data centres
• Devices: Nokia: ex-exec says fire the fashionistas for radical change
• Technology Disruption: MeeGo picked for Linux-for-Lancias standard
• Broadband Connectivity: Why don't we charge for data usage in the busy hour?
• Regulation: Tech/telco lobbying - who spends the most, and where do these people come from?
• The Sixth Bullet: Taking the hype cycle hype out of the hype cycles

More on these stories and other news here.