Threats to the Telco Business Model: Facebook, Apple and others

New analysis of Apple's business model and strategy, Facing up to Facebook, and clear messages from the industry that telcos should 'Act before it's too late' highlight the threat to the telco business model from adjacent players. But what can be done? (Register for this week's free virtual event here)

Broadband 2.0: New Business Models

Vodafone, Lightsquared and Yota on what the industry is building its broadband networks for, '4G', and new Telco 2.0 Mobile, Fixed and Wholesale Business Models. (Register for this week's free virtual event here)

Cloud Services 2.0: what is the telco opportunity?

What is the real opportunity for Telcos in the Cloud? Cisco, Salesforce.com, Oracle and Aepona build on our Cloud Services research to look at the opportunity, and strategies that telcos should deploy to ensure that they capture a significant share of the future profits. (Register for this week's free virtual event here)

Digital Entertainment 2.0: opportunities in Film, TV, Gaming, Advertising

Our research has shown that there are new opportunities for telcos to help the entertainment industry. LoveFilm, Tesco and the Video Convergence Forum present on: how new online players are disrupting the marketplace and how traditional retailers are responding; how IPTV, consumer behaviour data, QoS, customer service, billing, integrated comms services can help; how to exploit 3-screen capabilities; 'content anywhere' (digital locker); and how to dramatically reduce online video distribution costs. (Register for this week's free virtual event here)

Personal Data 2.0: World Economic Forum Re-Think

Following on from Telco 2.0's analysis 'Customer Data 2.0: Telcos Must Vie for a slice of the $Multi-Billion 'PIE'', key findings of the World Economic Forum's 'Re-Thinking Personal Information' white paper launched at Davos, 'Trust Networks' and the Telco market opportunity, and expert views from AT&T, Google, and Harvard. (Register for this week's free virtual event here)

Augmented Reality: is there a valuable role for telcos?

What exactly is 'AR', how does it work, who are the key players, and what do telcos need to do to take advantage of a potential 'game changing' technology development? Analysis from one of the world's leading specialists previewing a forthcoming collaborative report with Telco 2.0. (Register for this week's free virtual event here)

Enterprise 2.0: how can telcos help businesses to 'socially network'?

Can telcos create a stronger and differentiated strategic position in the enterprise market, leveraging capabilities and assets to help businesses become more effective 'social networks'? Results of new research from Telecom Italia's 'Future Centre'. (Register for this week's free virtual event here)

M2M 2.0: New Approaches Needed

Most industry analysts agree that there will be a dramatic increase in the number and nature of "connected devices" over the next 3-5 years. However, telcos need to make sure that this market opportunity evolves in a way that they can benefit from as we described in M2M 2.0: New Approaches Needed. What are the benefits and issues of vertical and horizontal approaches to M2M? How can operators add more value? Telenor and Vertical M2M present. (Register for this week's free virtual event here)

Mobile Money 2.0: Oi Paggo Case Study

Oi Paggo is one of the most successful implementations of mobile money in the world today, offering a viable telco-centric alternative to Visa and Mastercard. Find out how it works in practice and the results so far. (Register for this week's free virtual event here)

Strategy 2.0: The Roadmap to Telco 2.0

Telco 2.0's new Strategic Business Model Framework benchmarks the primary strategies needed by each to evolve and thrive in the new industry environment. Here we describe the framework and share some of the key principles to adopt to innovate in a highly disrupted market, and AT&T's strategic market view. (Register for this week's free virtual event here)

Introducing 'New Digital Economics': New Growth Opportunities

Our readers, members, and clients have asked us to facilitate deeper collaboration with other industries around new business models. So this year we've launched 'New Digital Economics', a new programme of research, supported by a series of co-located brainstorm events and developer forums run for senior strategy execs from across the communications, entertainment and technology sectors on these dates: Americas (5-6 April 2011, Palo Alto, California, EMEA (10-12 May, London) and APAC (22-23 June, Singapore).

Telco 2.0 News Review: Facebook, AT&T M2M

• Customer Data 2.0: Facebook –‘social networks to dominate commerce’…
  
• Technology Disruptions: Killer Sony gaming devices - but where’s the Ericsson?
  
• M2M & Embedded Mobile: AT&T Q4: 2m embedded devices
  
• Online Video 2.0: Is Microsoft planning something dramatic with online TV?
  
• Google: Meet the Google team
  
• Voice 2.0: Skype launches 5.0 for Mac, pulls SkIPO

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