Mobile Broadband Economics: LTE 'Not Enough'

Innovation appears to be flourishing in mobile broadband. At the Telco 2.0 EMEA Executive Brainstorm two weeks ago we saw working applications that enable a.) users to monitor and control their network usage and services and b.) operators to support 'dynamic pricing'. Despite growing enthusiasm for LTE, delegates considered offloading traffic and network sharing strategies as at least as effective in managing costs... (more)

Telco 2.0 Strategy: New Growth Needs New Metrics

'What gets measured gets done', and Telcos need to use new metrics to uncover and develop new sources of value fast. They also need to make WAC a 'JFDI' initiative. These and other top level Telco 2.0 strategic themes from the May 2011 EMEA Telco 2.0 Executive Brainstorm. (more)

Customer Experience: Why it Matters

This is a guest post by Nokia Siemens Networks, including key statistics from a number of proprietary research studies and summarising key points from their presentation at last week's New Digital Economics Executive Brainstorm in London. (more)

LTE & Wholesale: Time to Get Aggressive?

We examine four examples of the growing trend of wholesale-oriented LTE operations, their key challenges and opportunities, and recommend that incumbent operators should be more aggressive in wholesale. (more)

Telco 2.0 'Roadmap' Report: $375Bn Growth or Brutal Retrenchment?

Over the last three years, the Telco 2.0 Initiative has identified new business model growth opportunities for telcos of $375Bn p.a. in mature markets alone. In that time, most of the major operators have started to integrate elements of Telco 2.0 thinking into their strategic plans.
 
In this groundbreaking new 284 page Strategy Report ‘The Roadmap to Telco 2.0 Business Models’, we plot the transformational path that telcos / CSPs need to follow to achieve the 'Telco 2.0' opportunities. It describes:

• six growth opportunity areas for the Telecoms industry;
• new categories of operators based on their potential to adopt the new opportunities;
• the primary strategies needed by each to evolve and thrive in the new industry environment;
• and highlights leading examples of telco business model innovation.

See here for more on the report, join us at the EMEA Executive Brainstorm where we'll be sharing some of the findings, or email contact@telco2.net or call +44 (0) 247 5003 to find out more or book a call with the report authors.

New Business Models: Half Future Telco Growth

Senior industry Brainstormers in Palo Alto agreed that half of the telco growth available in the next 3 years would come from the new business model opportunities identified in the 'Roadmap to new Telco 2.0 Business Models' report. The other half would come from improvements to the current business model. Headline findings in brief. (more)

Public Wifi: Destroying LTE/Mobile Value?

By building or acquiring Public Wifi networks for tens of $Ms, highly innovative fixed players in the UK are stealthily removing $Bns of value from 3G and 4G mobile spectrum as smartphone and other data devices become increasingly carrier agnostic. What are the lessons globally? (more)

Appstore 2.0: Amazon Vs Apple & Google

Amazon is probably the Internet's best retailer. As it launches its own AppStore, we provide a detailed analysis of its digital media business and pick out the key opportunities it offers to content owners, network service providers and manufacturers. (more)

iPad2: how Apple plans to dominate the
'post PC era'

Apple's new 'PC-killer' tablet is intended to significantly expand the Apple ecosystem, with long-term impacts on many players including telcos, giving Apple an even stronger hold on the market. What strategies should telcos adopt? (more)

Android: Google's Anti-Apple Virus?

It can be tempting to think of Android as in a two-horse race with Apple. Our analysis shows that the current and future impact of Google's highly successful mobile ecosystem play is much more complex. (more)