Free Mobile: A Prototype for Disruption?

Free.fr's entry to the French mobile market has achieved extraordinarily rapid market share gains and resulted in comprehensive disruption. An analysis of its technology, tactics, and business model, and a high-level assessment of the applicability of its approach to other markets. (More)

Driving Transformation: Key Strategic Themes and 2013 Agenda

The goal of our New Digital Economics event series is to help business leaders strategists and decision makers find and master new ways of doing business in the digital world. Our agenda for the next 12 months is:

1. Digital Economy: key disruptive trends and transformational strategies (e.g. Telco 2.0), changing mobile consumer behaviour, and infrastructure (e.g. LTE, Cloud, SDN etc.)

2. Digital Commerce: mastering the radical changes ahead in digital and mobile advertising, shopping, loyalty, and money.

3. Digital Entertainment:strategies for mobile and online that harness new delivery capabilities and multi-screens to create compelling experiences.

4. Digital Things: creating sustainable value in M2M and the 'Internet of Things'.

5. Big Data: how analytics, personal and machine data can legitimately create operational advantage and tradable value.

We'll be addressing this agenda at Executive Brainstorms in Silicon Valley (19-20 Mar), London (5-6 June), Dubai (12-13 Nov), and Singapore (3-4 Dec), driven by our research, and supported by our partnership programmes.

With only 4 weeks to go until the New Digital Economics Executive Brainstorm & Innovation Forum series returns to Silicon Valley on March 19 -20 2013, take a look at the exciting list of speakers & participants joining us to discuss ‘'Disruptive Business Models and New Growth Opportunities in Mobile Commerce, Content, Cloud and Communications'.

Brad Duea SVP Product Management T-Mobile		Yobie Benjamin CTO CITI Group		Bill Gajda Global Head of Mobile Product Visa		Dirk Rossberg CTO BMW

Plus: VP Digital Product Development, AT&T; Partner, BAIN; Global Head of Social Networks, Bloomberg; CTO, BMW; VP Corporate Strategy, CenturyLink; CTO, CITI Group; SVP Mobile, COX Digital; EVP Strategy & Emerging Businesses, Discovery Communications; VP, Disney; VP Innovation & New Ventures, eBay; Senior Business Director, GAP Senior Strategy Consultant, Google; Chief Innovation Officer, Group M; Partner Architect, Microsoft; CEO ID3, MIT Media Lab; VP e-Health Americas, Orange; SVP Business Strategy, Qualcomm; VP Corporate Business Development, SK Telecom Americas; President of Strategic Planning & Corporate Initiative, Sprint; EVP of Strategy, Starz Entertainment Group; VP Corporate Strategy & Analysis, T-Mobile; SVP Product Management, T-Mobile USA; Senior Director, Emerging Technologies, Turner Broadcasting; Senior Director, Strategy & Corporate, US Cellular Corp; VP- IT, Verizon; Head of Strategy, Verizon; Global Head, Mobile Product, VISA; VP Global Services, Vodafone Americas; Associate Director, World Economic Forum;

Incorporating 4 co-located events:
Digital Economy I Digital Commerce I Digital Entertainment I Digital Things

Get set for disruption in EMEA! We are excited to be returning to London for our 2013 New Digital Economics EMEA Executive Brainstorm & Innovation Forum. Building on the success of last year’s we will be welcoming participants to a brand new location at the Wyndham Grand Hotel in exclusive Chelsea Harbour, London.

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GSMA Mobile World Congress 2013: Cloud 2.0 Lunch & Discounted Passes

At next week's 2013 GSMA Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, we're running a Cloud 2.0 CxO Lunch (click here to find out more) and are also offering an exclusive Congress discount available to Telco 2.0 readers - click here to apply for a discounted pass.

Finance: Optimising the Telco 2.0 revenue and cost model

Structuring finances is key for the success of innovations in general and Telco 2.0 projects in particular. In this detailed extract from our new strategy report 'A Practical Guide to Implementing Telco 2.0', we describe the best ways to approach the management of revenues and costs of new business models, and how to get the CFO and finance department onside with the new approaches required. (More)

Making More Money in M2M: The M2M Service Company

Machine-To-Machine (M2M) has many potential applications with big benefits to end-customers, but how do suppliers including telcos make enough money to make it worth investing in? Here's a preview of a new M2M business model we're working on, the 'M2M Services Company', based on an approach successfully used by energy and IT companies to share end-customer productivity gains. This preview includes an example use-case. (More)

Sprint-Softbank: how it will disrupt the US market

The Japanese and French markets have both been disrupted through the entry of low-cost competitors offering substantial price reductions. We think that Softbank's acquisition of Sprint is a signal that the same is to soon come in the US given Softbank's experience as a successful disruptor in Japan. (More)

NEW REPORT: A Practical Guide to Implementing Telco 2.0

How can communications services providers (CSPs) transform their businesses from Telco 1.0 (infrastructure-led stasis) to Telco 2.0 (sustainable innovation-led growth)? An essential, step-by-step guide to the implementation of new Telco 2.0 business models, providing telecoms executives and their partner companies with a systematic approach to capitalise on new opportunities and neutralise potential threats. The report outlines robust frameworks and methodologies for selecting the right Telco 2.0 strategy for each organization, identifying and implementing the key opportunities, and avoiding expensive and time-consuming mistakes. (More)

NEW REPORT: Cloud 2.0: Telco Strategies in the Cloud

Telco 2.0 presents a new strategy report examining the evolution of cloud services; the current opportunities for vendors and Telcos in the Cloud market, plus a penetrating analysis on the positioning Telcos need to adapt in order to take advantage of the potential $200Bn global Cloud services market. This report offers over 140 pages of insightful commentary from those who've been working at the cutting edge, and includes an introduction to the sector's key technologies and emerging trends, as well as detailed recommendations for Telcos and vendors. (More)

European Mobile: The Future's not Bright, it's Brutal (€20Bn down by 2016)

Our new analysis shows that the mobile industry's combined revenues from voice, messaging and data services in the EU5 economies (UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy) will drop by nearly €20Bn, or 4% per year, in the next five years, and by €30Bn by 2020. How, why, and what can be done? (More)