$10Bn Loyalty Market: Top Strategies and Apps for Telcos, Retailers, Online Players

The advent of smartphones and tablets is disrupting the $10Bn+ loyalty market by opening up new ways for brands and retailers to engage with their customers in a highly interactive fashion. This briefing analyses that market, why mobile is a compelling medium in it, key mobile app types, and leading edge strategies used by online players and traditional retailers. It concludes by outlining the strategies telcos need to employ to add value and exploit their assets and capabilities to play a major role in the value chain. (More)

Telco 2.0 Transformation Index: The first benchmark of future telco business models

The Telco 2.0 Transformation Index provides a fast, comprehensive, and high impact strategic reality-check and forward outlook to help telcos, their partners and investors improve returns on strategic investments and activities. It assesses current market performance and positioning, new services, transformative strategies, and future competitive and collaborative abilities of key telcos/CSPs against their potential and 'best-in-class' peers (including 'OTT' Players) in an industry facing a $400Bn 'digital hunger gap' and with core revenues declining by 20-30%. The first tranche of analysis addresses Telefonica, Vodafone, AT&T, Verizon, Axiata, SingTel, Etisalat and Ooredoo (formerly Qtel). Each company is analysed and scored in detail and direct comparisons can be made via the overall summary analysis. The approach is based on seven years of proprietary and market-leading research by the Telco 2.0 Initiative. (More)

Focused on the Middle East and North Africa - Digital Arabia 2013 focuses on new ways to drive innovation and growth in digital commerce, content and communications. New for this year we will be featuring Innovation Souq! an interactive forum, showcasing the latest cutting-edge innovations in mobile and digital technology.

Venue & Date: Jumeirah Creekside Hotel, Dubai, 11-13th November 2013.

Agenda Highlights:

Tuesday 12th November
• Digital Economy: Driving Innovation & Growth in a Hyper-Connected World
• Innovation Souq!: Enterprise Productivity
• Roundtable: Mobile Financial Services 2.0 (*Special Invitation only*)

Wednesday 13th November
• Innovation Souq!: Mobile Marketing, Commerce & Content
• Digital Entertainment: Creating a more profitable ecosystem across the MENA region
• Digital Commerce: Disruptive innovation in retailing, marketing and distribution
• Digital Things: Strategic Opportunities in M2M and the ‘Internet of Things’

For further information and to view the agenda please click here

Early bird offers are available on applications made before 2nd August 2013 - simply mention 'early booking 2013' when applying to participate.

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The growth of the internet giants and their associated success with appstores has resulted in many telcos being marginalised from the provision of digital services to customers. STL Partners/Telco2.0 is conducting research to explore if recent market and technology developments could result in a shift from the native (Android, Apple) 'app economy' to a new mobile web experience. (More)

Cloud 2.0: NEW Rapid Impact Programmes to Fast-track your Cloud Strategy

With the right strategy, telcos can take a larger share of the $40bn + and growing Cloud market. We now offer tailored programmes for clients looking to save time and improve market performance by fast-tracking their Cloud Strategy, helping to size market potential, benchmarking against external best practice, securing internal alignment of objectives and plans, prioritising key activities, and selecting candidate vendor partners as required. The programmes are based on our proprietary Cloud 2.0 Research and run by our experienced senior analysts who have hands-on experience of delivering cloud services in the real world. (More)

Software Defined Networking (SDN): A Potential 'Game-Changer'

An overview of Software Defined Networking (SDN), how it differs from traditional networking technologies, its potential benefits, use cases, strategic scenarios and key action plans for telcos, and why it is so important for both the telco and vendor communities to adopt and exploit SDN capabilities now. (More)

Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) vs. Software Defined Networking (SDN)

This free extract from our recent Executive Briefing on Software Defined Networking (SDN): A Potential 'Game Changer', describes 'Network Functions Virtualisation' (NFV), the problems it solves, and how it relates to SDN. (More)

Customer Experience: Is it Time for Mobile CDNs (Content Delivery Networks)?

Changing consumer behaviours and the transition to 4G are likely to bring about a fresh surge of video traffic on many networks. Fortunately, mobile content delivery networks (CDNs), which should deliver both better customer experience and better costs, are now potentially an option for carriers using a combination of technical advances and new strategic approaches to network design. This briefing examines why, how, and what operators should do, and includes lessons from Akamai, Level 3, Amazon, and Google. (More)

The Internet of Things: What's Hot in The IoT?

'The Internet of Things' (IoT) is one of the big ideas of the moment. But what are the areas in which value is being created now, and what is technological hype? (More)

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)

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)