Are Telefonica, AT&T, Ooredoo, SingTel, and Verizon aiming for the right goals?

Operators face difficult choices on the best way to change their business models. In this note we analyse the approaches taken by AT&T, Verizon, Ooredoo, Singtel and Telefonica, extrapolate the options for all carriers, and offer a framework to help managers define the right new business model goal for their organisation. (More)

Facebook + WhatsApp + Voice: so what?

So Facebook is buying the mobile IM app WhatsApp for $19bn including $4bn in cash, and WhatsApp is launching a voice service. Why, and what are the consequences and lessons for telcos and others? (More)

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• Disruption, Innovation and Transformation Strategies
• Next Generation Mobile Marketing and Commerce
• Big Data, Personal Data, Customer Data
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• New market analysis: latest best practices and use cases from across the globe
• A Combination of presentations, interactive workshops, networking, exhibits and live demonstrations
• Live demos: of cutting-edge mobile, cloud and big data solutions that enable more profitable relationships with consumers
• Comprehensive post event analysis all participants receive exclusive and detailed analysis and feedback from the brainstorm
• New STL Partners Research will be released at the event.

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Growing the Digital Economy: Lessons from Brazil, Mexico, and Iran

The success of digital economies is underpinned by the growth of the Internet. Our analysis of a number of economies shows that enlightened policy is more important than the wealth of the populace or any other measure. What are the key lessons? (More)

Cisco, Microsoft, Google, AT&T, Telefonica: the disruptive battle in communications

As well as telcos, established vendors and technology standards are being disrupted in communications. Our latest report analyses the market performance and challenges of key vendors and technologies in the voice and messaging markets. Including; LTE, RCSe, and WebRTC, and looks at platforms and services from Vodafone, Telefonica and AT&T. (More)

Self-Disruption: How Sprint Blew It

How Sprint's necessary shutdown of Nextel turned into a commercial disaster, losing valuable customers, reputation, and market share. Our analysis shows that amidst the drama of the Softbank deal and the complexity of a major network upgrade, SMB customer needs were neglected, and its competitors (VZW, AT&T and T-Mobile) stepped smartly in. (More)

Mobile Marketing and Commerce: NFC v BLE v SIM v Cloud

This new report will help digital commerce players assess some tough technology and strategy choices in the on-going mobile marketing and commerce battle. E.g Will bricks and mortar merchants embrace NFC, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), or cloud-based solutions? (More)

Telco 2.0 Transformation Index: Singtel, Telefonica lead AT&T, VZW and Ooredoo (all need more)...

…each are still at a relatively early stage of maturity and have much still to do, this new research provides an overall comparative benchmark and in-depth analysis of each against transforming their operations and building new 'Telco 2.0' business models. (More)

Threat to $172bn Telecoms revenues: Defence strategies & growth opportunities

Telcos' can fight back with opportunities worth as much as $80bn. The Future of Voice and Messaging, will aid better decisions on investments, external benchmarking, and competitor analysis including strategies for defending your business against disruptive competitors. (More)

Digital Commerce 2.0: How telcos can add c.$50bn to total revenues

If telcos fully commit to taking new roles as 'intermediaries' and 'enablers' in Mobile Commerce (advertising, marketing, payments, loyalty) and Personal Cloud, they could grow new revenues amounting to 5% of today's core revenues in 5 years. (More)