Winning Strategies: Differentiated Mobile Data Services

A small and surprising set of national operators are delivering outstanding performance in the challenging European market. Our analysis shows how they're achieving differentiation with smart strategies that target the hottest customer need, and the considerable ramifications for the rest of the market. (More)

Dealing with Disruption: Your Input Please

We’re seeking input from strategists and decision makers across industries to our forward research agenda on Dealing with Digital Disruption here. {NB For a ‘warm-up’, we outline of some of the high-level lessons and strategies for success in dealing with disruption here.}

Mastercard, Teliasonera, Facebook, Unilever, Globe, CitiBank and Singtel are just a few of the region's leading TMT players converging in Bali this December for the ground breaking Digital Asia 2014 event. Representatives from the world of telecoms, technology, the internet, advertising, financial services, content and entertainment will gather to exchange breakthrough ideas, case studies, methodologies and tools to grow significant new revenues for all parties in the next 12-18 months.

Apple Pay & Weve Fail: A Wake Up Call

The unveiling of Apple Pay and unravelling of Weve (the UK operators' payments venture) looked like bad news for telcos' ambitions in mobile payments in some markets, and highlighted challenges to Google and others' models. Yet there are already successful telco models and favourable market trends that telcos should exploit. So what are the opportunities now? (More)

Connected Car: Key Trends, Players and Battlegrounds

Connected cars are set to revolutionise the automotive industry as we know it, turning the car into the 'ultimate mobile device' and driving the growth of M2M in a big way. With Apple, Google, telcos and many others in the chase, we analyse the growth drivers, value chain, and key battles for control of this increasingly complex ecosystem, and outline a new connected car services framework. (More)

Connected Home: Telcos vs Google (Nest, Apple, Samsung, +...)

Since Google acquired Nest for $3.2bn, Apple and Samsung have also entered the complex battle for the connected home. We analyse in-depth why Google wanted Nest, the players' goals and strategies, and what should telcos and others do to stay in the game? (More)

Free-T-Mobile: Disruptive Revolution or a Bridge Too Far?

Recent twists in the USA have seen Sprint drop its bid for T-Mobile USA and Iliad, Free.fr's parent company, table a surprise bid of its own. Free's bid for T-Mobile USA will stretch its finances and management capacity to the limit, but can its package of tactics, technology, and procedures work in the US context? (More)

Transformation: Vodafone needs a Telco 2.0 revolution

We've just updated the Telco 2.0 Transformation Index with data from Vodafone, and the results show that it, like AT&T and Verizon, needs a revolution in its approach to transformation in certain key areas. How, why, and what can be done? (More)