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Personal Data 2.0: Industry fails Carrier IQ test

The debacle with Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile US over Carrier IQ’s phone monitoring software highlights the pitfalls and opportunities of recording user behaviour, controlling mobile broadband networks and working with personal data – a key enabler of the new digital economy and new telco business models. This is our analysis of the issues and key lessons. (December 2011, Executive Briefing Service)
Carrier IQ Smartphone Eye image Dec 2011 Telco 2.0

Your Text is on Fire: OTT’s to burn 40% SMS revenue by 2015

In four years’ time, Telco SMS revenue will decline on average by around 40% across Europe and the Middle East according to the senior execs at this month’s Telco 2.0 brainstorm in London. The main cause is competitive pressure from ‘OTT’ alternatives (Facebook, Skype, Google, BBM, etc). Mobile voice isn’t that far behind, with a 20% decline foreseen. What can be done and what is the role of RCS-e? (November 2011, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption Stream).
EMEA Messaging Decline reasons Nov 2011

Voice 2.0: Strategic Threats and Opportunities

Voice & Messaging 2.0: Strategic Threats and Opportunities, Presentation by Phil Laidler, Director, Consulting, STL Partners. Which of the disruptors – Apple, Facebook, Google, Skype – is the biggest menace? Presented at EMEA Brainstorm, November 2011.
Strategic options for telcos – resisting the disruptors in voice

Voice 2.0: RCS-e – the next generation of communications services (Vodafone/Deutsche Telekom Presentation)

Voice & Messaging 2.0: RCS-e, the new generation of communications services?, Presentation by Cenk Serdar, Director, Data and Communications Services, Vodafone Group, and Rainer Deutschmann, SVP Core Telco Products, Deutsche Telekom. Is RCS-e our future? And if so, what kind of future? Presented at EMEA Brainstorm, November 2011.
Strategic options for telcos – resisting the disruptors in voice

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