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Defining the future telco — and what it means for operators and their partners


Euro telcos: fiddling while the platform burns?

Most executives across the European telecoms industry accept that the current telco business model is in decline (the ‘burning platform’), but wholehearted action to create sustainable new models is not in place. We identify the key barriers and next steps to overcome them in this top-level analysis of findings from our recent EMEA Executive Brainstorm. (July 2012, Executive Briefing Service, Transformation Stream.)
UK Services Revenues: Actual and Forecast (index)

Executive Briefing Service — July 2012

Personal Data: how to make it a viable, customer-centred industry

For ‘Personal Data’ to realize its potential as a new class of economic asset there needs to be a global, cross-industry approach that empowers and protects consumer users, enables businesses, and that has scope for appropriate governance. This report is a summary of the significant progress made towards this aim made by the World Economic Forum’s Re-thinking Personal Data ‘Tiger Team’, facilitated by STL Partners with the support of the Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium, MIT Media Lab, Microsoft, Ctrl-Shift and other leading experts, at meetings held in March 2012 in San Jose, and in London in June 2012. (July 2012)
WEF Personal Data principles draft June 2012 small

Executive Briefing Service — July 2012

HTML5: market impact and telco strategies

HTML5 will have a profound impact on consumers’ and businesses’ interaction with the web in coming years. In particular, HTML5-compliant smartphones may lead to a reduction in the power of closed app platforms such as Apple iOS and Google Android. While this seems broadly positive for telcos, there may also be negative side-effects of the increasing capability of standardised (and often free) Internet capabilities.

Executive Briefing Service — May 2012

Digital Entertainment 2.0: Report and analysis of the Silicon Valley Event 2012

Digital Entertainment 2.0: A summary of the Digital Entertainment 2.0 session, held on the 28th March 2012, Marriott Hotel, San Francisco, part of the New Digital Economics Silicon Valley event. The Brainstorm explored how reduce complexity in Mobile Video, the opportunities in Social TV, new ways to monetize content in a multi-platform world, and the role of telcos in creating alternative enabling platforms.
Digital Entertainment 2.0: Event Summary Analysis Presentation

Executive Briefing Service — May 2012

Digital Commerce 2.0: Report and analysis of the Silicon Valley Event 2012

Digital Commerce 2.0: A summary of the findings of the Digital Commerce 2.0 Executive Brainstorm, 28 March 2012, held in the Marriott Hotel, San Francisco, part of the New Digital Economics Silicon Valley event. The Brainstorm explored how to scale adoption of mobile wallets, enable new forms of ‘localised commerce’, how individuals and companies can harness personal data, and what sorts of enablement platforms telcos should create. (July 2012, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption Stream).
Digital Commerce 2.0: Event Summary Analysis Presentation

Executive Briefing Service, Consumer — May 2012
Mobile TV: going ‘Round The Side’ of telco networks?

Mobile TV: going ‘Round The Side’ of telco networks?

Dyle TV, a new mobile TV broadcast network (supported by Fox), was presented at the Silicon Valley Brainstorm against the backdrop of Cisco’s VNI (Visual Networking Index) research on forecast growth in mobile video traffic. It was argued that Dyle’s model can both take the pressure off mobile operator data capacity by taking video traffic ‘round the side’ and make good use of TV broadcasters’ spectrum. Could this model work, not only in the US but elsewhere around the world? (May 2012, Executive Briefing Service)
Doc Searls, Telco 2.0 Video Still April 2012

Executive Briefing Service — May 2012

Telco 2.0: how to accelerate the implementation of new business models

Opportunities exist for operators to support third-party businesses in Customer Profiling, Marketing offers, ID & Authentication, Network QoS, and Billing, Payments & Collection. However, our in-depth research among senior execs in ‘upstream’ industries (e.g. retail, media, IT, etc.) and telcos shows that poor communication of the telecoms value proposition and slow implementation by operators is frustrating upstream customers and operators alike. Our independent new analysis (kindly sponsored by Openet) identifies strategic customer segments for telcos building new ‘Telco 2.0’ business models, key obstacles to overcome, six real-world implementation strategy scenarios, and strategic recommendations for telcos. (April 2012, Executive Briefing Service, Transformation Stream.)
Google’s Advertising Revenues Cascade

Executive Briefing Service — April 2012
Digital Commerce 2.0: Silicon Valley Executive Brainstorm 2012, Day Two (Wednesday 28 March)

Digital Commerce 2.0: Silicon Valley Executive Brainstorm 2012, Day Two (Wednesday 28 March)

Harnessing personal data to revolutionize Payments, Advertising and Retail Experiences. Presentations, votes, output and analysis from the Digital Commerce 2.0 stream of the New Digital Economics Brainstorm, 28th March 2012, in San Francisco. (March 2012, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption Stream)
Digital Commerce 2.0 Silicon Valley March 2012

Executive Briefing Service, Consumer — April 2012

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