Defining the future telco — and what it means for operators and their partners
Shifting Profit Pools and Strategic Growth Opportunities. Presentations from the Digital Economy 2.0 stream of the Digital Arabia Executive Brainstorm & Innovation Forum, 6th November 2012, in Dubai. (November 2012)
Digital Economy 2.0 digital Arabia November 2012
New Payment, Advertising and Retail Experiences. Presentations from the Digital Commerce 2.0 stream of the Digital Arabia Executive Brainstorm & Innovation Forum, 7th November 2012, in Dubai. (November 2012, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption)
Digital Commerce 2.0 digital Arabia November 2012
In our recent briefing European Mobile: The Future’s Not Bright, It’s Brutal, we predicted that European operators faced a grim future. New figures from Vodafone and Telefonica suggest that, unfortunately, the grim future is arriving fast. (November 2012, Executive Briefing Service, Transformation Stream.)
Vodafone results Nov 2012
New Business Models for a multi-screen, mobile Arabia. Presentations from the Digital Entertainment 2.0 stream of the Digital Arabia Executive Brainstorm & Innovation Forum, 7th November 2012, in Dubai. (November 2012)
Digital Entertainment 2.0 digital Arabia November 2012
New analysis by the Telco 2.0 team shows that the mobile industry’s combined revenues from voice, messaging and data services in the EU5 economies (UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy) will drop by nearly 20Bn Euros, or 4% per year, in the next five years, and by 30Bn Euros by 2020. (October 2012, Executive Briefing Service)
Euro Voice Brutal Future October 2012
Telcos traditionally think of every new service as a profitable new revenue source, and create services in silos with little thought for the total customer experience and overall creation of value. In contrast, the big internet and tech players typically build their future offerings as part of an integrated strategy to raise the overall value of their platforms. This extract from ‘A Practical Guide to Implementing Telco 2.0’ shows key lessons for telcos. (September 2012, Executive Briefing Service, Dealing with Disruption Stream.)
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Generic Telco Strategies September 2012
The fight for the Cloud Services market is about to move into new segments and territories. In the build up to the launch of our new strategy report, ‘Telco strategies in the Cloud’, we review perspectives on this shared at the 2012 EMEA and Silicon Valley Executive Brainstorms by strategists from major telcos and tech players, including: Orange, Telefonica, Verizon, Vodafone, Amazon, Bain, Cisco, and Ericsson (September 2012, Executive Briefing Service, Cloud & Enterprise ICT Stream).
Cloud Growth Groups September 2012
Telefonica and Vodafone are both European-based tier 1 CSPs with substantial revenues, cash flows and subscribers. They have both expanded beyond Europe – Vodafone into Africa and Asia and Telefonica into Latin America. However, their Telco 2.0 strategies are rather different. In this extract from our forthcoming report, A Practical Guide to Implementing Telco 2.0, we outline their Telco 2.0 strategies and their benefits and risks. (September 2012, Executive Briefing Service, Transformation Stream.)
Telefonica Strategy 2.0 Chart
‘Telco 2.0’ has evolved considerably since we put forward the original concept for telcos’ future success in 2006. Here we dispel ten myths and misunderstandings that have also evolved that can misdirect strategy. (August 2012, Executive Briefing Service, Transformation Stream.)
impact of 2sbm aug 2012 small
LTE is gaining traction in Asia Pacific and the US, despite challenges with spectrum, voice, and handsets. In South Korea, for example, penetration is expected to exceed 50% within 18 months. Our report on the lessons learned at the 2012 NGMN conference. (July 2012, Executive Briefing Service, Future of the Network Stream)
LTE in Korea
Digital Things 2.0: The findings of the fourth Digital Things 2.0 Executive Brainstorm, part of the New Digital Economics EMEA event held in London on June 12-13. The Brainstorm explored the challenges and opportunities in the M2M market, the Internet of Things, service enablement platforms, and the importance of data analytics.
Digital Things 2.0: Event Summary Analysis Presentation
Cloud 2.0: The findings of the second Cloud 2.0 Executive Brainstorm, part of the New Digital Economics EMEA event, held in London June 12-13. The brainstorm explored how to make money from cloud services, the role of telcos and how to best harness the rising tide of big data and personal data to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the cloud. (June 2012, Executive Briefing Service, Cloud & Enterprise ICT Stream)
Cloud 2.0: Event Summary Analysis Presentation
Digital Commerce 2.0: The findings of the fourth Digital Commerce 2.0 Executive Brainstorm, part of the New Digital Economics EMEA event, held in London, June 12-13. 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 kinds of enablement platforms telcos should create.
Digital Commerce 2.0: Event Summary Analysis Presentation
Telco 2.0: The findings of the 18th Telco 2.0 Executive Brainstorm, part of the New Digital Economics EMEA event, held in London 12-13 June. This event was designed to drive market transformation, encompassing new forms of voice & messaging for the digital consumer, customer experience management, and the future of telecoms operators’ networks.
Telco 2.0: Event Summary Analysis Presentation
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)
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
Charts summarising the audience votes from the New Digital Economics Executive Brainstorm, 12-13 June 2012, Grange St Pauls Hotel, London. (July 2012)
EMEA June 2012 Summary Charts
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