Full Article: iFlood – How better mobile user interfaces demand Layer Zero openness
Internet video is a tightly-coupled system – so changes in the user interface, like the iPhone, can force seismic shifts in the physical infrastructure.
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Defining the future telco — and what it means for operators and their partners
Full Article: Device evolution: More power at the edge
There is incontrovertible evidence that “intelligence” always moves towards the edge of telecom networks. What can telcos do about it? (Mar 2009)
Full Article: Credit Crisis, Part 8: Show Us Your Labs
The eighth and latest of our acclaimed series on the global financial crisis
Full Article: Defining the Digital Generation: Young Today, Grey Tomorrow
The activities of today’s youth will cascade across the generations. Service providers need to be ready for the customer of the future
Online Video Distribution: how will the market play out?
Disruption in the online video distribution market presents “a once in a lifetime chance to change their place” for some and a severe strategic threat for others. Likely scenarios and strategies that players should adopt for success. (Executive Briefing, Future of the Networks Stream, Feb 2009.)
Full Article: BSkyB Platform – Lessons
BSkyB’s platform shows a multi-sided business model in action, bringing value to both upstream and downstream customers and earning decent returns for shareholders.
Full Article: Online video distribution
This briefing summarises key outputs from a recent STL Partners research report and survey on Online Video Distribution. It considers the evolution of the key technologies, and the shifting industry structures, business models and behaviours involved in content creation, distribution, aggregation and viewing.
Full Article: LiMo – The Tortoise picks up Momentum
LiMo is the most Telco 2.0 of mobile Linuxes – why did their showing at MWC impress us so much?
Full Article: The Digital Generation: Introducing the Participation Imperative Framework
The “Participation Imperative Framework” describes new customer behaviour and needs that will drive future product and service innovation.
Full Article: Consumer voice and messaging 2.0 – understanding and meeting user needs
NB. This 30+ page article can be downloaded in PDF format here or browsed on-screen below. © Copyright 2009. STL Partners. All rights reserved.STL Partners published this content for the sole use of STL Partners’ customers and Telco 2.0™ subscribers. It may not be duplicated, reproduced or retransmitted in whole or …
Consumer voice and messaging 2.0 – understanding and meeting user needs
Telco voice and messaging products have barely changed in 50 years – but the internet offers Operators new threats and opportunities. This briefing reviews what really drives communication so Telcos can enhance their core services for the Telco 2.0 world. (Executive Briefing, Jan 2009)
Full Article: Introducing Two-Sided Markets: A Template For Future Growth In Telecoms?
Two-sided markets bring together two distinct groups of customers, with a platform provider enabling and enhancing direct interaction between them.
Executive Briefing: Unlocking the value of Telco customer data: An advertising and marketing use case
The granular targeting potential of telco, and telco-enabled, services brings the real promise of a resolution to the Wanamaker Dilemma which has traditionally afflicted advertisers
Introducing Two-Sided Markets: A Template For Future Growth In Telecoms?
Details the move towards a two-sided marketplace for telecoms services, and the relevance of that change to future retail, wholesale and B2B value-added services (VAS) platforms. (Jan 2009, Foundation 2.0)
Unlocking the value of Telco customer data: An advertising and marketing use case
The granular targeting potential of telco, and telco-enabled, marketing services is attractive to advertisers, but how can telcos make it work in practice? A review of latest thinking. (Executive Briefing, Jan 2009)
A New Role for Telcos in the Digital Economy
How Telcos can avoid inevitable market decline by exploiting their core skills, assets and relationships to create new sources of growth. This key overview is a review and restatement of the original Telco 2.0 Market Study. (Dec 2008, Executive Briefiing Service, Telco 2.0 Transformation Stream)
Full Article: Credit Crunch (Part 7) – If Telcos Don’t, Cisco Will
Telcos must use their balance sheet strangth to invest in the future, before other players recover from the crisis. (Jan 2009)
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