Digital Arabia 2012: How Telcos Must Act Smartly to Avoid the West’s Doldrums

Digital Arabia 2012: How Telcos Must Act Smartly to Avoid the West’s Doldrums

Digital Arabia 2012: At the Digital Arabia Executive Brainstorm in Dubai, November 2012, we found that the region is on the edge of an exciting period of growth in digital commerce, entertainment and public sector services, enabled by mobile in particular. However, success depends on telcos and others working together effectively to put key enabling digital platforms in place, and this is not yet happening fast enough to avoid the stagnation now seen in many Western markets. How can this be changed?
Digital Arabia 2012: How Telcos Must Act Smartly to Avoid the West’s Doldrums

Europe’s brutal future: Vodafone and Telefonica hit hard

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