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MobiNEX: The Mobile Network Experience Index, Q4 2015

For the first time, STL Partners quantifies the customer ‘app experience’ on twenty-seven mobile networks in seven countries. MobiNEX – The Mobile Network Experience Index – benchmarks mobile operators’ network speed and reliability by measuring download speed; average latency; error rate and latency consistency. It’s based on billions of real customer data points provided by our partners Apteligent. Congratulations to the top three performers – Bouygues, Free and Orange (all in France).

Executive Briefing Service — April 2016

MWC 2016 Overview: 5G, the Cloud, and the Internet of Things

The mantra of MWC 2016 was “5G, the cloud, and the Internet of Things”. We think that, underlying the buzzwords, there is a more profound reality for telcos. This is that they need to encompass many of the learnings and techniques of the IT industry to transform to a new breed of truly agile player. Fast.

Executive Briefing Service, Network Innovation — March 2016

MWC 2016: 5G and Wireless Networks

5G was one of the dominant topics at MWC 2016, and a key theme was the push by many infrastructure vendors and chipset manufacturers to bring forward the timeline for development of an early version of 5G. Some leading operators are also stepping up to support this vision. Fortunately, the “early 5G” group’s wish-list is relatively simple: it’s about capacity, cost, and carbon dioxide.

Executive Briefing Service, Network Innovation — March 2016

MWC 2016: The Cloud/NFV Transformation Needle Moves

What was hot at MWC? We round up the action around cloud, SDN, and NFV – and discuss the impact of open-source.

Executive Briefing Service, Consumer, Enterprise Platforms, Network Innovation — March 2016

MWC 2016: IoT & Enterprise

What was hot at MWC? We round up the action around enterprise IT and the Internet of Things.

Enterprise Platforms, Executive Briefing Service — March 2016

Problem: Telecoms technology inhibits operator business model change (Part 1)

The last few years have seen attempts by many leading telecoms operators to refresh their business model and generate new sources of growth and value. Now many digital initiatives are being scaled back. Telefonica and Telenor, two companies in the vanguard of the ‘drive to digital’ have both disbanded their digital organisations. In the first of two reports, STL Partners explores why efforts to yoke platform and product innovation businesses to a traditional infrastructure business have proved so difficult. The financial and operational constraints associated with traditional telecoms – particularly the need for long investment cycles in ‘one-function’ infrastructure – have made achieving the switch to ‘agile digital innovation’ all but impossible. But all that may be about to change and the future could be a little brighter.

Executive Briefing Service, Network Innovation — January 2016

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