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Tag Archives: UK
New MVNOs: Challenger brands and lessons from the UK market
Disruptors from other industries are turning their attention to the mobile market. They can learn from the vibrant UK MVNO market.
FTTP: Key market, policy and structural trends
Fibre-to-the-premises is now mainstream, but varies widely across nations in market maturity, industry structure, telco versus altnet roles and government policy. We outline plausible end-state models for FTTP markets.
The utility trap: Staying on the right side of regulators
As society becomes ever more dependent on connectivity, telcos face a growing risk of being regulated like traditional utility companies. This report details how operators can avoid falling into “the utility trap” and drive growth in the next decade.
Brexit: Telecoms Strategy Implications – #1 Prioritise Transformation
The UK’s vote to leave the European Union came as a shock to many, and has complex ongoing consequences. We summarise briefly what happened, possible scenarios, and give our initial view on the implications for telcos, their business partners and the innovation ecosystem.
European Mobile: The Future’s not Bright, it’s Brutal
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
Mobile Broadband 2.0: The Top Disruptive Innovations
Key trends, tactics, and technologies for mobile broadband networks and services that will influence mid-term revenue opportunities, cost structures and competitive threats. Includes consideration of LTE, network sharing, WiFi, next-gen IP (EPC), small cells, CDNs, policy control, business model enablers and more. (March 2012, Executive Briefing Service, Future of the Networks Stream).
Trends in European data usage
Full Article: Online Video Usage – YouTube thrashes iPlayer, but for how long?
Online Video demand patterns are becoming clearer but a working economic model is not. What’s next? (July 2008)
Full Article: BBC’s iPlayer nukes “all you can eat” ISP business model
The impact of the launch of BBC’s online video service “iPlayer” on the UK DSL industry based on live network data. (Feb 2008)