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July 2008 - Telco 2.0
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The current telecoms business model is approaching its ‘end of life’. Today, we’re previewing here on our blog an updated Telco 2.0™ Manifesto which we hope will provide a cogent reference point for creating a vibrant new business model at the heart of the digital economy. This second edition reflects the changes in our thinking over the last two years since we launched the Telco 2.0™ Initiative . It is based on output from four major Telco 2.0™ ‘executive brainstorm’ events , multiple consulting...
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We’ve long believed that the real reason you build an open telco platform is to facilitate interactions between merchants and users, not to enable a supply chain of media or entertainment products. The telco industry uniquely has relationships with nearly every economically active person, a means to reach them, and customer data that nobody else has. We’ve asked Thomas Howe , an authority in the space of communications enabled business processes , to explain the real significance of BT’ s entry into...
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The current EC review of Telecoms Law and the UK government consultation on Illicit P2P Downloading (announced last week) threaten the ISP s relationship with its customers. Legislation alone will not solve the Content Industries problems with the internet - ISP s have capabilities they can bring to the table to help ease the pain. Throughout history, whenever an industry is in meltdown, bullets of blame are sprayed everywhere and the industry players turn towards governments and the legal system...
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Qualcomm, best known for owning a lot of patents on cellular radio tech, has an interesting new product out — and it involves a large yellow backhoe loader. Not quite what you’d expect! But a regular theme in Telco 2.0 is that the real value for the telecoms industry isn’t in the consumer entertainment applications everyone loves, but in the enterprise. That means working with people and things, driving out labour, energy and working capital costs. First we’ll go through what the product does, before...
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In Today’s Issue : All the Vodafone that’s fit to print; just what’s in that tall glass of mobile data?; the Spanish builder menace; AT&T discovers principled objection to mergers, porcine aviator sighted; Sprint flogs towers; Sprint’s multi-gigabit radio backhaul, departure from the NGMN ; is MediaFLO short of spectrum?; frantic open-source activity; Nokia pays for friends; Intel dumps Ubuntu from its mobilinux; Win95 on a Nokia N810 ; better voicemail for all; Bundesnetzagentur’s odd idea of...
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Telco 2.0 is running a series of depth interviews with senior people in the Telco-Media-Tech sector. To start with, to support our summer research programme on new Content Distribution business models , we caught up with Tony Rallo, CTO of Televisa , the Mexico-based media giant which is also the world’s biggest creator and distributor of spanish-language content . Tony has deep expertise in digital media (previously he worked for Apple in Europe). The global spanish-language market he serves (LATAM...
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Online Video consumption is booming. The good news is that clearer demand patterns are beginning to emerge which should help in capacity planning and improving the user experience; the bad news is that an overall economic model which works for all players in the value chain is about as clear as mud. We previously analysed the leffect of the launch of the BBC iPlayer on the ISP business model, but the truth is that, even in the UK, YouTube traffic still far outweighs the BBC iPlayer in the all important...
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The Telco 2.0 research team is undertaking some detailed business modelling around ‘Rich Media Distribution’ over the summer. We’ll also be debating this with industry leaders on 4-5 November at our next event in London. More on both of these anon. In the meantime, here’s some analysis of Verizon’s P4P next generation file swapping initiative : We’re not sure how it happened, but Verizon appears to be turning into one of the most interesting telcos around. For a start, there’s the fibre - but then...
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In Today’s Issue : Some phone or other launched; “ZZZPhone” debunked; Verizon ODI dip stick; Launchcast “Dashboard” open to hackers, in a good way; Verizon - dangerously interesting?; Sprint pushes push-to-talk; iPhone Truphone; NTT DoCoMo on the unwise monster acquisition trail again; unwitting private equity fund sups with Richard Li, helps 3UK double its customer base; pass the separator, Mme Reding; Comcast in trouble with the FCC ; open search at Yahoo!; the coming mobile data boom? Apparently...
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In a previous article we provided an introduction to what we believe is the template for future growth in telecoms: two-sided markets. Having got the basic facts laid out, now we can take a closer look at some of the consequences of moving from one-sided to two-sided markets. Two-sided markets in a nutshell A brief reminder of what we’re talking about. In a one-sided market, merchants buy in equipment and services, taking on inventory risk. They combine them in some value-adding way, and sell the...
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