Welcome to the latest edition of Update, fortnightly analysis from the Telco 2.0™ Initiative:
Vodafone: Too much 'da', not enough 'vo' or 'fone'
"Ask not how data can replace lost voice revenue, but how data can rejuvenate the personal communications experience." Satisfying people's need to collaborate, chatter, and communicate should be central to every operator strategy. Here's why... (More)
Amazon Kindle: A Wireless Trojan Horse?
The Kindle vision is "every book, ever printed, in any language, all available in less than 60 seconds." But the most interesting part of the equation for us is Whispernet, Amazon's wireless data network for subscriber management and content delivery... (More)
Promotion
New Telco 2.0™ Business Model Strategy Reports – 10% discount for Update readers.
Three groundbreaking reports now available:
- Future Broadband Business Models – "Beyond bundling: winning the new $250Bn delivery game"
- The 'Two-Sided' Telecoms Market - "Sizing the new $125Bn platform services opportunity"
- Voice & Messaging 2.0 – "Re-inventing the Original Killer Apps"
Details here or email contact@telco2.net
Telco 2.0 Case Study: Disrupting the Brazilian Payments Market
Paggo, a mobile payment service from GSM operator Oi is a direct competitor to Visa and Mastercard. It exemplifies the things that 'over the top' services can't do well but telcos can: trust, handling money, exploiting a large user base, on-the-ground distribution, and customer support... (More)
Telco 2.0 Case Study: Mobile Signatures in Turkey
Mobile Signature is very 'Telco 2.0'. It should be a big success for Turkcell which has formed a partnership with 12 local banks. They save on fraud and transaction costs, users gain convenience, and the operator gains additional high margin messaging traffic... (More)
Telco 2.0 Use Case: Optimising Rolls-Royce's Field Services
Rolls-Royce is a successful and sophisticated business. But enterprise IT is challenged to properly support important field service and logistics processes. A golden opportunity to exploit telecoms capabilities... (More)
Partner Promotion
Broadband Stakeholders Group Annual Conference
9 June 2008, London
Beyond Pipe Dreams? - Prospects for next generation broadband in the UK
By far the most important event this year on Next Generation Access policy. Speakers from HM Government, European Commission, BBC, BT, Ofcom. Two new research reports will be launched on 'The Social and Economic Value of Next Gen Broadband' and 'Models for Efficient Public Sector Investment'. If you have colleagues in the UK, send them. It's a superb line of speakers. (More)
Telco 2.0 Case Study: Telenor's Content Provider Access
The world's 7th largest mobile operator is also one of the most innovative with its business models. As it develops a strategy called 'Telenor 2.0' it is looking to expand 'two-sided' market opportunities. But there's a serious problem with the IT department... (More)
Telco 2.0 Innovation: Profiting from Gigawatts, not Gigabytes
Save the world from high energy prices and environmental problems? Mix secure location-aware messaging with a 'two-sided' business model and you a 'demand-response' system that it commercially viable for the electricity grid and for customers... (More)
Hot News
iPhones that look like Windows!; FeliCa hacked; Google's app store; BREWidgets; Intel - they're back; Phorm demonstrations; Virgin Media adds more limits to unlimited broadband; KPN launches mobile TV - sort of; mobile phone shipments sink in Europe... (More) |
