“Everybody” knows that the telecom industry has a “perception of value” problem. A new conferencing service launched by Amazon illustrates the problem. Before your head blows off, this is a [...]
Generally speaking, future telecom strategies come in two basic flavors. The first is the “be the low cost access provider” strategy. Among the key issues: can an entity gain enough scale to [...]
A growing number of experienced observers now say the industry is headed for a cataclysmic change in the next decade. The optimistic view is that new value propositions and value will drive the [...]
Getting industry professionals ready for an industry we will not recognize is the purpose of Industry Transformation Boot Camp, a week-long program explaining what is coming; why it is coming; [...]
Most of us are comfortable noting that some important telecom products are past their peak, and now are set for permanent decline. Voice provides the best example. Subscriptions to fixed voice [...]
It is a bit of a truism that telecom companies change pretty slowly. That is a problem in an industry that believes it would be better to move at the tempo most large application providers [...]
Not every generation of mobile networks has been as “successful” as the others, measured in terms of accounts, customers or revenue generation. The 2G network arguably has been the [...]
The fundamental purpose of the fixed network, historically, has been to enable communications service for retail customers, consumer and business. Over time, the role of the network for backhaul [...]
Ofcom, the U.K. communications regulator, has decided to auction 190 MHz of spectrum in two frequency bands, increasing mobile capacity by nearly a third. Some 40 MHz of spectrum will be [...]
By 2025, the global telecom service provider industry is going to shrink from 800 firms to about 105, lead by just five global giants, according to Bell Labs. That is a reduction of 87 percent, [...]
Among the potential 5G business model challenges is a mismatch between the expected value of use cases and hoped-for revenue opportunities. Put simply, the gigabit speeds 5G will enable for [...]
Chinese operators are on track to launch commercial 5G networks by 2020 and are expected to establish China as the world’s largest 5G market by 2025, according to a new study by GSMA Intelligence [...]
The coming 5G era is likely to be quite different from all prior generations of mobile networks, in several ways. First, it is likely to be the first mobile network generation whose new revenue [...]
Internet of things is the number one priority for 92 percent of organization executives surveyed by Vanson Bourne, Inmarsat says. To be sure, the survey concentrated on industrial sectors where [...]
Are you ready for cataclysmic change in the telecom industry? Do you want to learn what is coming and what you need to do, right now, to survive a huge industry shift? If so, then PTC’s [...]