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Back in 2001, there were some 200 global telecom service providers. Now there might be more than 800 service providers. Within a decade, 85 percent of service providers might be gone, reducing [...]

“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, [...]