Recent Articles

Consumer voice and messaging 2.0 - understanding and meeting user needs (in: Executive Briefings)
Jan 28, 2009

Telco voice and messaging products have barely changed in 50 years – but the internet offers Operators new threats and opportunities. This briefing reviews what really drives communication so Telcos can enhance their core services for the Telco 2.0 world. (Executive Briefing, Jan 2009)

Executive Summary: Introducing Two-Sided Markets: A Template For Future Growth In Telecoms?
Jan 26, 2009

Two-sided markets bring together two distinct groups of customers, with a platform provider enabling and enhancing direct interaction between them.

Executive Summary: Unlocking the value of Telco customer data: An advertising and marketing use case
Jan 26, 2009

The granular targeting potential of telco, and telco-enabled, services brings the real promise of a resolution to the Wanamaker Dilemma which has traditionally afflicted advertisers

Introducing Two-Sided Markets: A Template For Future Growth In Telecoms? (in: Executive Briefings)
Jan 26, 2009

Details the move towards a two-sided marketplace for telecoms services, and the relevance of that change to future retail, wholesale and B2B value-added services (VAS) platforms. (Executive Briefing, Jan 2009)

Unlocking the value of Telco customer data: An advertising and marketing use case (in: Executive Briefings)
Jan 26, 2009

The granular targeting potential of telco, and telco-enabled, marketing services is attractive to advertisers, but how can telcos make it work in practice? A review of latest thinking. (Executive Briefing, Jan 2009)

A New Role for Telcos in the Digital Economy (in: Executive Briefings)
Jan 26, 2009

How Telcos can avoid inevitable market decline by exploiting their core skills, assets and relationships to create new sources of growth. This key overview is a review and restatement of the original Telco 2.0 Market Study. (Executive Briefing, Dec 2008)

Full Article: Credit Crunch (Part 7) - If Telcos Don't, Cisco Will
Jan 26, 2009

Telcos must use their balance sheet strangth to invest in the future, before other players recover from the crisis. (Jan 2009)

Full Article: Nokia and Symbian - Missing an Opportunity?
Jan 22, 2009

The recent purchase of Symbian by Nokia highlights the tensions around running a consortium-owned platform business.

Credit Crunch Update (Part 7): If Telcos Don’t, Cisco Will (in: Strategy / Industry)
Jan 19, 2009

Telcos must use their balance sheet strangth to invest in the future, before other players recover from the crisis. (Jan 2009)

Full Article: Transactions, telcos' future in one word
Dec 31, 2008

Amazon presents an excellent example of a 2-sided transactions platform. Werner Vogel, Amazon CTO, explains. (Dec 2008)