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    1. Big Data, Personal Data & Privacy: The Telco Opportunity

      Explore STL Partners (Apr 25 2012) Business Models , Marketing

      Those who follow Telco 2.0 (and come to our events) will know that we've been working with the World Economic Forum (WEF) on their 'Re-thinking Personal Data' project for the last two years, which is about how 'personal data' can be turned into a new class of economic asset. Here is a recent video we made recently to explain the opportunities in this space, with some more useful links below. We are currently ... (Read Full Article)

    2. M-Commerce: can Voice 2.0 make mobile ads work at last?

      Explore STL Partners (Mar 7 2012) Business Models , Marketing , Mobility

      M-Commerce: can Voice 2.0 make mobile ads work at last? One of the things that our Facebook pre-IPO analysis highlighted was that Facebook has 425 million mobile users and isn't making a penny from them. It's a top priority for them to change that, and the constraints of designing a good mobile user experience mean that it will take all their ingenuity to shoehorn adverts into the mobile client. Further, even within the online version of Facebook, customers are in 'social' rather than ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Razorfish   Jajah

    3. M-Commerce 2.0: Operator Billing - 'it's the merchants, stupid'

      Explore STL Partners (Feb 8 2012) Business Models , Marketing

      In this guest post, Telco 2.0 partners SLA Mobile argue that operators must focus on merchants' needs to make Direct Operator Billing (DOB) work, and unlock and monetise new assets through M-Commerce. "It's the economy, stupid" was the mantra of Bill Clinton's successful 1982 Presidential Campaign - this simple message cut through the fog of political rhetoric and helped Clinton win. SLA Mobile say operators must adopt a similar single-minded focus on merchants ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Mobile World Congress   Bill Clinton   Informa

    4. Free Mobile: Very Telco 2.0 Indeed

      Explore STL Partners (Jan 11 2012) Business Models , Mobility

      The web is agog about the launch of Free.fr's mobile network, long awaited. Om Malik interviews CEO Xavier Niel, and it's quite impressive how much Telco 2.0 comes up. "Since it is our own set-top box, we can innovate around it," he says. "In the U.S., they buy their set-top boxes from other providers." That's a mistake and lost opportunity, Niel says and proceeds to outline how pivotal these ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   LTE   Jack Dorsey

    5. 2011 in Review, Reviewed: Telco 2.0 News Review

      Explore STL Partners (Jan 3 2012) Business Models

      Telco 2.0 News Review Year in Review: Reviews of 2011, reviewedContent 2.0: Top 10 pirated films, UltraViolet review, Akamai-Cotendo falloutBroadband Connectivity: IMS brings VZW LTE to its kneesRIM: Crisis club's co-CEOs cut own wages to C$1Technology Disruptions: Karsten Nohl and the massive GSM security breach. Again It's the first Telco 2.0 News Review of 2011, and as a result, we thought we'd begin with a review of reviews ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Qualcomm   IMS   Electronic Frontier Foundation

    6. New Analysis: Cloud 2.0: don't blow it, telcos

      Explore STL Partners (Sep 9 2011) Marketing

      Enterprise cloud computing services need great connectivity to work, but there are opportunities for telcos to participate beyond the connectivity. What are the opportunities, how are telcos approaching them, and what are the key strategies? Our new report Cloud 2.0: don't blow it, telcos includes forecasts for telcos' shares of VPC, IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. There's more here. Extract - Figure on Growth Forecasts by Service Type (Read Full Article)

    7. Strategy 2.0: The Six Key Telco 2.0 Opportunities

      Explore STL Partners (Jul 21 2011) Business Models

      Our latest report summarises the six Telco 2.0 opportunities to transform telcos' business models for success in an IP-based, post PSTN world. The summary chart is below and 10 overview pages are reproduced here. The Six Key Telco 2.0 Opportunities This report also includes an extract from the latest Telco 2.0 Strategy Report The Roadmap to New Telco 2.0 Business Models, updates on latest developments, and feedback from over 500 senior ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   TMT

    8. Mobile Broadband 2.0: How to Profit from putting the Customer in Control

      Explore STL Partners (Jun 22 2011) Business Models , Marketing

      Mobile Broadband 2.0: How to Profit from putting the Customer in Control Sophisticated segmentation, enabled by new OSS/BSS solutions, can put the consumer in control of their spend and create a more sustainable mobile broadband ecosystem for all stakeholders. At next week's Telco 2.0 Best Practice Live! virtual event (28-29 June), Stefan Hedelius, Head of Strategy and Marketing at Ericsson's Multimedia Business Unit, presents a set of real-world case studies around online gaming and street vending machines that demonstrate this. Here's a ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   France Telecom   Orange Group   Jajah

    9. Mobile Broadband Economics: LTE 'Not Enough'

      Explore STL Partners (May 26 2011) Marketing

      Innovation appears to be flourishing in mobile broadband. At the Telco 2.0 EMEA Executive Brainstorm earlier this month we saw working applications that enable a.) users to monitor and control their network usage and services and b.) operators to support 'dynamic pricing'. Despite growing enthusiasm for LTE, delegates considered offloading traffic and network sharing strategies as at least as effective in managing costs. See the full analysis on our research site. Ericsson's Mobile ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   LTE   Ericsson   Emea

    10. Telco 2.0 Roadmap: $375Bn Growth or Brutal Retrenchment?

      Explore STL Partners (Apr 14 2011) Business Models , Marketing

      Today we're launching our groundbreaking 284 page Strategy Report 'The Roadmap to New Telco 2.0 Business Models' that plots the transformational path that telcos need to follow to achieve the $375Bn p.a. 'Telco 2.0' opportunities. It describes: • six key growth opportunity areas for the Telecoms industry; • new categories of operators based on their potential to adopt the new opportunities; • the primary strategies needed by each to evolve and thrive in the ... (Read Full Article)

    11. Getting to a Billion Smartphones in 2013

      Explore STL Partners (Mar 25 2011)

      We've just published Getting to a Billion Smartphones in 2013, a report by Telco 2.0 partners Arete Research on the prospects for the Smartphone market. The report forecasts the emergence of smartphones costing just $100 to make in 2011 and massive growth in global market sales volumes, with impacts for chip-makers, Smartphone OS, and telcos. It includes: Forecasts of Smartphone shipments by region to 2015 Smartphone Mix and Margins Getting to the $100 ... (Read Full Article)

    12. The Growing Role of Software in New Telco Business Models

      Explore STL Partners (Mar 8 2011) Business Models , Marketing

      This guest post by Telco 2.0 partners SAP explores the growing role of software and software vendors in enabling new multi-sided telco business models, including M2M/embedded (with healthcare examples), and new forms of distribution such as the Amazon Kindle model. [NB We'll also be covering new telco business models, new forms of distribution, M2M, and much more at our upcoming Brainstorms in the Americas, 5-7 April, EMEA, 11-13 May, and APAC 22-23 ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   AT&T   IBM

    13. Telcos risk missing the UltraViolet online video opportunity

      Explore STL Partners (Mar 4 2011)

      2011 sees the introduction of the UltraViolet digital locker platform by DECE, a consortium led by 6 of the 7 top Hollywood studios and backed by 50 more cross-industry heavyweights. This anticipates and supports the transition of film and TV to online distribution. In a report just published on our research site (link here) we analyse the opportunities telcos will miss out on if they fail to engage with DECE. The UltraViolet Proposition: 'buy once ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Emea

    14. Telcos unlocking 3-Screen Revenue Opportunities

      Explore STL Partners (Feb 8 2011) Business Models , Marketing

      Telcos unlocking 3-Screen Revenue Opportunities This guest post by Telco 2.0 partner Wipro Technologies describes the 3-screen opportunity, and a broad-based solution construct for 'Content Monetization Solutions' which are critical for realizing the opportunity. Background As the Media industry continues its shift towards the digital world, Studios, Music labels and TV/Cable networks continue to be faced with wider and better opportunities of monetizing content aided by direct and engaging connections with the end consumers. Laptops/ PC's, TV ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Forrester Research   Wipro Technologies

    15. Why CSPs Can't Afford to Miss the Cloud

      Explore STL Partners (Jan 25 2011) Marketing , Unified communications

      Why CSPs Can't Afford to Miss the Cloud [Ed. This is a guest post by Telco 2.0 partners Parallels who are running the 6th Parallels Cloud Summit, February 22-24 2011 at the Gaylord Palms Hotel and Convention Center in Orlando, Florida (more here).] It could be argued that Communications Service Providers (CSPs) missed some opportunities in the last 10 years. They certainly didn't lead the market in the mobile application revolution. The next big opportunity is with Cloud services. And, simply ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   CSP   Cloud Services

    16. M2M doomed to remain a cottage industry?

      Explore STL Partners (Dec 3 2010) Business Models

      M2M doomed to remain a cottage industry? By Phil Laidler, Consulting Director and 'M2M 2.0' Programme Leader, STL Partners/Telco 2.0 Initiative (philip.laidler@stlpartners.com) Is the machine-to-machine market doomed to remain a cottage industry dominated by overpriced SMS? Delegates at the 'M2M 2.0' session at the 11th Telco 2.0 Executive Brainstorm in London last month were quite clear what the problems, opportunities, and solutions are. As this chart shows, the biggest barriers to greater adoption of ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   OTA

    17. Telcos in the Cloud: IBM, Orange, and Oracle @ Telco 2.0

      Explore STL Partners (Nov 9 2010)

      This afternoon has been an optimistic one at the Telco 2.0 executive brainstorm - you could say our heads were in the clouds. Specifically, the Cloud Services session has been more than interesting. Speakers from IBM - Craig Wilson, VP Global Telecoms Industry - Orange - Stephan Hadinger, Chief Architect for Cloud Computing - and Oracle, with Neil Sholay, VP Cloud and Communications - gave a string of presentations that encouraged us to hope that the cloud might not be ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Oracle   Cloud Services

    18. Entertainment 2.0: Can Telcos help save the Video Distribution Industry?

      Explore STL Partners (Oct 20 2010)

      Entertainment 2.0: Can Telcos help save the Video Distribution Industry? The physical distribution of digital video is in turmoil, and the entertainment industry is in a state of fear and denial about online distribution. The signs are that Video could emulate the music market's disappearing act. Can telcos help? In the run up to our Digital Entertainment 2.0 Summits in Los Angeles (28 October) and London (10 November) we provide some background analysis: If you want to know what the entertainment supply chain ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   DRM   Digital Entertainment   Emea

    19. Mobile Advertising: Making it Scale (Eventually)

      Explore STL Partners (Sep 27 2010) Marketing

      From SMS, through Smartphone and browser Apps, the potential of mobile marketing has long been understood and yet unfulfilled. So what is the current status? This post outlines our recent and new research on telco enabled advertising and marketing. It's also the VERY 'last chance to see' the material from our first 'Best Practice Live!' online event, with the videos coming offline on 28th September, so please watch the ones you want to see ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Ericsson

    20. What's next for Broadband?

      Explore STL Partners (Sep 23 2010) Business Models

      Much recent debate has been focused around 'Net Neutrality', and Telco 2.0 has published our analysis on this in Net Neutrality 2.0: Don't Block the Pipe, Lubricate the Market. This post outlines our recent and new research on this and Future Broadband Business Models, and how we will cover the developments on this topic at the Americas Brainstorm in L.A., 27-28 Oct, and the EMEA Brainstorm in London, 8-9 Nov. It ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Dean Bubley   Emea

    21. Digital Entertainment 2.0: New Growth Opportunities

      Explore STL Partners (Sep 20 2010) Business Models , Marketing

      This post on new Telco 2.0 opportunities in Digital Entertainment is the second of our daily posts this week, summarising our recent and new research for the Americas Brainstorm in L.A., 27-28 Oct, and the EMEA Brainstorm in London, 8-9 Nov. It's also the 'last chance to see' the material from our first 'Best Practice Live!' online event, with the videos coming offline on 28th September, so please watch the ones you ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Vodafone   AT&T   Apple

    22. OFCOM Communications Review: The Customer of the Future is Here

      Explore STL Partners (Aug 19 2010)

      OFCOM Communications Review: The Customer of the Future is Here OFCOM's annual Communications Market Review is out (pdf, charts and spreadsheets here), and it is of course packed with chewy data. Taking a first look into the 379 page behemoth, we've noticed a couple of interesting points about the industry and the customers of the future, the people who took centre stage in our Serving the Digital Generation strategy report. Before we get to that, though, here's a very important chart indeed ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Ofcom   Amazon.com

    23. Press Release: Broadband 'Happy Pipes' worth $416Bn by 2020

      Explore STL Partners (Jun 16 2010) Business Models , Marketing

      Both fixed and mobile broadband markets will continue growing in revenues, up to $416bn in 2020, but operators face some hard decisions about future business models, according to a new study published by the Telco 2.0 Initiative. The report, "Mobile, Fixed & Wholesale Broadband Business Models: Best Practice Innovation, 'Telco 2.0' Opportunities, Forecasts and Future Scenarios", finds that telecom operators will benefit from both new types of broadband wholesale and more sophisticated direct-to-consumer retail ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Dean Bubley

    24. Google: 3 Big Telcos Reach For Their Guns

      Explore STL Partners (Apr 12 2010) Business Models , Marketing

      Google: 3 Big Telcos Reach For Their Guns Earlier this week the Financial Times reported that Deutsche Telekom, Orange Group and Telefonica had mounted a joint assault on Google, accusing YouTube of taking 'a free ride' on telcos' networks. The argument is that with the immense growth of video traffic on networks that the internet giant should be helping to alleviate the costs, and that this might in some way help the media industry too. Are they blindly pursuing self-interest, or are there ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Telefonica   Google   France Telecom