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Gigabit and beyond: pricing and positioning strategies

  • While residential gigabit access has been technically feasible for years, few service providers have included it in their portfolios. It seemed highly unlikely that the customers would be willing to pay for such speeds, let alone actually perceive a change ...

Can Iliad Succeed in the US Market?

 

A topic that I’ve been following closely over the summer despite a relatively lackluster press coverage in non-French speaking media is the attempted bid by Iliad on T-Mobile US. This is interesting to me for a number of reasons,

Benoit Felten - September 5, 2014 - Business Models, Opinions business model - costs - iliad - lean - t-mobile - us

Broadband and Over-the-Top

Plum Consulting has released a really excellent and concise paper on the impact of over-the-top services on the telco business model. It’s entitled (appropriately) Over-the-top – hindering or helping achieve European Digital Agenda goals? If you read me on a

Benoit Felten - June 17, 2013 - Net neutrality, Opinions, Policy benefits - business model - net neutrality - OTT

Table Ronde du G9+ le 24 Juin

(Apologies for non-French speakers but since this is an announcement for a French event in French, it didn’t seem to make much sense writing it in English.)

 

Le 24 Juin, le G9+, un Think Tank formé d’anciens

Benoit Felten - June 12, 2013 - Business Models, Opinions access - business model - france

Ventura’s Stefan Stanislawski gives the low-down on FTTH Financing in Europe

Excellent short summary of Ventura’s excellent report on funding.

Benoit Felten - February 26, 2013 - Business Models, Opinions, Policy business model - funding - ventura

Fixing broadband as a service

Flowing Water
Flowing Water (CC) bcimet

Martin Geddes is one of the smartest brains in the business, and a good friend. That doesn’t stop us from disagreeing on a number of things (business related), the chief one being the notion that internet

Benoit Felten - November 19, 2012 - Business Models, Opinions access - broadband - business model - martin geddes - traffic management

AT&T was good at seeing the future, not at executing on it…

A few weeks back at the Alcatel Lucent analyst event, author Douglas Coupland treated us to a post-dinner speech on visions of the future. It was an interesting moment, but the highlight for me was these video adverts that he

Benoit Felten - June 19, 2012 - Business Models, Opinions, Policy at&t - business model - douglas coupland - ecosystem - future - open - vision

Diffraction Analysis NGA Workshop in Bogota

In two weeks time on June 1st, my excellent ex-colleague Wally Swain and I will be running a one-day workshop on NGA business models in Bogota, Colombia, on the backend of the ACIEM Telecom Conference.

The purpose of the workshop

Benoit Felten - May 19, 2012 - Business Models, Opinions business model - ftth - latam - nga

FTTH is (relatively) cheap!

In case you missed it, here's an opinion piece I posted on the Diffraction Analysis blog last week, about the relative cost of FTTH and why it's (in my opinion) generally not apprehended in the right way. It's called FTTH

Benoit Felten - April 23, 2012 - Business Models, Opinions business model - cost - fiber - fibre - ftth - relative

Possible Free Mobile Tariffs and their Impact on the French Telecom Scene

Fr_dp The French tech internet is abuzz with rumours that Free's upcoming mobile tariffs have been unveiled (apparently by some UBS analyst?) as stated here. I don't normally post on the basis of unconfirmed information, but while very aggressive, these

Benoit Felten - September 14, 2011 - Business Models, Opinions bouygues - broadband - business model - france telecom - free - iliad - mobile - orange - sfr - tariffs

The Rise and Fall of Dong Energy’s Fibernett

In the report The Rise and Fall of Dong Energy’s Fibernett, James Enck explores the failure of the largest Danish utility FTTH network. Quite often, case studies concern themselves with success stories, but we believe that understanding failures is just

Benoit Felten - August 24, 2011 - Reports, Services, store business model - denmark - go to market - james enck - M&A - regulation - utility

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