In recent months, I have become increasingly aware of how risk-averse telcos have become. Some might argue that they have never been much for taking risks. I'm not sure I agree with that: in the boom years of 1998-2001, telcos
Targeted Advertising? Really?
Photo by Cliff1066, Painting by Jasper Johns
This is somewhat of a tangential post, and it is the result of a rant I expressed on twitter. Some of the answers got my mind racing (thanks, @broadbandtrebds and @EveGr), but the
Sir Jobs Slays the Telco Dragon
Yesterday was a long day for me, I was presenting the results of a study to a customer and talked for nearly 6 hours straight. You would have thought that, sitting in the airport with a 3 hour wait ahead
Yankee Group Webinar Replay
The webinar that Yankee Group held today with myself and my colleagues Camille Mendler and Declan Lonergan was very well attended, and I decided to share the replay with you here. It’s all very interesting (I think) but for those
A Grave of Their Own Making
There was an article in Le Monde yesterday called Les Opérateurs Confrontés à la Saturation des Réseaux (Operators Confronted to Network Saturation) which summarised some of the key thinking (or is it posturing) that came out at Idate's Digiworld conference
Summarize Ecomm Competition
Visionary Verizon?
As you know the traditional telco model has been high on my mind these last few weeks. Discussions with people smarter (and better at disruptive thinking) than myself sparked a maturation process in my own thinking that led me
They will have smartness thrust upon them…
As a follow-up to my piece earlier today about Telcos in the new world, Martin Warwick of Telecom TV seems to agree with me that some telcos won’t be around much longer although he says it with his characteristic British
The Role of Telcos…
Lately I have been thinking hard (and discussing a lot) around the role of telcos in the decade to come. This train of thought is prompted by a variety of elements in the news, my own research work and discussion
Book of Walled Gardens
In the last few weeks, and particularly since the FTTH Business Model webinar that I and my colleague Wally held in late June, there's been some serious blogging and press coverage about this piece of research. More recently, I was