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
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
Yankee Group Webinar Replay
The webinar that Yankee Group held today with myself and my colleagues Camille Mendler
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 (
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
Book of Walled Gardens
In the last few weeks, and particularly since the FTTH Business Model webinar that I