How Can Telcos Create Value for End-Users ?

I have written in the past about my fundamental dislike of Uber. In a nutshell, I don’t think Uber is particularly innovative, and I don’t think it would work if the industry they are attacking hadn’t been so behind

Net Neutrality is Good for Telcos

I was interviewed last Friday by dutch web newspaper Web Wereld about Net Neutrality. You are no doubt aware that the Netherlands could be the first European country to put net neutrality into law in response to incumbent KPN announcing

Reports of the telco’s death are exaggerated

In one of my briefings with a leading vendor last week in Milan, I asked them if they had a strategic response to the eventuality of one of more incumbents going bust in the next five years. Their first answer

Telcos and the culture of risk (or lack thereof)

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

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

Missing the video-communication train…

I'm coming back to a topic I dicussed already a few months ago, namely video-communication and the role that telcos could play in it. As you probably know if you read me, I'm convinced that TV6centric Video-Communication is as

Fabulous Lafayette

It's been weeks since I attended Fiberfete in Lafayette and I haven't written a single word about it. Shame on me. My excuse is that I've been traveling a lot since and also that it took me a while to

Home Video Telephony: is it too late for telcos ?

Last November, I published a report as part of Yankee Group's syndicated research service examining the case for video-telephony. In this report I stated that telcos should be quick to embrace what is potentially a killer app' for FTTH adoption

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

Surely you all remember this monument of absurd humour that is the All-England Summarize Proust Competition. I'm hoping that my attempt to summarize Ecomm is not quite as absurd, although I'm slightly worried considering James' complete cop-out and Brough's