Developing closer ties with the media sector has been a key strategic question for telecom service providers since the early 00s with the deployment of the earliest triple play bundles. Recently though the topic seems to have gained a new
What it takes to compete with Over-The-Top television
For the last few weeks, I have been busy working on a big in-depth report on NGA services. Although its importance can sometimes be exaggerated, TV content is of course at the heart of NGA portfolio considerations, and I
The disaggregation of linear TV is accelerating…
From Business Insider’s The Future of Digital
I was just talking yesterday about two French ISPs having given up on building their own linear content packages. One might argue that they did this in part because they see linear
Xavier Niel on French TV
There was a feature on Xavier Niel on a French TV News show this week. Reproduced here, but it’s (obviously) all in French…
Cisco Umi Survey Results
I let the Cisco Umi survey run until last night. As of that time, there were 66 respondants (not bad…) Before I comment the results, let me stress that I do not consider this to be either unbiased or statistically
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
Nifty Little Services from Optimus
