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When Ericsson CEO Borje Ekholm poured cold water on prospects of any real incentives to save telco fortunes in Europe, his timing was off. Read more…
When Ericsson CEO Borje Ekholm poured cold water on prospects of any real incentives to save telco fortunes in Europe, his timing was off. Read more…
Telcos and digital transformation should be terms that are uttered in the same sentence, but they are not. Not by a long way. Read more…
Say the words collaboration and telco and something seems wrong. For decades telcos worked alone, delivering pipes and connectivity. Read more…
Several hedge funds have been sniffing around telcos recently, with a view to major investment or outright purchase. Why? Read more…
When it comes to payments, we knew that the change towards contactless and mobile payments was accelerating hugely. Read more…
Telcos are failing to address the nanobusiness sector, defined as being smaller than the large enterprise, SME and microbusiness market segments. Read more…
According to the recent and much publicised report concluding that voice revenues are going to drop by 45% between now and 2024 Read more…
Three hot tech buzzwords in the telecom sector right now are edge computing, AI and blockchain. But what happens when you put them all together? Read more…
Telecos could learn from car manufacturers when it comes to marketing, and it’s not just about speed. Read more…
Shares in Japan’s big telcos jumped after market leader NTT Docomo announced smaller-than-feared price cuts, alleviating concerns about a price war. Read more…
Traditional revenue streams are drying up while costs of updating modern telecommunications infrastructure are soaring. How are telcos adjusting in 2019? Read more…
Operators are striding towards a 5G future with data speeds up to 100 times faster than 4G networks and billions of connected devices. Read more…
The truth is staring telco CFOs in the face: your industry and, almost certainly, your company is going to get smaller and less profitable. The party is over. Read more…
When someone stands up and says ‘people hate telcos’ you have, at least, to admit that they are brave and actually saying what we are all thinking. When a company uses the sentence in an Read more…
There were two articles recently that indicate telcos are turning themselves around and starting to make money from digital content services. First up was the presentation from Turkcell CEO, Kaan Terzioglu, at Huawei’s OTF event Read more…
We often wonder what stops telcos from grabbing opportunities that are laid at their feet, while would-be competitors stand around waiting to be pushed aside. Then, when nothing happens, the cool-kid competitors shrug, head to Read more…
Banks and telcos both have the same fundamental problems. In a race to modernize, which one would win? They both have a swiftly shifting customer base, a world that is being turned upside down as Read more…
Something is not right with the telecoms industry just now. Some of you would say it hasn’t been right for a long time but a number of things have happened of late that make me Read more…
Telcos have spent the last few years trying to become cool. In many cases, they have been pretty successful. Once the ‘OMG OMG’ reaction to the rise of the OTT players had settled, they started Read more…
The 20 largest telcos with headquarters in Europe and North America slashed more than 63,000 jobs last year, and ten of them have cut nearly 21,000 roles in 2017 as companies automate their operations and Read more…
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