Tag: Partnerships
This week the UK was on track to catch up with the rest of Europe by announcing its version of the ‘right to be forgotten’ law. This is obviously good news for privacy advocates. But you have to wonder if the backlash – if backlash it is – against overuse of people’s data will swing […]
If there is one word that sums up this year’s Mobile World Congress it is partnerships. Finally, the mobile world has become comfortable with the notion that it cannot be all things to all men. It is reminiscent of a moment over a decade ago. The music industry was on its last legs. The internet […]
The communications industry now realizes that Over the Top (OTT) players can be friends, not foes. Without them CSPs cannot take advantage of the app economy and will lose an opportunity to support an entire digital ecosystem. While they will, without doubt, try to win back dwindling revenues from voice and text that Skype, Viber […]
The trouble with data is that it simply does not go very far. There are other problems too, of course, such as no-one understands and it fills customers with fear, but as one IT Director at a major US carrier said, “2GB of data is not a lot of video.” No wonder then that operators […]
I’m reliably informed by people much, much younger than me that BFF means best friend forever (however fleetingly). Looking at the recent advances in our industry, it seems that some operators, OTTs and content providers are becoming friends and raising hopes that they’ll start making enough money by working together to become BFFs. It wasn’t […]
TM Forum Live was almost an exact replica of last year’s event, but there was one interesting difference. The mood was more serious. There were the usual number of booths, the usual number of cocktail receptions and the usual number of conference sessions (too many). It was just that the mood was more serious. The […]
A recent and well researched project from Telecoms.com focused on the impetus that is driving partnerships between operators and OTT players. Part of the research pointed to a feeling that both camps are having a reality check. Many involved on both sides are beginning to see difficulties – and 38 percent in each camp believe there is […]
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