Most telcos are very aware that they need to embrace digital transformation if they want to remain competitive. But the huge market upheaval, and the ongoing rapid pace of change, makes it difficult for operators to settle upon a strategy, let alone invest in the capabilities they need to see it through.
The advent of the embedded SIM, or e-SIM, is seen by many operators as a threat to their business models.
SIMs that can be soft-switched between networks would appear to make it easier for customers – and in particular millions of devices on the IoT – to be moved between networks.
These digital disruptors just do not stop, do they? Having totally transformed transport habits worldwide with its taxi-booking app, Uber now has the takeaways industry in its sights.
With its sister service UberEats, Uber is primed to gobble into a global takeaway market worth a whopping $75 billion. Designed to rival the likes of Deliveroo and JustEat, UberEats is available in several US cities, and more recently launched in London and Sydney. From cabs to kebabs in one fell swoop. Read More →
The operator To Do list reads rather heavy on self-improvement these days: go digital, seek fulfilling partnerships, do everything possible in order to become more flexible and agile…
Shopping and socializing: that’s what we spend a good proportion of our time on the Internet doing, live Tweeting America’s Next Top Model while simultaneously scrapping it out on eBay for that total bargain, must-have roll of vintage William Morris wall paper… (Well, that’s what my Saturday nights look like anyway). So it felt like it made sense when the two biggest draws of the Internet began to merge, with the advent of Twitter’s ‘Buy’ button.
In this fast moving digital age, the app revolution feels like a distant memory. Certainly, its halcyon days – when we consumers rummaged the app store, hungry to gobble up the latest app – are over. Long over.
A month has passed since the closing of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. But although the event lasts less than a week, its effects reverberate around the industry for many months – before the cycle in the second half of this year begins to look towards MWC 2017. Read More →
We noted an unusual news story this month, which raises the spectre of telecoms consumers being targeted as a source of government revenue. According to this report, the Nigerian government is looking at imposing a communication service tax on consumers of voice, data, SMS, MMS and payTV services, to compensate for falling oil revenues. Read More →
So the Mobile World Congress is over for another year. Our anticipation of easier travel thanks to the new metro stop was somewhat dampened by the transport strikes, carefully timed for maximum effect. But the show must go on, and it did, and no doubt the taxi drivers had an excellent week – as did we. Our stand was ‘buzzing’, said one visitor, our cloud demos in great demand, and our meetings and conversations productive and, we hope, mutually beneficial to all parties.
The partnership between Barcelona and MWC is set to continue for a few more years, and there’s certainly no doubt that partnerships were taking centre stage at the show – between vendors, between operators, and even between countries and governments with the EU and Brazil signing a 5G co-development agreement, with talk of other such treaties in the pipeline. Read More →
Welcome to 2016 – a year where we feel a powerful wind of change blowing through the telco industry. January usually brings an avalanche of resolutions and predictions, but we’re also focusing on evolution and revolution – advances that will bring radical transformation and cost efficiencies to operators, and higher levels of service and satisfaction to their customers. Read More →
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