Vodafone and BT say SMEs are top priority

June 8th, 2012 1 comment

Chief Analyst Teresa Cottam explains why mobile giant Vodafone and British incumbent BT are both looking to the SME sector for growth.

English: Corner Shop

English: Corner Shop (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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US leads the telco charge to verticalize

June 7th, 2012 No comments

Telesperience Chief Analyst Teresa Cottam looks at the latest telco buzz word aimed at producing more revenue from the enterprise sector – verticalization.

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Looking south from Top of the Rock, New York City (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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New revenue streams: CSP opportunities in the utilities market

May 21st, 2012 No comments

CSPs worldwide are excited about the opportunities presented by the rapid change taking place in the utilities market. While there has been much talk about M2M traffic, other opportunities have largely been ignored.  by Telesperience Chief Analyst, Teresa Cottam

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The undiscovered country: SME

May 18th, 2012 No comments

As CSPs see flat-lining revenues in many areas, and fret about the effect of OTT services and rising data traffic on their revenues and profitability, there is one area of the market that is highly underserved – offering considerable growth potential. This is the small and medium-sized enterprise sector. Telesperience Chief Analyst Teresa Cottam reveals some of the results of our latest research programme in this area.

Woman in small shop Ghana

Woman in small shop Ghana (Photo credit: World Bank Photo Collection)

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When addressing the enterprise and SME opportunity: don’t forget the basics

May 16th, 2012 No comments

 

VOSS’s Christopher May looks at opportunities for CSPs in the enterprise and SME markets, and reminds them what needs to be done to support UC services.

I got the feeling that there was someone tryin...

I got the feeling that there was someone trying to communicate with me via smoke signals. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Keeping innovation real in the Dominican Republic

May 15th, 2012 No comments

Teresa Cottam looks at the nature of innovation and at a great new example of customer-centric innovation from LATAM.

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Bandwidth crunch? Broken business model? What we have is a catering problem…

May 15th, 2012 No comments
Telesperience’s Teresa Cottam and Mobixell’s Seth Greeberg tell you why many of the problems we face in telecoms are basic catering issues.

A Chinese buffet restaurant in the United Stat...

A Chinese buffet restaurant in the United States of America (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

Maximising your revenues: why mindsets are harder to change than infrastructure

May 15th, 2012 No comments

Teresa Cottam looks at how CSPs can maximise their revenues, and starts at the very top of the CSP.

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Coins from Bosnia, Slovenia, Hungary, Denmark, UK... Magyar: érmék (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Billing for the Machines

May 14th, 2012 No comments

The rise of the machines is not just the tagline for a film, but it is also very much the future of mobile. In this article, FTS’s CEO Nir Asulin looks at the M2M opportunity.

 

The Terminator.

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More Battles in the Digital War

May 14th, 2012 1 comment

Ashley Bowen, a seasoned BSSOSS consultant, takes a look at recent events in the formulation of our digital future, and poses an important question about the interplay between standardisation and competition.

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