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Understand the implications of the evolving infrastructure value chain as SDN, NFV and cloud computing challenge the dominance of traditional vendors
Communication service providers (CSPs) are going digital. As they shift from CSP to Digital Service Provider and seek to become more agile their approach to sourcing and relationship with traditional vendors is changing. Their priority is to deliver faster, all-IP, cloud-driven services with vendor and hardware agnostic infrastructure.
The challenge for network vendors is navigating a new and rapidly evolving value chain as new competitors enter the previously walled garden of the telecoms market. At the same time technologies such as 5G, FFTs, GPON, G.Fast, and Mobile Edge Computing present new opportunities.
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OTT players, a diverse group of businesses using the Internet to deliver their services, are looking to capitalize on such opportunities and in many cases are better positioned to do so. Operators shouldn’t necessarily see such companies as an instant threat however – often it makes better business sense to work together.
World Broadband Information Service (WBIS) is an online database of broadband, fixed-line telephony and multichannel TV subscriber numbers from 2000 to present day, with 5-year forecasts. Launched in 2003, WBIS combines intelligently sourced data from the leading telecoms industry players with robust forecasts and an unrivaled analyst support service.
Act on changing consumer attitudes to the adoption and consumption of digital services
Service Provider Markets
By Ari Lopes 19 Feb 2019
Telefonica has sold its operations in Guatemala and El Salvador to its rival America Movil to reduce debt and free up capital for investment in strategic priorities such as 5G. Reducing debt is also a crucial step towards recovering investor confidence.
Consumer and Entertainment Services
By Nicole McCormick 19 Feb 2019
Ovum's new bundling forecasts estimate that subscriptions to next-generation bundles will make up almost 40% (352 million) of total bundled subscriptions by 2023.
Consumer and Entertainment Services, Internet of Things
By Mariana Zamoszczyk 18 Feb 2019
A roundup of key events in the smart home market in January.
Consumer and Entertainment Services, Internet of Things
By Mariana Zamoszczyk 18 Feb 2019
A roundup of key events in the smart home market in December.
Service Provider Technology
By Don Frey 15 Feb 2019
On February 14, 2019, DriveNets, a startup, announced $110m of round A funding for a disruptive service provider routing solution with a cloud-native software package running on partners' white-box hardware.
Consumer and Entertainment Services, Internet of Things
By Michael Philpott 14 Feb 2019
Amazon has announced that it is acquiring eero, an innovative and well-respected mesh Wi-Fi vendor, with the purpose of helping its customers better connect smart home devices. To truly help consumers, all vendors need to move toward open standards such as the Wi-Fi Alliance's EasyMesh.
Service Provider Technology
By Daryl Schoolar 12 Feb 2019
One of the major strengths of the mobile ecosystem has been common standards. These standards have helped create a global market for vendors' devices and network kits. This could come undone if the banning of Chinese mobile technology in the Western world leads to the creation of two sets of standards.
Service Provider Technology
By Ian Redpath 12 Feb 2019
With OFC 2019 rapidly approaching, due to start on March 3, 2019, a number of industry themes are crystallizing that will garner substantial interest at the conference.
Consumer and Entertainment Services
By Pamela Clark-Dickson 12 Feb 2019
A lack of informed user consent for how Facebook collects and combines data and concerns over its market dominance lie at the heart of a recent decision against the company by Germany's competition regulator.
Service Provider Technology
By Jaimie Lenderman 11 Feb 2019
Cable operators are doing the math on Full Duplex DOCSIS (FDX) and many are finding that Node+0 is a difficult goal to achieve alongside a newly implemented distributed access architecture (DAA).
Consumer and Entertainment Services, Internet of Things
By Eden Zoller 05 Feb 2019
The benefits of increasing connectivity and advances in AI can only be realized if service providers and other stakeholders treat data privacy as a long game and plan now for the challenges ahead.
Service Provider Markets
By Sarah McBride 04 Feb 2019
On January 24, 2019, the French association of alternative telecoms operators submitted an antitrust complaint to the competition regulator about the incumbent Orange. The association of 45 operators is not only apprehensive about the level of competition on the legacy infrastructure for ADSL connections but also worried about the implications this has on fiber deployment.
Consumer and Entertainment Services
By Charlotte Palfrey 01 Feb 2019
In January 2019, Facebook announced that it intended to merge the messaging capability of its holy trinity of messaging apps: Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Users of these apps will be able to send messages to any of the other apps without the need for both users to be on the same platform. This integration marks a departure from previous promises that Instagram and WhatsApp would remain independent.
Consumer and Entertainment Services
By Rishi Kaul 31 Jan 2019
On January 17, 2019, Fossil announced a $40m sale of smartwatch IP to Google. The deal is centered on smartwatch IP acquired when Fossil purchased activity tracker company Misfit, an expert in health and fitness technology.
Consumer and Entertainment Services, Internet of Things
By Ronan De Renesse 30 Jan 2019
Voice will capture some revenues from existing consumer spending, but the real opportunity resides in its ability to generate some additional growth.
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