Telecom Services White Papers
The Times, Are They Changing? The New Service Provider Reality
Overview
Service provider markets have never seen such turbulence. For decades, service
providers operated with proven technologies in benign regulatory environments
and stable markets. The industry has seen some change over the years, but the rise
of the Internet and the Telecom Act in the 1990s wildly accelerated it. Now service
providers confront unprecedented change on practically every front. Subscriber
markets, once so thoroughly dominated by providers, have not responded to new
services offered as service providers anticipated. New regulation, revolutionary
technology and maturation of traditional markets have altered competitive
dynamics forever.
This white paper summarizes our findings from three
segments that contributed significant information, namely the CLECs, MSOs and
wireless carriers. Just as prosperity and ebullient financial markets once encouraged innovation and
risk taking, economic downturn and uncertain financial markets have turned many
service providers cynical and risk-averse. In reaction, major industry segments are
rapidly consolidating. Yet our discussions with service providers point to a way out
of this cycle and to long-term recovery.
| Publisher | Tia Online | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | August 2002 | Downloads | 10 |
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