The audience will be told that operators and content providers will have to stop competing and start co-operating through revenue sharing deals. Speakers from communications consultancy Schema, BT Genie and KPMG Consulting, among others, will...
Data protection issues will be of high importance because CRM necessarily works with some of the most precious data a client company owns. In its early stages, CRM software vendors focused on integrating the three principal domains of activity...
Some operators are already starting to respond. The cable operators, with their debt problems behind them, will regain momentum aided by further consolidation. Cable operators should view the incumbent telco's move on pricing as a wake-up call...
However, any paid-for Wi-Fi offering, whether from Starbucks/T-Mobile or a service provider using The Cloud, will face challenges. Clive Longbottom, research director at Quocirca, said: "The business models haven't been sorted out yet.
P-Cube's Service Control software gives operators application-level control of existing IP transport networks, which, according to Cisco, will enable service providers to analyse, control and meter application and content-based services.
My advice to the incumbent operators is to follow the payload, provide the services and facilities people really value. As for the mobile operators - especially those who invested heavily in networks unlikely to break even from their licence...