Archive for October, 2007
A False Sense of Certainty
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007Uncertainty is the biggest barrier to investment.
Of course, we cannot eliminate uncertainty altogether, so we rely on “experts” to help us measure it - is a risk really a RISK or is it just a risk? When experts agree, we start to relax because we compound the weight of their opinion - that many experts […]
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The Two Headed Beast
Monday, October 22nd, 2007It is strange to see an industry worth $1.3 trillion a year feeling powerless. Perhaps Canadians can understand it - they have a GDP of $1.3 trillion too - but the powerlessness in telecoms doesn’t come from having a behemoth on the doorstep. It appears to me that telecoms operators are more like heroin addicts, […]
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Luddites
Friday, October 19th, 2007It has been decided. Your use of telco services can be tracked, built into a profile and used to advertise to you. Everywhere you go on the internet and everywhere you take your mobile phone is data that operators can use to make money from you. It has been decided…
Sorry?
I am not a fundamentalist!Regular readers […]
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The Big Stick
Thursday, October 11th, 2007In my final post ahead of Telco 2.0 next week, I would like to outline the key questions that I will be looking for answers to next week.
It is important for me to stress up front that the opinions expressed in this and all other articles on this blog (excluding the comments) are my own […]
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Cheaper, Safer - not Richer
Friday, October 5th, 2007Am I looking in the wrong place? I wrote earlier this week that although telco platforms might make 3rd party services richer, there is a problem because every feature that a telco might enable is already being copied by application platforms that run over the top. On reflection, I wonder if what telcos really bring […]
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Joost: Does Anyone Care Anymore?
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007Joost went to full beta this week, something that was met with barely concealed scorn by the majority of commentators for whom the service is now very much yesterday’s next big thing. Reading the 30 or so comments on TechCrunch is a window on how people perceive the initiative.
Arrington: “They really milked the notion of […]
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Platforms, Platforms Everywhere
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007With Telco 2.0 fast approaching, it seems appropriate to devote some space to the trend that is sweeping across the internet. Fair play to Simon Torrence, Martin Geddes and co, they have been working on this thesis for a few years now.
My summary of the Telco 2.0 Manifesto goes something like “Telcos need to open […]
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