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Europe’s Big Boys Partner for Big Business
UNDER A WIDE-RANGING ENTENTE, two of Europe’s largest integrated operators are redrawing the rules of telco partnership, according to Informa Telecoms & Media team analysis. Deutsche Telekom (DTAG) and France Telecom-Orange (Orange) jointly aim to accelerate top-line revenue growth by collaborating in hot service areas like M2M, but the partnership also promises to streamline the operational costs… Read more
Warning! Dumb Pipe or Dumb Cloud, Same Danger
Terrified of a dumb pipe future, telecom operators have lemminged to the Cloud. The awful truth: Telcos have just replaced one big problem with another. For the majority, generic, ‘dumb’ cloud services dominate. What’s to differentiate them from each other, or indeed,from their non-telco competitors? Take a guess. Once the cloud’s digital assets are fungible, the only real differentiator becomes… Read more
