telecom
Huawei gives its strategy a strong ICT spin
Huawei’s Shenzhen-based annual global analyst summit had a particularly strong telecoms/IT convergence flavour to it this year. President of corporate strategy Will Zhang went so far as to claim in his keynote that whoever does the best job of integrating telecoms and IT architecture changes into its products over the next ten years will end… Read more
Where’s the beef in telco SaaS?
Microsoft Office 365 is becoming to telco SaaS what the Big Mac is to fast food. That’s not a health warning, but a fact, based on a 38-country study* of 51 communication service providers’ business SaaS portfolios that I’ve just completed. Microsoft powers an astonishing 51% of these CSPs’ productivity and collaboration offers. Want a SaaS… Read more
Telcos: Want to fight OTT? Learn from SNCF’s Olympian bet
All aboard! France’s SNCF wants your cheeks on a seat – but not necessarily on a train. With Olympics trade in mind, the French rail giant just launched a Paris-to-London coach service. Branded idBus, the service claims a four-star experience at a two-star price. An odd move for a global leader in rail transport? It’s actually… Read more
