This 'Executive Briefing' provides an overview of the Telco 2.0™ opportunity for telecoms operators and explores the potential to create 'platform' businesses in the areas of retail, wholesale and B2B2C value-added services. 

Telcos possess data assets which could be hugely valuable to those looking to enrich and optimize market research, customer profiling and ad targeting efforts. The challenge lies in defining, mining, analysing and packaging them for maximum value to upstream customers.

Two-sided markets are a developing concept that should urgently be applied to the telecoms industry, to accelerate growth without great additional cost.

This briefing document focuses on consumer's requirements underlying the consumption of current and future voice and messaging services.

An analysis of the changes in technologies, industry structures, business models and customer behaviours driving future market scenarios and the strategies required to prosper in the online video distribution market.

A summary of leading strategic analysis on the overall status and seven hottest topics in telco business model innovation: open APIs, retail services, devices, online video distribution, enterprise services, technical architecture, and Telco 2.0 pilots.

While the market for mobile broadband services (3G/WiMax/Dongles/Netbooks etc.) is growing explosively, today’s telco propositions are based on out-moded business models which threaten profitability. Telco 2.0 proposes innovative retail and wholesale approaches to improve returns.

There's under 3 years for telcos to exploit some of the new business model opportunities beyond connectivity and 'one-sided' retail, delegates at the EMEA Telco 2.0 Brainstorm concluded. What is the opportunity framework, and which opportunities do they have the best chances to succeed at? Full report from the Brainstorm. (Executive Briefing, December 2010)

In theory, Microsoft and Skype have the resources, the brands, the customer base and the know-how to shape the future of telecoms and become a strategic counterweight to Apple and Google. Can they do it – and what should telcos’ strategy be? (June 2011)

Single user license for our report on how Apple's iCloud, iOS5, and MacOS developments build value and control for Apple's digital platform, and their consequences on other parts of the digital ecosystem, including the impact of iMessage on text messaging. (June 2011)