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Business Models: February 2008

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

As the Mobility Era matures, obviously a key question will be “how to make money?”. There are plenty of opinions on the best answer to this question. The below is very inclusive and I provide no editorial functions, so don’t take from my selections, ordering, headlines, etc. any indications of the interests or plans of my employer (if you do, you’ll undoubtedly be disappointed when they don’t play out):

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Now playing: Jonathon Smith - Where Do I Begin?

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Business Models: January 2008

Monday, January 28th, 2008

As the Mobility Era matures, obviously a key question will be “how to make money?”. There are plenty of opinions on the best answer to this question. The below is very inclusive and I provide no editorial functions, so don’t take from my selections, ordering, headlines, etc. any indications of the interests or plans of my employer (if you do, you’ll undoubtedly be disappointed when they don’t play out):

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Now playing: Sara Groves - Abstraction

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Business Models: December 2007

Friday, December 28th, 2007

As the Mobility Era matures, obviously a key question will be “how to make money?”. There are plenty of opinions on the best answer to this question. The below is very inclusive and I provide no editorial functions, so don’t take from my selections, ordering, headlines, etc. any indications of the interests or plans of my employer (if you do, you’ll undoubtedly be disappointed when they don’t play out):

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Now playing: Caedmon’s Call - Need Your Love

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Business Models: November 2007

Monday, November 26th, 2007

As the Mobility Era matures, obviously a key question will be “how to make money?”. There are plenty of opinions on the best answer to this question. The below is very inclusive and I provide no editorial functions, so don’t take from my selections, ordering, headlines, etc. any indications of the interests or plans of my employer (if you do, you’ll undoubtedly be disappointed when they don’t play out):

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Now playing: Tuck Andress - Rudolph The Red - Nosed Reindeer

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Business Models: The Google Edition 11/07

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

As the Mobility Era matures, obviously a key question will be “how to make money?”. There are plenty of opinions on the best answer to this question. This month there has been lots of speculation related to Google’s plans around mobility, so here is a “special edition” of the monthly Business Models feature focused on opinions related to Google.

The below is very inclusive and I provide no editorial functions, so don’t take from my selections, ordering, headlines, etc. any indications of the interests or plans of my employer (if you do, you’ll undoubtedly be disappointed when they don’t play out):

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Now playing: The Roches - For Unto Us A Child Is Born

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Business Models: October 2007

Monday, October 29th, 2007

As the Mobility Era matures, obviously a key question will be “how to make money?”. There are plenty of opinions on the best answer to this question. The below is very inclusive and I provide no editorial functions, so don’t take from my selections, ordering, headlines, etc. any indications of the interests or plans of my employer (if you do, you’ll undoubtedly be disappointed when they don’t play out):

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Now playing: Mac Powell, Steven Curtis Chapman, Brian Littrell & Mark Harris - By His Wounds

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Business Models: September 2007

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

As the Mobility Era matures, obviously a key question will be “how to make money?”. There are plenty of opinions on the best answer to this question. The below is very inclusive and I provide no editorial functions, so don’t take from my selections, ordering, headlines, etc. any indications of the interests or plans of my employer (if you do, you’ll undoubtedly be disappointed when they don’t play out):

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New Telco 2.0 Survey

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

The Telco 2.0 team is running a new survey on Future Broadband Business Models. Everyone who participates gets a free summary of results. I’m impressed with how these guys are thinking about the future, and they seem to be well connected with the leading thinkers in the industry, so I, for one, am looking forward to hearing what they learn.

Here’s how they describe the survey:

Our Telco 2.0 hypotheses on future business models have grabbed the attention of many people in the TMT sector over the last 6 months or so. We?ve been running workshops and events with all kinds of players around the world to work out what it could mean in practice and what needs to be done to prepare.

Now it?s time to test these hypotheses more thoroughly, using the theory of the ?wisdom of crowds? ? i.e. a mass online survey of practitioners from around the world.

It directly addresses the $1.6 trillion question: Where?s the money in fixed and mobile broadband in the future?

The survey will help identify how money might flow across broadband value chains in 5 and 10 years? time, and how this might differ by region, and by fixed and mobile networks. We are looking to provide greater clarity about:

How the fixed and mobile broadband industry could be structured in the future?

What services will consumers value (and pay for) most?

What will service providers and their partners/suppliers need to do to deliver and extract value from users?

In the survey we use the term ?Broadband Service Providers? (BSPs), by which we mean: any fixed or mobile operator offering high speed packet data services, including Internet access.

The survey mainly comprises multiple choice questions, with some optional open text boxes. You can leave your browser open and come back to it throughout the day if you wish.

There are eight short sections:

Introduction & Hypothesis

Your Areas of Expertise

Prospects for existing ?Broadband Service Provider? business model

Future of Voice

Future of Video

Future distribution models

Future business models

Winners and losers

The survey is supported by the GSMA, Broadband Stakeholder Group, Alcatel-Lucent, TelecomTV, and BT who are promoting this survey to their contacts in parallel to our direct efforts. A big thank you to them.

You can start the survey from here.

Background to the survey

Here?s a summary of the in-going hypothesis for those new to Telco 2.0:

Offering just voice, messaging, content, video entertainment and Internet access is not enough for sustainable growth in an IP-based world. In future there will be a wide range of new business and payment models which will assemble devices, applications, content and connectivity in new technical and economic ways. The wholesale markets will evolve greatly to support this.

Just as many distribution systems compete to deliver physical goods to consumers, the same will increasingly be true for online information goods.

A distribution system is the combination of a transport system (e.g. video-on-demand server, or a cellular radio network) as well as a payment system (e.g. IPTV conditional access and billing). Different systems tend to be good at delivering different types of content, be it valuable, time-critical, or bulky.

We believe there will be a fragmentation of the distribution systems for information goods over the next decade. This will have significant impact on business models for all Telco, Media and Technology players. The survey is intended to test these forecasts against the views of practitioners around the world.

You can read more about the thinking behind this research project here.

And, the link to the survey, one last time for those who are too busy to scroll up, is here.

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Business Models: August 2007

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

As the Mobility Era matures, obviously a key question will be “how to make money?”. There are plenty of opinions on the best answer to this question. The below is very inclusive and I provide no editorial functions, so don’t take from my selections, ordering, headlines, etc. any indications of the interests or plans of my employer (if you do, you’ll undoubtedly be disappointed when they don’t play out):

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Now playing: Elvis Costello - That’s How You Got Killed Before (Reprise) (Live)
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Business Models: July 2007

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

As the Mobility Era matures, obviously a key question will be “how to make money?”. There are plenty of opinions on the best answer to this question. The below is very inclusive and I provide no editorial functions, so don’t take from my selections, ordering, headlines, etc. any indications of the interests or plans of my employer (if you do, you’ll undoubtedly be disappointed when they don’t play out):