Upcoming event: Telco 2.0 in London, Nov 4-5
It's the lastest Telco 2.0 Brainstorm, which is looking at what the guys at STL Partners (a company I work with on various projects) call "Two-Sided Business Models", reinventing the incumbent operators' propositions to exploit open APIs to their networks and devices, and add value by becoming "smart pipes", or using other capabilities to help "upstream" industries reduce friction in their business models.
Areas that will be discussed will include billing & payment systems, advertising & business intelligence, content delivery networks & assorted other "wholesaleable" assets of telcos.
Some familiar names will be there, including James Enck (of EuroTelcoBlog) and Martin Geddes (Telepocalypse). There are CEOs, CTOs & similar level people from TeliaSonera, 3, HP, Carphone Warehouse, Phorm, BT, Microsoft, Habbo Hotel, GSMA, Amazon, T-Mobile etc.
I've been to several of these in the past, and they're always fascinating, and use this cool interactive WiFi laptop things to get instant feedback & comments from delegates.
Edit - I forgot to mention that there's a 10% discount for readers of this blog. Quote Disruptive Wireless & email: contact AT telco2.net for details
Dean Bubley is the Founder of Disruptive Analysis, an independent technology industry analyst and consulting firm, and the author of the Disruptive Wireless blog. An analyst with over 14 years’ experience, he specialises in wireless, networking, and telecoms fields. His present focus is on wireless technology, especially the evolution of mobile device architecture & software, fixed-mobile convergence, IMS, SIP, wVoIP, shifts in service provider value chains, enterprise mobility, in-building technologies, wireless broadband, and the integration of cellular and WLAN. He was formerly an equity analyst, covering communications and software stocks with Granville Baird, the UK arm of US-based investment bank Robert W. Baird. Mr Bubley has extensive experience in both published analytical research and bespoke consultancy, and speaks regularly at industry conferences and vendor events. He holds a BA in Physics from Keble College, Oxford University.