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Digital challenges and responses for telecoms carriers

It's been a while since I've posted. Work is the reason for this: there is lots of it! My assumption as to why this is is that many more organisations are feeling the impact of the broad spectrum disruption that's coming down the line from increasingly established Digital Economy businesses. Great for me, troubling for my clients...  The disruption is characterised by: Unequal competition between relatively local, focused, traditional organisations and global, digital-first conglomerates A rapid move to consumer-centricity from product-centricity as the predominant business model Uncertainty about how to achieve rapid change from a standing start or even where to begin with a programme of strategic change I'm coming to believe that mobile telecoms carriers are likely to be the next to suffer reimagination of their industry. Open infrastructure projects, network virtualisation and over-the-top services, combined with zealous regulators suggest that is now con