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Europe I 2013 (15)
Theme: The Transformation of Service Delivery – is everything going to the web
The communications sector has changed irreversibly. The very nature of global connectivity has been transformed by the massive growth of mobile and social networking. Dominant players are losing ground to powerful new players under the impact of cloud services and smart devices. Innovative services are attracting users and generating new revenue streams. But how are these services being delivered and who benefits from the revenue generated? What scope remains available for Telecoms with its standard service delivery? Is closer cooperation required between Web service giants and Telecom to ensure a sustainable future?
Europe II 2012 (14)
Theme: Communications in Travel
Time and movements characterise both Mobile Communications and the Travel Industry and this synergy should breed interesting services. Yet, better communications can substitute the need to travel, as happens in times of strikes, volcanic ash, storms etc… The Travel Industry should also explore what they can do for the traveller, and deliver their precious ‘content’ on smart mobile devices with advanced media or as reliable and timely short text. Airports and stations are becoming hubs of connectivity. The Automotive section of communications is going beyond GPS and has enormous potential. Battery life of mobile devices is much improved, but has still a way to go. Roaming facilities and unsubscribed local services have also room to grow, catering for those high spenders ‘road warriors’.
Europe I 2012 (17)
Theme: Mobilising the economy, monetizing the mobile sector
Mobile is the dominant form of telephony in much of the world. Mobile is also a major economic force both as an industrial sector in its own right and as a facilitator of businesses processes and markets in general. In developing economies where mobile is often the only widely available form of telecommunications, it has created whole new markets and, for the first time, makes possible a money-based economy with bank-like services for previously ‘unbanked’ populations. In more developed regions Smartphones have put the Internet into the hands, literally, of everyone and every company.
On-the-go information, business applications, entertainment and more are enormous businesses in their own right. These and other services drive rapidly growing network, handset/mobile device, platform provider, service provider, security and content sectors.
The sector is so large that mobile-driven employment, service and equipment provider mergers and acquisitions and the stock market performance of sector leaders all have a measurably significant impact upon the economy. Conversely, oscillations in local and national economies can directly impact the sector’s fortune at every level of its commercial ecosystem.
Europe II 2011 (15)
Theme: Network Capacity - meeting the challenge
Wired and wireless carriers alike are hard pressed to keep up with the rapid growth of digital traffic. Video growth is aggressively pushing network capacity limits - and this is not just for YouTube - non-Internet IP video traffic for high definition video, on-demand viewing, over-the-top content traffic and the like are also growing rapidly. Nevertheless, margins are dropping, since traffic is growing faster than revenues; this will have an impact upon the ability of many service providers to finance the needed network upgrades.
Although business usage is growing, it is growing more slowly than consumer usage. Business traffic margins will remain high, but the need for increasingly sophisticated support, network management and services will strain the resources of many carriers.
Wireless, especially mobile, network traffic is growing - doubling each year in some regions and both the wireless networks themselves, the backhaul networks and possibly fixed broadband access for femtocell offloading will be needed.
The growing popularity of cloud computing and M2M (machine to machine) applications will certainly further complicate this already complex situation.
Europe I 2011 (15)
Theme: Riding the mobile wave
Mobile is more than a technology; it is a social and economic phenomenon that shows no sign of slowing. Some 80 to 90 per cent of mobiles this year will ship with web browsers and the PC is no longer the primary means of Internet access. Billions who cannot afford a PC can now access the Internet via their mobile phones. Business use of mobile applications is growing strongly and this is transforming business processes and providing unprecedented facilities and economies. Nevertheless, consumers are the biggest – and swiftly growing drivers of demand. Few operators are prepared to handle the growing use of consumer generated data, of social networking of YouTube and other video services and many are hard-pressed to build out their networks fast enough to keep ahead of demand. This demand, for a wide variety of reasons, is likely to hasten the convergence of fixed and wireless networks – indeed, in many regions there seems to be little choice.
Then too, it is not only entertainment and networking that consumers are driving. Mobile money, for example, is just one of many applications that will forever change businesses of all sorts – mMoney will not only realign the financial sector, it will reshape business of all sizes in urban and rural regions alike.
Cloud computing will make it easier for users everywhere to handle applications and access data far beyond the capacity of a hand-held device. Security, handheld device technology, will be increasingly important.
Vendors, operators, service providers, content developers – the entire mobile sector and the entire ICT sector – will all have to face a massive wave of change.
Europe II 2010 (16)
Theme: Feet on the ground, while on the air and in the ‘cloud’
The number of ways to connect is growing and none faster than cloud computing. Cloud computing offers pay-as-you-go, provider managed, virtualised services using - more often than not - a fully distributed infrastructure architecture. It can be a public or private service. Companies look to cloud computing to reduce the capital and operating expense they have running their own dedicated data centres. Individuals will increasingly look to the cloud to provide a wide variety of sophisticated services on the thinnest client of all - the smartphone. This edition of Connect-World will explore the benefits and risks inherent in cloud computing; its theme will be Feet on the ground, while on the air and in the ‘cloud’.
View items...Europe I 2010 (14)
Theme: Wireless - growing on its own
Wireless in all its forms is driving the direction and planning of the communications sector, including the fixed sector. Wireless is re-focusing IT growth and increasingly determining IT platforms and delivery mechanisms.
Wireless is not the only game in town, but at times, it seems to be the only one that matters to both ICT and users sector executives. Exaggerated as some of the hype seems, wireless is - if not a new destructive technology - a destroyer of time-honoured business models and beliefs.
Europe II 2009 (16)
Theme: ICT and the EU Innovation Agenda
The EU has actively promoted innovation of all types through a series of programmes and conferences. The EU has committed over €2 billion to its plans for “Inventing the Future” by promoting research and development in ICT, including its use in such leading edge fields as ICT-bio, photonics, robotics and cognition. The far-reaching EU development programmes promise to open new markets, new sectors, and bring new players. This issue of Connect-World Europe will track the progress and the promise of these important EU initiatives.
The theme of this issue of Connect-World Europe II will be - ICT and the EU Innovation Agenda.
Europe I 2009 (17)
Theme: Mobile and wireless - much more than voice and entertainment
Wireless, both mobile and fixed, is rapidly growing in importance throughout the world. The boarders between mobile and fixed wireless are blurring with the advent of the femtocell and the use of mobile networks for fixed broadband access in regions not reached by fixed broadband infrastructure.
Either LTE or WiMAX, depending upon the region and the local operators, will soon bring true wireless broadband to many with no other access. The advent of inexpensive smartphones will stimulate demand from businesses and individuals alike for a wide variety of more sophisticated services and applications.
Internet services, Web 2.0 applications, location-based technologies, unified access (a single phone number for everything) and of course an increasing variety of high-level entertainment services - both time and place-shifted - are all going mobile.
Web-based social communities are going mobile as well.
Device size and capacity limitations, user-friendliness and quality of experience considerations, especially those associated with mobile communications, will stimulate the use of cloud computing - using the Internet itself for the services once available only on a computer - and should propel the growth of SaaS (software as a service) as well.
The almost unlimited functionality that cloud computing and SaaS bring will also accelerate the trend towards more versatile user equipment - especially touch screen and two-way camera phones.
The growth of wireless communications, especially wireless broadband, is driving fierce competition among operators, service providers, network equipment vendors, end-user equipment suppliers, software developers, applications developers and content providers.
Outsiders, such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others are entering the market with their own platforms and applications and changing the rules of the game.
Everyone is after a piece of the market, but the market has its limits, so new business models, some advertising-driven, are emerging.
This issue of Connect-World Europe will explore how the changes brought by this wireless revolution will affect the sector and the region’s businesses and citizens.
Europe II 2008 (15)
Theme: The evolving ‘Net - Rising to the challenge of rising useThe evolving ‘Net - Rising to the challenge of rising use
The growth of the net, often in unexpected ways, is challenging capacity, search resources, regulations, security, equipment manufacturers, marketers, e-businesses – indeed, the entire Internet ecosystem. Where do we go?
View items...Europe I 2008 (18)
Theme: From broadcast to broadband - it's show time
What the availability of new entertainment platforms means to regulators, lawyers, manufacturers, carriers, service providers and the consumer.
View items...Europe II 2007 (16)
Theme: The network business - strategies for tomorrow
When speaking of networks, conventional wisdom and traditional business models no longer work as they did. The lines are blurring in the fixed, mobile markets and even broadcasting markets. Wired networks now handle traffic once thought suitable only for wireless and wireless is substituting wired in a broad range of applications. Seamless handoffs between wired and wireless networks - indeed mergers, partnerships and consolidations bringing together networks and players of all sorts - further confuse the once prettily organised networking landscape. In addition, the very technologies and services that have built the success of the current market - such as those that have expanded the use of wireless and broadband to levels that were inconceivable not so long ago - may now undermine current business models by subsidising a commoditised future.
This issue will examine what these changes in technologies and the market mean for the sector. How can the residential and business consumer best be served? How should current strategies evolve to meet the changes? What does the future hold for network operators of all types?
The theme for this issue will be The network business - strategies for tomorrow.
The distinct niches built-up over the years within the information and communication technology sectors are melting together like an ice cream sundae - telcos compete with broadcasters that compete with cable companies that compete with power utilities that compete with ISPs that compete with everyone. Like sundaes, convergence comes in many flavours and has as many meanings as practitioners. With convergence, forget the ice cream - take your favourite means of communications, mix with your hardware of choice, top with applications software and a liberal dose of content and serve your own converged desert using an equally converged device.
Convergence is changing businesses, the players the equipment and the services we have become accustomed to; in their place new companies, technologies, equipment and services are arising. New problems are also arising. New multi-sector, multi-technology regulation will be needed, security issues assume new dimension, privacy may be threatened and the same consumers that will benefit from the changes will also need protection.
This issue of Connect-World Europe will examine changes wrought by the many forms of convergence and what they mean to businesses and end-users alike. We will also look at the regulatory situation and the strategic factors that the players, old and new, need take into account.
Europe I 2007 (19)
Theme: Thriving or surviving with convergence
Connect-World series of magazines is the leading magazine in the telecom and ICT industry that brings together the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap between the developed and developing world.
View items...Europe 2006 (13)
Theme: Personalised, specialised and ubiquitous: IP's future!
Connect-World series of magazines is the leading magazine in the telecom and ICT industry that brings together the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap between the developed and developing world
View items...Europe 2005 (17)
Theme: Emerging Technology, Emerging Hope (Europe)
Connect-World series of magazines is the leading magazine in the telecom and ICT industry that brings together the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap between the developed and developing world
View items...Europe 2004 (16)
Theme: Pervasive Connectivity as a Tool for Development (Europe)
Connect-World series of magazines is the leading magazine in the telecom and ICT industry that brings together the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap between the developed and developing world
View items...Europe 2003 (10)
Theme: Access Through Broadband (Europe)
Connect-World series of magazines is the leading magazine in the telecom and ICT industry that brings together the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap between the developed and developing world
View items...Europe II 2002 (11)
Theme: Telecommunications, Finding the way - Hard Decisions
Connect-World series of magazines is the leading magazine in the telecom and ICT industry that brings together the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap between the developed and developing world
View items...Europe I 2002 (15)
Theme: Moving Forward- Managing the Change
Connect-World series of magazines is the leading magazine in the telecom and ICT industry that brings together the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap the leading industry players, regulators, associations and governments, to discuss how technological integration and digital inclusion helps reduce the gap between the developed and developing world
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