Lewis says telcos don't innovate and always accidentally caught up with outside innovation, that telcos act like they've got a "god given right" to make profits just because they've invested money in networks. That IP "telephony" is really beyond telephony into "the future of communications", that the IP convergence is where new money will come from as voice and SMS profits decline. That there's huge new opportunities that telcos aren't able to even think about tapping, or care about until others show how. That voice is about to change after 100 years, in combination with some other info, the huge oppportunity.
That telcos have concentrated on merely building infrastructure, and not on exploitation of how people use it. And that the future will require building lots more network capacity. In short, nothing anyone on this list doesn't already know. If he's a "telecom visionary", no wonder the telcos (where he was R&D director for Orange for 6 years) are in the shape he's in. His talk could have been given 5 years ago. I guess it's valuable for marketdroids, telco execs and all the rest still not noticing that the voice networks are now open to innovation like the Internet was open with the Web in the 1990s. But that just shows how far they all have to go, which I'd expect everyone on this list already knows. On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 12:24 +0000, Tim H. Panton wrote: > I've just listened to a great podcast > > http://www.ecommmedia.com/2008/downloads/audio/2008-01-17-norman-lewis-interview-part1-64.mp3 > Where Norman Lewis talks about the future of the telecoms business. > > Well worth a listen if you want to know what might happen in the next few > years. > > It's part of a series that lead up to ecommmedia conference in March. > http://www.ecommmedia.com/ > > I'm speaking too, but it is going to be hard to compete with Norman ! > > Tim. > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz -- (C) Matthew Rubenstein _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz