Feedback from brainstorm participants, including representatives of Telecom Italia, BSkyB, the World Economic Forum, Vodafone and Orange France Telecom.

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TelecomTV's Martyn Warwick speaks to Simon Torrance, CEO of Telco 2.0 and STL Partners, about their upcoming events and involvement in the World Economic Forum.

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Devices: Source of New Revenue

*  What types of device are best-suited to the telcos owning "control points"? How can openness and control co-exist? In particular, can operators ever manage to monetise the PC, beyond basic connectivity?
    * How should operators prioritise smartphone platforms - Android and LiMo offer more potential for operator customisation and control, but Apple and BlackBerry have unique capabilities from their proprietary infrastructure. Can operators regain the high ground?
    * The Kindle experience and potential for e-readers. Where's the business model? Will this model transfer to other forms of entertainment content, perhaps via Apple's new iPad?
    * What device trends will impact most on network economics? Can operators handle Internet TVs consuming gigabits of data per hour?
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Defining New Enterprise Market Opportunities

    *  Defining and sizing the market including identification of major growth areas that will be covered in later sessions
    * Identification of revenue streams from Voice as an enabler of other services
    * Identifying telco opportunities in vertical and enterprise ecosystems.
    * The identification of some of the key assets and functions that are common to multiple upstream customers

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9th Executive Brainstorm, 28th-29th April, 2010

Living with Google: Where to Cooperate; Where to Compete

    * What different cooperation and competition strategies have already been employed by telcos in their dealings with Google?
    * When and where telcos can compete with Google and what assets and capabilities they need to do this?
    * How can telcos avoid losing the value of another core asset as they did with location?
    * Are different strategies necessary for Tier 1 and Tier 2/3 telcos?
    * Can telcos expect the other major Internet players – Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Skype etc – to develop in a similar way to Google?
    * Includes new research on Google and telcos from Telco 2.0

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Yes we can! Rapid Implementation of ‘Telco 2.0’ Business Models
How to move from 1.0 to 2.0 without disrupting legacy systems and processes

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TelecomTV's Ian Scales speaks to Amdoc's Stephen Krajewski, Director of Product Marketing. They talk about service delivery platforms and the future for service providers with over the top players?

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TelecomTV's Ian Scales speaks with Marcus Lannerbro, Head of Marketing, Multimedia Business Unit at Ericsson. They talk about some of the themes of the Telco 2.0 9th Executive Brainstorm including the 2-sided business model, net neutrality and the value chain change.

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At the Telco 2.0 9th Executive Brainstorm in London, Ian Scales talks with Eddie Chan of NSN Consulting. They discuss data demands, usage and the future.

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TelecomTV's Ian Scales speaks with Simon Torrance at the 9th Executive Brainstorm, chatting about the major themes and points of discussion from the show.

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Executive Interview: Simon Torrance, CEO STL Partners / Telco 2.0

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Pilot 2.0: Fast-tracking Telco 2.0 Services using Legacy Systems

    * How to deploy new lightweight BSS platforms to pilot Telco 2.0 'Use Cases', fast at low cost
 

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Subscriber data, properly managed, is key for operators who want to develop personalised services.  It's also a key Telco 2.0 revenue stream. According to  Paul Magelli, Head of Subscriber Data Management at Nokia Siemens Networks, the problem of how to aggregate customer data for upstream developers and service providers will be solved with the development of intermediary information exchanges.

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