TelecomTV: Is there telco life beyond connectivity? There has to be, says TM Forum

Does the continuing financial viability of telcos demand that they deviate from the knitting and ‘go beyond’, wading into high value services?

20 Oct 2020

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It’s a question that keeps coming up.. never quite gets resolved
Should telcos limit their ambitions to connectivity and leave complex services to application and content providers?
Or does the continuing financial viability of telcos demand that they deviate from the knitting and ‘go beyond’, wading into high value services?

Existential questions are never far from the lips of telecom industry executives, and the TM Forum's ongoing Digital Transformation World Series 2020 event, which tackles ‘6 themes across 6 weeks with 200+ speakers’, has tackled a few already, including the industry's ever-ripening chestnut -- should telcos just focus on providing the best possible connectivity and become bit pipe specialists? Or should they also seek to develop and offer innovative services that make good use of that connectivity as well?

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