Telecommunications Predictions - TMT Trends 2007 - Part Two

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Fixed telecommunications operators often provide an essential ingredient – network infrastructure – that enables and delivers a growing range of convergent services. Yet when it comes to profiting from convergence, operators have too often found themselves on the outside, looking in⁶⁴.

Downloaded music, video calling and social networking are just a few on the growing list of applications that are network dependent, but which generate little, if any, marginal revenue for operators⁶⁵. This may be unsustainable in the long-run, particularly given ongoing and upcoming investments in next generation networks, costing tens of billions of dollars⁶⁶.