March 2007
Profitable businesses at home have led Gulf telcos to expand nearby regions. But success abroad will require a whole new set of skills.
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February 2007
An estimate of the economic benefits of wireless activity must include not only wireless operators but also auxiliary players and end users.
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December 2006
As telecommunications carriers invest heavily in new IP
technologies, the path to profitability is uncertain—but the migration effort yields the best results when
carriers get the basics right.
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August 2005
Julio Linares explains the design of the company's big turnaround program. Third in a series of interviews with leading executives on change management.
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February 2005
Telecom companies play a key role in automating the sales and service processes of other sectors. Now they must automate their own.
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February 2005
Shaygan Kheradpir talks about where IT fits into convergence, innovation, and cost cutting.
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October 2004
Many people shopping for mobile-telephone services don’t want expensive features. Low-cost providers are stepping in to garner a sizable chunk of this growing market.
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August 2004
Regulation and technology have loosened the incumbents’ grip on the ‘last mile’ in telecommunications, but weakening these companies further could make them abandon their vital investments in infrastructure.
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May 2004
Original-design manufacturers in South Korea and Taiwan are key allies for global telecom companies that wish to compete in China.
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March 2004
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Nokia’s head of mobile phones and a former CFO, discusses strategic organization, performance measurement, and the value of financial transparency.
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February 2003
The United States still leads the pack in fixed-line services. But France and Germany have the advantage in mobile ones.
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February 2003
Subscription services promise huge revenues for Europe’s Internet service providers. But even the biggest will have to share resources.
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December 2002
The Baby Bells have survived the worst of the telecom downturn, but the growth of their call-management services is now faltering.
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December 2002
To survive in the European Union, telecom incumbents in Eastern Europe must streamline their operations on all levels.
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November 2002
A new technology could not only restart economic growth but also help connect everyone, everywhere to the Internet—at low cost.
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December 2001
Far from widening the income gap between rich and poor countries, digital information technology might some day close it.
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November 2001
Reed Hundt, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, explains why the future still looks good for the telecommunications industry.
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May 2001
Most of today's mobile portals are likely to fail. The winners will build the right partnerships and alliances.
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February 2001
Most of the money in broadband access will be made serving midsize and small businesses, and in this segment DSL wins hands down.
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February 2001
Wireless business services are changing the way companies work. The biggest slices of the pie will probably go to system integrators and to developers of platforms and applications.
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December 2000
McKinsey undertook detailed interviews with mobile-phone users in Asia. Half of all respondents—and even more of the high-value ones—said they would switch operators to get access to wireless data services.
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June 2000
Europe is now playing catch-up to the United States in electronic business, but the European game may well have a different outcome.
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June 2000
Surprise! Europe will almost certainly take the lead in mobile commerce.
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June 2000
Europe’s telecom companies are hard-pressed to grow fast enough to satisfy their shareholders. Scale and focus should be their mantra.
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November 1999
A McKinsey study shows that while older companies in the telecom industry have done well, new ones have done better: more than half the value created since the breakup of AT&T comes from companies not spawned by the Bell monopoly.
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August 1999
With the day of the $1 trillion telco at hand, regulatory supervision is needed to solve the problems created by the European industry’s accelerating wave of consolidation.
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November 1998
The bottleneck in local networks is opening up. That puts 90 percent of service revenues up for grabs. What consumers get will depend on where they are.
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May 1998
The EU’s five-year-old dream of a uniformly wired and regulated Europe is still just a gleam in Eurocrats’ eyes.
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November 1997
The datacom market is booming—and new entrants could grab two-thirds share. Next up: using the Internet for phone calls. “It’s the packets, stupid.”
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February 1995
Governments have no choice, but will they get it right? How not to wipe out 10 to 50 percent of value. Not ownership, but the trade-offs among availability, costs, and quality.
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