The purpose of this CXTech Week 51 newsletter is to highlight, with commentary, some of the news stories in CXTech this week. What is CXTech? The C stands for Connectivity, Communications, Collaboration, Conversation, Customer; X for Experience because that’s what matters; and Tech because the focus is enablers. You can sign up here to receive the CXTech News and […]
The VPF has become a must-attend conference for anyone focused on service innovation in telecoms, with over 200 attendees this year, its certainly bucking the trend we’re seeing in conferences closing. This conference brings together a diverse mix of the telecom value chain: the IP Exchange and data center providers (Terremark, Telx, CRGWest); innovative applications […]
Reviewing the financial reports of many mobile operators shows a similar story in how their costs breakdown. There’s roughly an 80:20 split between operational (80%) and capital (20%) expenditure. Capital expenditures cover the amortized investment in the licenses and building the network infrastructure. The bulk of a mobile operator’s costs are operational expenditures, hence the […]