A Telecommunications Dichotomy
Service or Product
Published: 12.08.2010

Across industry sectors such as health care, consulting or automotive, there is an awareness and an understanding of the difference between a product-oriented and a service-oriented business model. How is it, then, that in one of the most important sectors, in telecommunications, this is often not the case!
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Tabula rasa?
The iPad and Tablet PCs: significance and consequences for telco operators.
Published: 30.06.2010

This Detecon Opinion Paper compares Apple's iPad to other computers and derive consequences for telco operators.
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Digital Dividend
Making the broadband business successful
Published: 04.06.2010

Achieving the highly desired ubiquitous broadband coverage is firmly on the agendas of governments and their subordinate agencies, telecommunication organizations and unions, and of course operators. One of the most eagerly anticipated broadband measures is the allocation of the digital dividend spectrum and its subsequent usage in broadband wireless networks.
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Broadband Policy – the German example.
A competition game with NGA networks.
Published: 18.05.2010

The trend for growing bandwidth demand is unbroken. Wide use of multi-room HDTV, cloud computing, high-end gaming, and picture & video intensive social networks are driving data rates per household well beyond the physical limits of legacy copper access networks. But a modern broadband telecommunications infrastructure is particularly important for the competitiveness of knowledge-based economies.
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Participatory Journalism
Risks and Opportunities for newspaper companies to grow with user-generated content.
Published: 03.05.2010

This opinion paper analyzes the concept of participatory journalism, based on a study of German and US based news corporations Detecon has conducted. The research shows that participatory journalism is a powerful tool to attract users. More importantly, participatory journalism has the potential to generate real business value for traditional media houses, if care is taken regarding implementation.
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