[asterisk-biz] Futures of the telecoms business.

[Derrick Moennick]

Although I agree with Matthew that most of the people on the list not only
know exactly what Norman states but are a group of the innovators that
Norman suggests are out there.

I agree that the likes of Google are going to be one of the leaders of "the
digital experience" as will members of this Asterisk group. New disruptive
technologies are all ready starting to go main stream. Norman speaks about
the integration between voice and presence, has he not seen HUD Lite or HUD?

How about the fact the Dell has become a PBX manufacturer with the help of
Nortel and Fonality? I agree that there is a huge opportunity out there that
will create financial rewards, lets all thank Mark Spencer for his great
creation - Asterisk!

Norman/Tim, I enjoyed the podcast very much thank you for posting!

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[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Matthew
Rubenstein
Sent: January 27, 2008 8:03 AM
To: Asterisk -Biz
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Futures of the telecoms business.

	Lewis says telcos don't innovate and always accidentally caught up
with
outside innovation, that telcos act like they've got a "god given right"
to make profits just because they've invested money in networks. That IP
"telephony" is really beyond telephony into "the future of
communications", that the IP convergence is where new money will come
from as voice and SMS profits decline. That there's huge new
opportunities that telcos aren't able to even think about tapping, or
care about until others show how. That voice is about to change after
100 years, in combination with some other info, the huge oppportunity.

	That telcos have concentrated on merely building infrastructure, and
not on exploitation of how people use it. And that the future will
require building lots more network capacity.

	In short, nothing anyone on this list doesn't already know. If he's
a
"telecom visionary", no wonder the telcos (where he was R&D director for
Orange for 6 years) are in the shape he's in. His talk could have been
given 5 years ago. I guess it's valuable for marketdroids, telco execs
and all the rest still not noticing that the voice networks are now open
to innovation like the Internet was open with the Web in the 1990s. But
that just shows how far they all have to go, which I'd expect everyone
on this list already knows.


On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 12:24 +0000, Tim H. Panton wrote:
> I've just listened to a great podcast 
> 
>
http://www.ecommmedia.com/2008/downloads/audio/2008-01-17-norman-lewis-inter
view-part1-64.mp3
> Where Norman Lewis talks about the future of the telecoms business.
>  
> Well worth a listen if you want to know what might happen in the next few
years.
> 
> It's part of a series that lead up to ecommmedia conference in March. 
> http://www.ecommmedia.com/
> 
> I'm speaking too, but it is going to be hard to compete with Norman !
> 
> Tim.
> 
> 
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