5G
“ PARTNERSHIP WITH PUBLIC CLOUD AND OTHER GROWING WORK TECHNOLOGIES COULD PROVIDE ENORMOUS REVENUE FOR CSPS IN THE COMING YEARS ”
MARK NEWMAN TM FORUM
However , he wrote in a recent report , “ the time to act is short . The time to move is now .”
The COVID-19 crisis raised our collective dependence on our CSPs for everything from work to socialising . As a result , trust in the quality of service of operators is higher than it ’ s been in a while . Trust , as an intangible lever , can unlock significant tangible business value for CSPs , like the harvesting and monetisation of customer data . “ Due to post-COVID shifts , now more than ever , CSPs have opportunities to expand their offerings outside their core business ,” Venturini adds .
To begin capitalising on this new opportunity , operators are quickly going to begin transitioning ( just like pretty much every company in pretty much every market ) into technology-first organisations . The ones that can pull this off , and leverage their competitive infrastructural advantages , will be much better suited to dictate the terms of the necessary cooperation between operators and their competition - the hyperscale cloud providers and software-defined companies also looking to move into the edge . “ The enterprise segment offers the greatest opportunity of all for CSPs to redefine themselves — and their growth trajectory — by capitalising on what 5G and edge computing make possible ,” he adds .
58 July 2021