2024 Year-End Review and TMT Predictions for 2025
In our year-end review, we look at 2024 through the lens of the Technology, Media, and Telecom sector, evaluate our past predictions, and forecast what lies ahead in 2025.
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Succeed with AI in the Workplace through Learning & Development
This Insight examines the transformative impact of AI and emerging technologies on the telecom industry, focusing on the importance of workforce upskilling to keep pace with rapid advancements. Discover key
Mastering Migration: Turning Complex Challenges into Seamless Success
A successful migration project involves so much more than just swapping one service or solution for another.
NaaS is Now: Why CSPs Should Embrace the New Model
The enterprise telecommunications landscape is experiencing a profound transformation, driven by rapid technological advancements, shifting business needs, and the growing demand for flexible and efficient networking solutions.
Leveraging Data in Network Deployment and Operation: Connected Britain Panel Preview
Join Vito Morawetz, Vice President at Cartesian, and a panel of industry experts for an engaging discussion on harnessing data to improve operations in telecom organisations.
Reflections and Future Horizons: The Journey of Six Sigma in Telco Complaint Management
This is the final instalment of our Six Sigma journey in Telco complaint management. Over the past six months, we've navigated through each part of the DMAIC methodology, exploring the
Post-Merger Integration: Connected Britain Panel Preview
Consolidation in the UK fibre broadband market has begun and is anticipated to grow in the next few years. At Connected Britain, an expert panel moderated by Cartesian VP Michael
Taming Technology Through Skills & Development: Connected Britain Panel Preview
Looking for insights on how to keep up with the rapidly changing technological landscape in the telecom industry? That will be the topic at one of the panels at the
Overcoming the UK’s Digital Divide: Connected Britain Panel Preview
Join Simon Evans, Principal at Cartesian, and a panel of telecom industry experts for an engaging discussion on overcoming the UK’s digital divide at Connected Britain.
Sustaining Excellence: The Control Phase in Telco Complaint Management
Welcome to the next installment of our Insight series on Six Sigma and how it can help with complaint management. Here we discuss the "Control" phase, the linchpin that holds
Driving Improvement: Solving Telco Complaints with Six Sigma
Welcome back to our journey of applying Six Sigma principles to revolutionize Telco complaint management. In this Insight we discuss the "Improve" phase.
Agile Methodology & How Consultants Can Use It
Agile has become a buzz word in many organizations over the last several years. After all, the lure of improving project success rates by 50% over competing methodologies is hard
Uncovering the Culprits with Six Sigma: Analyzing
Welcome back to our journey of applying Six Sigma principles to revolutionize Telco complaint management.
High-speed broadband options, availability, and competition increase in the U.S.
90% of U.S. households now have more than one broadband option with 100/20+ Mbps speeds available to them, a Cartesian analysis has found.
Navigating the Cybersecurity Landscape: Trends & Threats
More than ever, cybersecurity is paramount as our lives become increasingly intertwined with the online world. As businesses, too, continue to embrace the digital sphere, the importance of safeguarding sensitive
7 Ways Streaming Services Can Effectively Combat Digital Piracy
As the streaming industry continues to expand, it faces evolving threats from piracy and other revenue losses. As pirates constantly refine their methods, streaming services must take a proactive approach
Measuring Telco Complaints: Turning Data into Insights
Welcome back to exploring Six Sigma's impact on Telco complaint management. After defining the landscape of complaints in our first post about Six Sigma, we now shift to the pivotal
Making Migration Work
Migrations are too often relegated to the end of a transformation project; they are considered an expectation and just another necessary step, rather than being seen as core to the
Product Taxonomy and Product Catalog
New levels of complexity are being introduced into product catalogs to manage a greater variety of products and the combination propositions that must be quickly and efficiently brought to market.
Unlocking the Power of Six Sigma in Complaint Management
In the world of telecommunications, customer satisfaction is paramount. A displeased customer can quickly become a former customer.
Transforming Your Organization’s Service Design with Cartesian
In an increasingly digital landscape, the complexity of the interactions between people, systems, and information continues to grow, making it of the utmost importance to ensure those interactions are designed
Service Design – Establishing the Process Neural Network (Pt 2)
In Part 1 of this Insight, we discussed the what and why of Service Design, from its importance to the consequences of not having a strong system in place. Here
Service Design – Establishing the Process Neural Network
Ever wonder about the connection between Service Design and neural networks? Here in Part 1 of this Insight we cover the basics of Service Design and how it helps business
The UK Telecoms Security Act – What It Means for Telecom Operators
The Telecoms Security Act (TSA) is a significant piece of UK legislation with the potential to impact the telecommunications industry as much as the introduction of GDPR did, reshaping how
What to Know about Digital Governance Automation
In our Product Insights series, we look at some of the challenges and solutions for enabling digital transformation. In this article, we discuss how you can Digitize the Governance Process.
2023 Year-End Review and TMT Industry Predictions for 2024
In our year-end review, we look at 2023 through the lens of the Technology, Media, and Telecom sector, evaluate our past predictions, and forecast what lies ahead in 2024.
China’s 5G Story: Inspiring Rollout Journey and Ongoing Challenges
Despite concerns about the commercial viability of 5G, China Mobile has recently reported that an impressive 689 million customers have signed up for its 5G package. This remarkable figure reflects
Getting Pricing Right
The perfect storm of runaway inflation, tightening household spending and the post pandemic hangover of slow growth into recession has Telcos taking careful steps at pricing strategies to counter it.
2022 Year-End Review and Industry Predictions for 2023
In our year-end review, we look at 2022 through the lens of the telecoms, media, and technology industries, evaluate our past predictions, and forecast what lies ahead in 2023.
Getting to Grips with One Touch Switching
The new Gaining Provider Led switching process in the UK took a major step forward recently. With the publishing of the proposed retail processes and the technical interface to the
Addressing the USA Broadband Availability Gap: Expected Funding and Scenario Planning for States
Our recent study determines that BEAD will provide sufficient funding for the majority of states to close the digital divide. Other states will face constraints as the BEAD funding formula
2021 Year-End Review and Industry Predictions for 2022
In our year-end review, we look at 2021 through the lens of the telecoms, media, and technology industries, evaluate our past predictions, and forecast what lies ahead in 2022.
The Impact of COVID-19 on VPN Usage and Streaming Habits
While most industries faced financial difficulties due to COVID-19, Internet streaming platforms have seen record subscriber growth. However, demand for online video content has also led to greater VPN usage.
US Broadband Infrastructure: Costs to Close the Digital Divide
The amount of funding required to fund gigabit deployment to all unserved areas depends on how ‘unserved’ is defined.
US Broadband Infrastructure: Geographic Trends
Although significant availability gaps are an issue in many rural areas, adoption gaps occur in both rural and non-rural geographies.
The Growth of “New” Legacy: An Ongoing Threat to Transformation
In our Product Insights series, we look at some of the challenges and solutions for enabling digital transformation. Today, we focus on tackling one of the key issues – how
What Drives Churn in an FTTP World?
FTTP and gigabit cable will soon be the primary access options for most households in industrialized countries. What drives churn when speed is no longer a bottleneck and service incidents
Video Conferencing Applications: Bandwidth Benchmarking
How did the increase in video conferencing applications affect household internet bandwidth needs? We tested Zoom and Teams to find out.
US Broadband Infrastructure: The Adoption Gap
Is lack of adoption of fixed broadband a bigger problem than lack of availability of this service?
US Broadband Infrastructure: The Availability Gap
How much has gigabit speed availability increased over time, and how many US households still don’t have access to broadband internet?
Credential Sharing Mitigation Strategies
How can streaming video providers reduce credential sharing without negatively impacting customer experience?
Rolling out FTTP: The B2B Business Case for GPON
In this blog article, we look at the technology and market developments that are making GPON-based products suitable alternatives to Ethernet-based network designs for the enterprise market.
Product Agility and Innovation: Supporting B2B Product Transformation for CSPs
In this first of the Product Insights series, we’ve taken our learnings from engagements with some of the leading CSP brands across the globe to create new ways of tackling
Notre bilan de fin d’année 2020 et nos prédictions pour 2021
Dans notre lettre de fin d'année, nous examinons l’année 2020 dans le secteur des télécommunications, des médias et des technologies, évaluons nos prédictions passées et essayons d'en faire de nouvelles
2020 Year-End Review and Industry Predictions for 2021
In our year-end review, we look at 2020 through the lens of the telecoms, media, and technology industries, evaluate our past predictions, and attempt to make new ones for 2021.
Is It Too Late to End Video Streaming Credential Sharing?
Sharing account credentials for video streaming services has become the norm for many people today. How did password sharing become socially acceptable, what does this mean for video providers’ business
The Importance of Maintaining an Up-to-Date MDU Database
Multi-Dwelling Units (MDUs) represent valuable pockets of concentrated opportunity for ISPs. The most successful ISPs recognize this, and have accurate and up-to-date data on the locations, sizes, and characteristics of
Why Geo-Blocking Fails and What Service Providers Can Do About It
Content service providers have put in place measures to restrict access to content by geography. However, users are getting around these barriers to access content that is not available in
2019 Year-End Review and Industry Predictions for 2020
As we close out the decade, there’s much to reflect on. The telecoms, media, and technology (TMT) industries have driven substantial innovation that changed everything from the way businesses solve
Fighting against Digital Piracy in the Streaming Age
With competition intensifying in video streaming, content owners and providers need to be on top of their security measures more than ever before to protect against content piracy. In this
Video Watermarking and the Battle against Piracy
Digital video watermark technology is increasingly used by content owners and service providers to protect their content from illegitimate distribution. In this blog post, we discuss applications for watermark technology
Lessons from the Field: Rolling out FTTx
In this blog post, Jaume Fornos shares operator insights from his FTTx rollout panel discussion at Gigabit Access 2019 including fibre developments, learnings, and success factors.
8 Steps to Power Your Network Virtualization Journey
Based on findings from our network virtualization survey, here are eight recommendations that would help your SDN and NFV projects.
How Does Credential Sharing Impact Streaming Video Service Providers?
Streaming video subscription sharing can lead to unexpected business costs, legal issues, and lost revenue opportunities for service providers. In this article, we highlight the five main risks related to
Content Protection and the Hidden Extended Network of Streaming Video
In the ongoing battle against content piracy, streaming video account sharing adds another dimension to content protection efforts. In this article, we discuss the main types of credential sharing and
How Consumers Watch Streaming Video for Free
Sharing passwords for streaming video subscriptions isn’t a new issue, but how common is it? We recently conducted a survey to see how today’s consumers access streaming video content and
Using Data Science to Change Subscriber Strategies and Enhance Customer Experience
For many service providers, the way to prevent illegitimate account sharing and fraud is to employ highly restrictive access barriers. However, these tactics may prove impractical, worsen the customer experience,
How to Plan for Network Transformation
All communications infrastructure has a limited life span. Restructuring and migrating networks are essential to network operations. “Network transformation” – changes that include decommissioning and customer migration – is a
The Role of Process Mining in Digital Transformation: Part 2
The key distinction of Process Mining is its flexibility. In Part 2 of our two-part series, we discuss three specific use cases in digital transformation for telecom companies.
The Role of Process Mining in Digital Transformation: Part 1
Process Mining is an emerging process improvement technique that organizations are adopting to drive their digital transformation efforts. How can telecom companies use it and does it replace traditional Business
How Telecom Companies Can Select Network Analytics Use Cases
Having established the possibilities of using network data and artificial intelligence in Part 1 of our series on network analytics, in Part 2, we define a framework that telecom companies
Taming the Wild West of Wi-Fi: The Home Frontier
With consumers increasingly looking to outside support to solve their home connection issues, internet service providers are well-positioned to take the lead on Wi-Fi. The consumer home, however, is a
Unlocking the Power of Network Data through Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
Much of what consumers experience of artificial intelligence (AI) has been focused on front-end customer use cases. But AI has the potential for so much more. This first of a
3 Considerations to Drive Indirect Sales with Sales Analytics
Service providers invest substantial resources to attract new customer leads across a range of marketing channels. Yet too frequently, customers are lost for avoidable reasons. However, this can be mitigated
The Real Impact of Roam Like at Home on MVNOs
Nearly a year after the EU’s Roam Like at Home regulation took effect, operators share their experiences and views with Michael Dargue during a panel discussion at MVNOs World Congress
Why Is the Cost of FTTH Not Falling Faster? Five Things That Don’t Follow Moore’s Law
We look at reasons why the costs of building fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) remain high compared to other technology investments.
Streaming Video Credential Sharing: How Service Providers Can Identify and Stop Unwanted Password Sharing
Up until now, consumers have shared their account passwords to streaming video services with little or no impunity. That era may soon be over, with Pay TV and OTT markets
Win-Back Opportunity: 3 Steps for Success for the Enterprise Market
Enterprise, or business customer, churn can significantly impact a service provider’s business. Rather than trying to gain new customers to make up for this lost revenue, service providers can employ
CSP Strategies to Reduce Business Risk in Fiber Deployment
Fiber networks require huge upfront investment and have a payback period of many years. The business cases that support these investments always contain a degree of risk – most noticeably
Network Virtualization: Implications for Cost Accounting
As CSPs deploy network virtualization, cost accounting will become more difficult. This post looks at why accurate cost attribution is essential in the telecoms sector and explores NFV-specific accounting challenges.
Service Provider Data Quality in Business Connectivity Market Reviews
Network inventory and CRM systems should be an excellent source of information for regulatory authorities in a review of the business connectivity market. However, in practice, service provider data quality
Dealing with Transformation in a Virtualized World
Communication Service Providers (CSPs) are under pressure to embrace network virtualization. But, the technology is still in its relative infancy, and deployment has proven to be more difficult than expected.
Monitoring and Mitigating Early-Life Churn
Early-life churn often accounts for ten to fifteen percent of all customer losses – we look at the reasons why customers leave and how service providers can address the underlying
Product Development Strategy: Internal Process Improvement
How business self-reflection aids in aligning long-term strategic priorities with continual business development for product-driven businesses.
4 Ways Pay TV and SVOD Are Converging
Streaming video on demand and Pay TV players are looking across the fence and deploying strategies that mimic the other's traditional business and operational models. In this article, we consider
5G New Radio – Emerging Spectrum Bands
The next generation of wireless communications is on the horizon, and the telecoms world is waiting to see exactly at which frequencies 5G will be implemented. Despite some unknowns and
Take Sales Growth & ROI to the Next Level with Sales Analytics
Once you've harnessed your data and set up performance metrics, what can you do to take your analytics to the next level? In this article, we look at three examples
SD-WAN and the Need for a Targeted Sales Strategy
Since our last insight on SD-WAN strategy for telecom providers, many top-tier service providers have launched SD-WAN products and are positioning their offers in the marketplace to grow sales across
Why Over-the-Top Video Providers Aren’t Concerned with Churn – and Why They Should Be
Over-the-top (“OTT”) video providers today downplay the fact that their customers churn at far higher rates than traditional service providers. While OTT video has some important differences from traditional Pay-TV,
Retaining Customers through SDH Network Platform Transition
While carriers would prefer to deploy scarce resources in support of fast-growing Ethernet-based services, they find that tackling the challenge of SDH/SONET obsolescence and transitioning to new platforms is riddled
Customer Migration in Switch Decommissioning Projects
This article delves into approaches to TDM switch migration including the customer pre-migration activations in decommissioning projects.
Developing Network Cost Models
Cartesian develops fixed and mobile network cost models to support business cases and investment decisions. Regulatory agencies also call on us to develop and audit the models that underpin charge
Understanding the Quad-Play Business Model
Service providers continue to invest heavily to build quad-play bundles, many with high hopes for lower churn and better margins. The value of these bundles to customers and service providers
MVNE Strategies in a Crowded Market
The MVNE market is crowded. Many firms – from large-scale vendors and system integrators to specialist and niche players – have entered the market to serve the needs of MNOs