Future of Telcos - phone companies, next-generation telecommunications, winners and losers in post COVID global shakeout, mega-mergers, controlling the world's bandwidth and smartphone platforms, e-commerce and mobile payments - keynote speaker

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Telcos had a massive boost from the COVID pandemic.  I work with many of the world's largest telcos. They all benefitted hugely from instant shift towards virtual work, virtual social life, virtual entertainment and virtual leisure. Huge increase in spending on personal bandwidth, increased use of personal devices. Huge increase in corporate spending on enterprise wide virtual working tools, upgrades of video conferencing equipment, upgrades in bandwidth with increased dependence on video

If we ever realised our total dependence on high bandwidth, it was at the moment that the world plunged into lockdown. Internet access or speed was no longer the issue, rather continuous, uninterrupted high bandwidth to allow high quality video links. However, the telco industry faced fundamental issues before COVID, and these issues remain.

Over 90% of all web traffic is now video in many developed nations - COVID just accelerated a long trend.  It is already the case in the UK that BBC iPlayer, NetFlix and YouTube alone account for more than 60% of the nation’s web traffic. A single 2-hour video is equivalent to a hundred million emails, or days of voice calls. So forget charging for voice or anything else – costs are dwarfed by streaming video. Data on mobiles will increase 1000 fold in the next 5 years, on 50 billion mobile devices connected to 5G, running at 10gps or higher. That means an entire high-definition movie will download in less than 3 seconds.  So telcos will be forced to focus on new kinds of business, for example cloud services for larger companies.

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Future of Telcos, e-Wallets, payments and FinTech innovation. How Telcos will become Banks and why old Telco business models are broken - Telco Keynote

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Video of Telco keynote at Google premier global event - Digital Payments and Telcos

I often give keynotes at Telco conferences on why Telco old business models are broken: mobile banking and digital payments.  Why so many Telcos are entering the world of banks with e-Wallets and future of TelcoBanks. I have worked with many of the world's largest telcos and banks - so what of their future?

In theory, Telcos should be at the very heart of the digital revolution:  after all, they provide all the bandwidth we use to access the web - whether on smartphones or by traditional broadband at home or at work.  They also provide the handsets themselves.  And they have the ability to track people to within one or two metres, all the time, using signals from the mobile devices they have in their pockets. In addition, their networks handle all our online payments, our diary, our email and all our web searches.  Yes in many cases most of that data is encrypted, but you would be shocked to see the full extent of data that Telcos are usually able to pick up - the same is true of owners of websites you visit.

Yet the truth is that very few Telcos are really taking advantage of their potential - in particular, the data they have about your location.

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How (not) to do video calls: virtual teams management advice - Leadership - VIIDEO

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Video calls, virtual teams and virtual organisations. How to communicate effectively on video calls.  Keynote for 4,500 conference organisers in Las Vegas.

Customer + team passion, change management - leadership styles to change teams, structures, processes, organisations, businesses.

Take hold of your future: emotions. Lessons from the past in trends analysis, growth strategies, leadership training, motivational speaker.

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Future of Marketing, Broadcasting, Reaching Mobile Consumers

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Interview of Dr Patrick Dixon at MediaMind DED conference in London.  MediaMind handles around 40% of all online advertising - through servers which place multimedia, rich content on sites around the world.

Future of multichannel marketing, mobile media, broadcasting, TV advertising campaigns, brand development and social media.

Convergence and divergence - winners and losers in the online marketing world and key trends that will dominate media campaigns in future including consumers who are multitasking.

What will be the future of marketing? 

What are future marketing trends for 2030?

What will advertising look like in 2025?

What will be the future of digital marketing in 2035?

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Future of Satellites, Broadband, Communications and Smartphones

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Client event for SSL (Loral) in San Francisco on satellite industry trends in manufacturing, servicing, launch, space communications, mobile phone networks, broadband, mobile internet, video on demand, video streaming and the future of the internet.

Global online bandwidth forecasts and impact of high definition TV on satellite bandwidth demand.  Commercialisation of space.  New satellite technologies and capacity forecasts.  Future of geosynchronous satellites and low orbit satellites - in meeting demand in mature markets and emerging economies / Africa, Asia and Latin America.

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2020 Future seen from 2015: Futurist Mobile World - Futurist Keynote Speaker

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2015 scenario: Future by 2020 but RECORDED in 2008! communications, marketing, management, leadership, virtual teams and virtual organisations. Customer focus in product design, advertising, brand development, software and hardware. Mobile marketing and positional advertising trends.

Consumer use of personal organisers and mobile devices, mobile phones and other technology. Virtual switchboards, virtual meetings and distance learning. Future bandwidth, video streaming demand, convergence and divergence of technology. Future innovations in communication.

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10bn App downloads. Future mobile, smart phone industry

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/technology Future of mobile phones, smartphone downloads, mobile apps development, e-commerce, m-commerce. Mobile marketing and multichannel marketing. Future of phone manufacturers and phone industry.

Changes in customer behaviour, mobile web access, mobile searches, positional advertising and marketing.

Smartphones impact on future of banking, banks, insurance and financial services. Security issues on mobile phones. App development, mobile phone innovation, operating systems, symbian, windows mobile, android and iphone competition. ...

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Mobile devices - and laptops - trends - FUTURIST Q&A

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Questions to Patrick Dixon from 40,000 Twitter followers on future of mobile computing. Confusion in manufacturers and consumer choices.

Smartphones and web browsers still limited and always will be by screen size and data entry.

Expect convergence of features and divergence in device sizes - great variety and most people in management to own and use many devices of varying size and function.

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Mobile devices and laptops trends FUTURIST Q&A

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Questions to www.twitter.com on future of mobile computing. Divergence and convergence. Smartphones and web browsers still limited and always will be by screen size and data entry. Expect convergence of features and divergence in device sizes. Comment by Futurist Patrick Dixon

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10 billion App downloads future growth of smartphones Patrick Dixon

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Future of mobile phones, smartphone downloads, mobile apps development. Comment by Futurist conference keynote speaker Patrick Dixon.

Nokia v Apple, iphone, ipads, symbian, mobile windows, android and other operating systems. Consumer choices and communication lifestyle trends. How apps will be used in future and why manufacturers like mobile phone apps. Comment by keynote conference speaker Patrick Dixon

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Mobile devices - and laptops - trends - FUTURIST Q&A

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Questions to www.twitter.com/patrickdixon on future of mobile computing. Divergence and convergence. Smartphones and web browsers still limited and always will be by screen size and data entry. Expect convergence of features and divergence in device sizes. Comment by Futurist Patrick Dixon

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Future of Telcos - Mobile Phone Industry Keynote Speaker

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Belgacom ICT 2007 - "Future Telecom"

The impact of broadband - greatest techno jump since launch of personal computers? How broadband will change society at every level.

Press release at launch of BT Openworld 14 October 2000 in London - keynote speech.

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Internet voice phone - ARCHIVE 1997

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More than 500,000 people have already made telephone calls on the Internet, using microphones and loudspeakers installed as part of multimedia. Sound quality is variable and set-up can be hard. It is best for use on a pre-arranged basis.

Archive for historical interest Nov 1997

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Telephone Revolution and Networking - ARCHIVE 1997

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Telecoms: It is all accelerating - making the doubling of computer power every 18 months look like solid lumps of unchanging rock. Take a mobile phone working in 2000 at 9.6k per sec. In less than two years they will be offering up to 2,000k per sec. That's a mega-jump!

Archive from Nov 1997 - for historic interest.

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Old-style Videoconferencing is Dead - Video

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Videoconferencing is a practical solution for virtual board meetings and team discussions. In fact it's the only solution for distance co-operation, with shared documents on screen and other features.

Article written in 1999 (many issues still current in 2008).

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