FIBRE TO THE HOME

As part of our work with the FTTH Council Europe, we have written some chapters for their new Business Guide.  The following chapter is a more detailed look at how to assess market opportunities. The title is Understanding the Market, Assessing the Opportunity For a New Fibre Business.  It also talks about other technologies and is relevant for xDSL, WiMAX, etc.  We hope you enjoy it. 

You can find our latest newsletter titled, 'The 9 Biggest Mistakes in FTTH' here.  There are plenty of mistakes that can be made in implementing an FTTH business but we think we've rounded up some of the worst offenders.

We have an interesting thought piece here about reducing the cost of FTTH deployments through government action.  We have done extensive work on the costs of national and city deployments and how to reduce the cost by choosing the right cities and areas to cover.   

We recently held a workshop on business strategy and business case developments at the FTTH Council event in Lisbon. You can download the slides here. 

MOBILE 

In 2008, Ventura Team worked with the GSMA on a market development strategy for an emerging category of devices and services – Embedded Mobile. The study identified the potential for significant new opportunities although there are considerable hurdles to overcome in the form of value chain and application fragmentation. The recommended market development strategy included a plan to move beyond traditional M2M segments and into new areas such as connected consumer electronics, health care, transport and smart utilities. A summary of the key findings and proposed GSMA strategy can be found here. 

This paper, developed with the Institute for Alternative Futures, considers possible operating scenarios along with the threats and opportunities for the health care and mobile industries. Our market analysis and MNO strategy recommendations featured as the opening presentation at the Telco 2.0 Americas event in December 2009.

In September 2009, the Korean Telecommunications Operators Association (KOTA) invited us to speak at a work shop on the embedded mobile market and opportunity for data MVNOs. This presentation introduces the embedded mobile market and explores MVNO-like opportunities for non-mobile companies.