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November 15, 2005

Dummies Guide to Telecom Strategy

Step 1: Note BBC article on Growth concerns rattle Vodafone:
"Vodafone has been struggling to reverse a drop in Japanese user numbers. Fears over slower growth at Vodafone in the coming year have driven shares in the mobile phone giant sharply lower."

Step 2: Ask which product 90% of the revenue comes from.

Step 3: Ask how they've improved this product to distinguish it from the competition as a result of their tens of billions of network upgrade expenditure.

For the usual fee, I'll run a workshop for them with steps 4, 5 and 6 :)

Isn't it an amazing industry where the one product that hardly ever changes or improves is the one that pays the bills? We can make 8-megapixel camera phone, but we can't seem to get into market one with better audio quality or that can handle voicemails offline.

Posted by Martin Geddes at 4:40 PM
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