Telecom TV – OTTs: if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em (up to your collaboration platform)
Western European operators should be able to reel in reasonable revenues by partnering with OTT providers, according to research company Northstream, which has just completed some work on the issue commissioned by AsiaInfo, the Chinese software and services company. It asserts that there’s around €2 billion out there waiting to be grasped if operators go about things the right way.
The ‘how to relate to OTTs’ issue (compete, collaborate or suppress) has been live in the telecoms market for about 10 years now without any apparent resolution in sight, so what’s changed?