Telco transformation: A do-or-die proposition

TELCO TRANSFORMATION: A DO-OR-DIE PROPOSITION
[SOURCE: TelephonyOnline, AUTHOR: Kermit Ross, Millennium Marketing.]
[Commentary] For telephone companies, the 21st century is all about competition. To compete, a telco needs fiber, not copper. It needs softswitches, not buildings full of idle digital switching equipment. It needs OLTs and DSLAMs, not DLCs. It needs to rewire subscribers’ houses for broadband, multimedia services, not POTS. It needs to rebuild itself on a new technology foundation: packets, not circuits. It needs to transform itself to a lean, mean, competitive business machine. The costs of this transformation will be enormous. The technical challenges are huge. The timeline is short: a decade, not a century. The risks of not doing it, or trying and failing, are overwhelming. It’s a do-or-die proposition!
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