From the theatrophone, to apps … to APIs: The 2020 Telco innovation

challenge

Luis Borges Quina

Co-Founder & CEO

@QuinaLuis @apidaze Paris, 2nd Dec 2014

The Boring Prophet (« Life of Brian »)

1870 - Antonio Meucci

Teatro Pergola (Florence)

Teletroffono (1870)

1881 - Clément Ader

1881 - Clément Ader

The Theatrophone Company

1892 – Almon Strowger

From Manual to Automatic

1972 – J.Draper (a.k.a. Captain Crunch)

Meetup

BlueBox

h"p://youtu.be/HFURM8O-­‐oYI  

End of the Chapter 1

Innovation Learning (Meucci)

NEVER GIVE UP

Innovation Learning (Ader)

WORK FOR YOUR LIFE DREAMS

Innovation Learning (Strowger)

BUILD YOUR OWN TOOLS TO SOLVE PROBLEMS

Innovation Learning (Blue Box)

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF 3rd PARTY INFRASTRUCTURES

(legally if possible J)

(Re)connecting the Dots

Differentiation needed !

Disrupting the Value Chain of Services

Yesterday

Today

Source: RRE Ventures

Communication APIs inside Apps

What about the 2020 Telco Innovation?

Does  Anyone  Believe  Telcos  will  be  able  to  innovate  ?    

Alan Quayle

Telecom consultant

Founder of the TADS - Telecom Application Developer Summit

« People use their telco as they have no choice, but are increasingly frustrated by their lack of customer service compared to online service providers as telcos continue to cut costs to maintain margin growth in the face of flat / declining revenues.  No implosion of an industry, just a slow painful migration thanks to dumbass regulation and an industry's dumbass obsession with telco standards and existing processes/systems which keeps costs massively inflated and hence limits their ability to experiment. Sigh! »

Chris Koehncke

VP Business Development &Yet

WebRTC Advocate

Writer: chriskranky.com

« Doing nothing remains a very viable strategy for most worldwide telecom operators with a near guaranteed rate of return and predictable continued reasonable growth. Unfortunately, this guarantee come at a price of decreasing market relevancy, it will be difficult within a single organization to be both predictable and relevant. »

Dan Burnett

W3C Author

Official editor of the key WebRTC specifications and co-author of the longest-selling book on WebRTC

« Watch both Net Neutrality and Communication taxes.  There is increasing concern that government regulation/control of the Internet will increase dramatically within the next decade. »

Dean Bubley

Telecom Market Analyst

@ Disruptive Analysis

« By 2020 we will start to see the end of telcos' infrastructure monopoly, as other participants enter the market & become strategically important - municipalities, large companies, WiFi providers, mesh networks and maybe balloons and drones, as well as new forms of whole provision such as MNC [mobile network code] liberalisation. In a nutshell: "Telecoms is far too important to just leave it to the Telcos". »

Chad Hart

Dialogic, Senior Director Product Marketing

Chief Editor webrtchacks.com

«The telecom services that will matter - the ones that drive usage growth, investment, and new jobs - will all look and act like the web & mobile app ecosystem today.  A small portion of today's telecom landscape will be part of that. The rest of the telecom landscape will continue to clunk along, but be about as relevant is fax is today - there as an inconvenient last resort, only used when all other "modern" options are not possible.»

Tsahi Levent-Levi

Amdocs, Senior Engineer

Chief Editor BlogGeek.me (Nr 1 WebRTC blog)

« The same as they do today. Making way too much money and still complaining that others are eating their lunch.»

# Software defined Networks

# Automated Telecom Cloud through APIs

# IoT requires API automation: 50 billion devices programmed by 5 million developers

APIs for Telecom Disruption

SOFTWARE IS EATING THE NETWORK !

… and APIs are eating software J

           

THANK YOU

&

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR

Luis Borges Quina

Co-Founder & CEO

@QuinaLuis @apidaze