The general manager of its Japan operations should have "solid relationships with consumer electronics distribution channels and/or with telco operators [their business-to-consumer activity]." In Europe, Handspring hopes to sell its device through large retailers like Dixons in the U.K. and FNAC in France, according to the posting for its European general manager.
"We hold a lot of the same kind of industrywide meetings as the Big 5 telco operators," said one lobbyist from the telecommunications industry, who wanted to be anonymous to avoid inviting similar scrutiny.
We have partnerships with leading telco operators such as Orange and we are looking for partners interested in diagnostic/driver behaviour and car utilisation data as potential channels to SMEs.
Future network architectures will be completely reshaped by the emerging Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm, and telco operators will likely deploy flexible infrastructures based on the cloud, offering programmable connectivity services and computing/storage facilities in the form of Virtual Data Centers (VDCs).
In short, data is the new currency for telco operators.
Despite the new competitive landscape, telco operators are facing a massive opportunity for growth.
A host of newer telco operators also were blindsided by the sudden precipitous decline in their business.
You can see it in Comcast s stock price, which has been steadily declining ever since executives acknowledged that telco operators are taking away customers.
Now, telco operators must mine real-time data and instantly analyze it, translating raw data into instant insight that puts them ahead of the competition.
To survive in this new world of extreme analytics, telco operators must embrace a new class of technology focused on accelerated parallel compute with an NVIDIA NASDAQ NVDA GPUGPU database.
