Can a think tank tackle telecoms innovation deficit?

The Telecom Ecosystem Group (TEG) will publish shortly its final paper that concludes two years of industry discussion on ways to spur innovation in telecommunications.

The paper, entitled Addressing the Telecom Innovation Deficit, says telcos have lost much of their influence in shaping the technologies on which they depend.

Source: Telecom Ecosystem Group

“They have become ageing monocultures; disruptive innovators have left the industry and innovation is outsourced,” says the report.

The TEG has held three colloquiums and numerous discussion groups soliciting views from experienced individuals across the industry during the two years.

The latest paper names eight authors but many more contributed to the document and its recommendations.

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Rebooting telecom innovation

Last summer several individuals, including representatives from Telefonica and Deutsche Telekom, published a White Paper on the need to boost innovation in the telecom industry.

Don Clarke

Six months and many conversations later, the group published its second paper, this time focussing on the communications service providers (CSPs), vendors and the investor community.

The paper, entitled Developing a Code of Conduct Framework for the Telecom Ecosystem, highlights four areas to spur innovation: Funding, Innovation Processes, Competition and Procurement.

The code-of-conduct paper offers guidelines as to how CSPs can work with vendors, especially small and medium-sized ones that lack the resources of the larger established vendors.

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