Tot up how much the world's small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) plan to spend on 5G services and telecom operators are looking at a $433 billion opportunity by 2025. Except they're not, because operators remain fixated on the megalodons of the business world that account for just 1% of all companies.
It's the latest joint research from Omdia, a sister company to Light Reading, and BearingPoint//Beyond, a digital platform solution provider, and it's another harsh verdict on telco strategy. Operators in the 2020s just cannot seem to catch a break. They're trapped in the purgatory of digital transformation, fetching gigabytes for US public clouds or flinging billions at a new technology that will enrich everyone else.