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.
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It looks tempting but has proven tough to exploit
A new report suggests there’s a pot of 5G gold to plunder in the SME market
Could a digital marketplace be a solution? Perhaps, but there are other factors too
For decades, telcos have regarded the small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) market, which comprises companies with between 10 and 249 employees, as a potential source of new revenues. But it has always been a tough nut to crack and CSPs have repeatedly failed to find a business engagement model that gives those small businesses what they need while also giving the telcos a profitable revenue stream.