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		<title>Is there a business case for IPTV in Middle East? &#8211; Case Study.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IPTV has been one of the telecommunication hypes with higher trough of revenue expectations and business stimulation. However, IPTV is still a revenue innovator promise as very few countries reach the minimum level of penetration to defend the case. There are few out-performers in the telecom space where IPTV’s take-up reflected a substantial contributor to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consultantvalueadded.com&#038;blog=3987427&#038;post=1804&#038;subd=consultantvalueadded&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will &#8220;Data&#8221; blow up in the hands of the operators?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was having a nice chat with my colleagues about the data explosion trend taking place across most of the telecom operators in Europe, US and Asia, when we fell onto an interesting question that was: Can the huge data increase blow up and turn into a serious issue for telecom operators? How can an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consultantvalueadded.com&#038;blog=3987427&#038;post=1614&#038;subd=consultantvalueadded&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Improving EBITDA through a cost reduction program.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We recently concluded an interesting and challenging assignment: reducing costs in a mobile telecom operator to improve EBITDA levels in more than 5 percentage points in a 6 months period. As said, extremelly challenging. Why? After more than 6 months of crisis, the most obvious operational inefficiencies in telecom operators have already been wrung out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consultantvalueadded.com&#038;blog=3987427&#038;post=803&#038;subd=consultantvalueadded&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unleashing a price war in the fixed line front in Brazil?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We recently came from LatAm and we got significantly interested in the fixed line and broadband market in these countries. We are currently preparing a broadband and fixed-line LatAm markets assessment with a detailed service offering and promotions benchmark of leading mobile and triple-play operators and we wanted to highlight some insights we found interesting. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consultantvalueadded.com&#038;blog=3987427&#038;post=653&#038;subd=consultantvalueadded&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Size matters in telecom. 2008 Telecom EBITDA benchmark.</title>
		<link>http://consultantvalueadded.com/2009/01/13/size-matters-in-telecom-2008-telecom-ebitda-benchmark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Valdecantos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting the new year, I wanted to look back to my clients’ performance during 2008. As posted before, the financial markets took the telecom markets on a wild ride in the last quarter of 2008 and that clearly affected some of the operators’ performance for which we actually work. It is hard to avoid the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=consultantvalueadded.com&#038;blog=3987427&#038;post=475&#038;subd=consultantvalueadded&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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