Telcos and streamers are still at loggerheads over who pays for all the content, in an age-old debate that isn’t likely to resolve itself anytime soon.
When Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Höttges talks about “radical transformation”, it’s not the kind that we hear in South Africa sprouted by now-discredited political factions.
As he pointed out, just six companies are creating more than 60% of all of our content. These large businesses — whose giant data centres are called hyperscalers — are Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Netflix. They are the new kings of the content game. Instead, the diagram shows the market caps of Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Facebook versus the value of US telcos and then European telcos .
The GSMA, a telecoms industry body representing 750 mobile operators that organised MWC Barcelona, announced a new initiative called the Open Gateway framework. Currently, developers have to customise their software for different networks and platforms, which the GSMA hopes to resolve through this initiative so they will have uniform application programming interfaces to work on many operators’ networks.
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