{"id":9370,"date":"2013-03-01T21:50:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T03:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9370"},"modified":"2013-03-01T21:50:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T03:50:11","slug":"life-for-european-telecom-carriers-will-not-get-any-easier-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9370","title":{"rendered":"Life For European Telecom Carriers Will Not Get Any Easier In 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>The European carrier market will continue to suffer.<\/strong>\u00a0Once upon a time, Europe led in telecom innovation and usage via a couple of large carriers and network equipment suppliers. <strong>More than 100 carriers in the 27 European countries are after 650 million consumers<\/strong> \u2014 less than the installed base of China Mobile alone. Competition will be fierce, especially in France with Free\/Iliad&#8217;s aggressive disruption. Expect regulation, acquisitions, and cost-sharing to be high on the agenda, but the No. 1 challenge is to invent a new business model via more strategic partnerships with OTT players.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forrester.com\/dan_bieler\/13-01-25-life_for_european_telecom_carriers_will_not_get_any_easier_in_2013?goback=%2Eanp_4880359_1362139415762_1%2Egmr_4880359%2Eanb_4880359_*2_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1\">Life For European Telecom Carriers Will Not Get Any Easier In 2013 | Forrester Blogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European carrier market will continue to suffer.\u00a0Once upon a time, Europe led in telecom innovation and usage via a couple of large carriers and network equipment suppliers. More than 100 carriers in the 27 European countries are after 650 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9370\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[598,940],"class_list":["post-9370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-european","tag-telecom-operators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}