magazine - Connect-World

CONNECTIONS
Connections
Today access to digital content
is changing the way we work
and live. Social networks are
redefining the way we interact
not only with friends and family,
but the way we interact with
businesses of all sorts and the way
businesses communicate internally.
The resulting surge in digital
traffic is straining networks - both
fixed and wireless and pushing
wireless spectrum to the limits of 3G capacity.
The theme for this issue of Connect-World EMEA is Let the
Content speak for itself.
Fredric Morris,
Editor-in-Chief,
Connect-World
editor@connect-world.com
Migration to 4G will provide enough additional network
capacity for about ten years, but price competition is reducing
the revenues communications service providers (CSPs) need to
build extra capacity. CSP business models are changing; they are
seeking partnerships with content producers, equipment vendors
- indeed the entire universe of technology and content related
specialties - to help them build the next generation contentmoving
environment both for business and personal use.
Every aspect of the content chain - creation, production,
distribution models, networks, devices business models - is
highly likely to change. What will not change is the need to
please the consumer - from the person who just wants a good
show or the company that has a business to run. Empowering
the user - giving them access to the content they want ant to
what they can do - is the key to higher revenues throughout the
content chain.
Content where we want it, on whatever device we want is the
challenge. When content can reach connected cars and tablets
on train or someone walking down the street, when broadband
Internet access is available and affordable for all - then content
can choose where it goes.
Editor-in-Chief: Fredric J. Morris fredric.morris@connect-world.com
Publisher: David Nunes david.nunes@connect-world.com
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ISSN 1748-6998
2 • EMEA 2013