Mark Newman, Chief Research Officer

2012 Research Agenda

At Informa Telecoms & Media we are never short of ideas for new topics and themes to research and analyze.

As analysts we spend our lives immersed in the telecoms and media industries, absorbing new information, speaking to key decision-makers and making connections between trends and developments across different countries and regions.

Producing a compelling research agenda is challenging because of the sheer breadth and diversity of the sectors that we cover. We started putting our ideas together for 2012 in the early summer and then condensing them into four key themes which, we believe, will drive this industry forward over the next 12 months:

• The transformed telco
• Reengineering the broadband business model
• Services, ecosystems and connected devices
• Seizing new revenue opportunities

The four themes have six mini themes, each of which will be explored in some detail. They capture the big questions that the industry is now asking itself. How relevant are operators in the new services ecosystem? Can operators protect (and grow!) profit margins by cost-cutting alone? Should TV companies partner with Internet firms? Is operator focus shifting from consumer to business and enterprise markets (we think it is)? And how quickly should operators roll out next generation networks?

Most important of all, our analysts’ opinons are always based on a solid foundation of market data and forecasts.

Find out more about our 2012 Intelligence Centre coverage:

• TV.
• Broadband & Internet.
• Mobile Content and Applications.
• Networks.
• Handsets and Devices.
• Mobile Operator.
• Enterprise Verticals.
• Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East and Africa.