Telecom Infrastructure Services
Solution Assessments

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Professional and managed services are now a critical business opportunity for Telecom Infrastructure vendors. Mobile and fixed service provider networks across the globe are facing inevitable technology convergence, generating demand for telecom infrastructure expertise stretching across multiple, complex technologies and processes. Telecom vendors are stepping in to enable these network transformation projects. At the same time, these vendors are struggling to differentiate their service offerings in the marketplace, while coping with challenges and opportunities from “co-opetition” with the IT services industry.

Current Analysis provides a structured approach to better understanding and responding to your competition. By providing real-time business intelligence on competitor strengths, weaknesses, services, and trends, we enable Competitive Response™ - the process of formulating both strategic and tactical plans for responding to the competitions every move.

Anatomy of a Solution Assessment

Delivered via our web-based platform CurrentCOMPETE, Current Analysis’ Telecom Infrastructure Services solution tracks and analyzes events, technologies, and companies shaping the value-added vendor services market in the telecom sector. Comprehensive coverage includes vendor Solution Assessments and analysis of key events in the marketplace, covering announcements of new services and strategies, mergers and partnerships, as well as a monthly round-up of new vendor contracts.

Benefits

• Understand competitors’ value-added service portfolios, including scale, strengths, weaknesses, market positioning, and market traction
• Leverage analysis of breaking news in the services market, including new service offerings, strategic partnerships, and mergers and acquisitions
• Track new services contracts awarded by operator customers, with assessments of the competitive impact of each new deal
• Learn about new strategies and business models that work, or don’t work, in the context of an infrastructure vendor, through in-depth advisory reports that examine issues that affect all competitors

Solution Elements

• Managed Services
  • Network consulting
  • Systems integration
  • Network optimization
• Professional Services
  • Network consulting
  • Managed network services
  • Hosted application
• Technical Services
  • Deployment
  • Maintenance
  • Support
  • Training

Key Selection Criteria

• Financial Position
• Geographic Footprint
• Services Heritage
• Services Resources
• Technology Heritage

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MARKET ASSESSMENT
Telecom Infrastructure Services

John Marcus
Senior Analyst, Telecom Infrastructure Services
December 18, 2006

The mega-mergers of Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia Siemens will have a near-term impact on the services market, creating two new players with scale and share comparable to market leader Ericsson’s. Rivals will seek to grab share before the dust settles.

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ADVISORY REPORT
Monthly Roundup: Infrastructure Services Contracts Announced in November 2006

John Marcus
Senior Analyst, Telecom Infrastructure Services
January 22, 2007

Contracts announced in November were mainly tied to network deployments, but many went far beyond installation and integration. Though driven initially by product sales, these deals also include outsourcing and business-related advisory services.

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TELEBRIEFING REPLAY AND PODCAST
Growing Competition in Telecom Infrastructure Services

John Marcus
Senior Analyst, Telecom Infrastructure Services
December 6, 2006

Telebriefing examines the drivers of demand in new vendor services for service provider customers, and also highlights how companies are making the transition from box supplier to trusted advisor, with an analysis of services selection criteria and key competitors’ relative market performance.

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