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Alternative Trans-Border Telecoms Service Providers In Western Europe
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The coming months and years look like they will represent interesting times for consumers and businesses the world over. Established and emerging economies are suffering under the weight of inflation, the unpredictability of oil markets and continued concerns about the environment.
These circumstances offer both opportunities and challenges for international telecoms services providers. Those focused on the Western European and other mature markets must increasingly look to offer services that reach the growth economies of Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America.
With these circumstances in mind, the global networking powerhouses (AT&T, BT Global Services and Verizon Business) have been investing substantial sums to expand their reach - catching up and even overtaking the reach of Orange Business Services, which had previously boasted the world’s most extensive network.
A few aspirant ‘new’ players are also pushing forward, with the hope of joining the top table of global service providers - it comes as little surprise that they are from the Asia Pacific region, and China and India in particular.
Other asset-based service providers continue to carve out their niche positions - whether that be as an alternative to the biggest players (e.g. Global Crossing), or following their domestic customers’ international networking needs (e.g. Easynet), or positioned as a low-cost supplier (e.g. Cogent).
One group of players that must prove their business model is that of the VNOs (Virtual Network Operators), following the demise of Vanco as an independent player and its subsequent acquisition by Reliance Globalcom. This came about partly because the biggest service providers have the resources and, increasingly, the desire to take on management of their customers’ networks when required to do so.
Indeed, customers want their employees to be able to access corporate applications at any time, in any place and on a wide range of network devices, from PDAs to home office workstations. This need is helping to drive the convergence of networks, with boundaries between the LAN and the WAN, fixed and mobile networks, and applications and transport technologies blurring - giving rise to greater security risks and complexity which, in turn, are driving a growing portfolio of professional and managed services that is available to customers.
The global economic situation will make competition tougher in all business sectors, so anything that networking companies can offer to improve productivity, enhance customer relationships or deliver competitive advantage will still offer a business opportunity.
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