"From the theatrophone, to apps ... to APIs: the 2020 Telco innovation challenge" From the inception of Meucci's Teletroffono to the Theatrophon, first on-demand live events broadcasting service, Telecoms have always been a provider of life changing technologies. But since the rise of "Over The Top" services (Viber, WhatsApp, Skype,etc.), and the duopolistic Google and Apples' app distribution channels, the Telecom industry has been severely challenged. In this session, after reviewing the main disruptions, we will provide scenarios on how the Telco value chain will change in the next 5 years. And show how the app economy, Open Source and APIs are going to lead the change in this industry.

1. From the theatrophone, to apps … to
APIs: The 2020 Telco innovation
challenge
Luis Borges Quina
Co-Founder & CEO
Paris, 2nd Dec 2014 @QuinaLuis @apidaze

3. The Boring Prophet (« Life of Brian »)

6. 1870 - Antonio Meucci

7. Teatro Pergola (Florence)

8. Teletroffono (1870)

9. 1881 - Clément Ader

10. 1881 - Clément Ader

11. The Theatrophone Company

13. 1892 – Almon Strowger

14. From Manual to Automatic

15. 1972 – J.Draper (a.k.a. Captain Crunch)

16. Meetup

17. BlueBox
h"p://youtu.be/HFURM8O-­‐oYI

18. End of the Chapter 1

19. Innovation Learning
(Meucci)
NEVER GIVE UP

20. Innovation Learning
(Ader)
WORK FOR YOUR LIFE
DREAMS

21. Innovation Learning
(Strowger)
BUILD YOUR OWN TOOLS
TO SOLVE PROBLEMS

22. Innovation Learning
(Blue Box)
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF 3rd
PARTY INFRASTRUCTURES
(legally if possible J)

23. (Re)connecting the Dots

24. Differentiation needed !

26. Disrupting the Value Chain of Services
Yesterday
Today
Source: RRE Ventures

27. Communication APIs inside Apps

28. What about the 2020 Telco Innovation?

29. Does
Anyone
Believe
Telcos
will
be
able
to
innovate
?

31. Alan Quayle
Telecom consultant
Founder of the TADS - Telecom
Application Developer Summit
« People use their telco as they have no choice, but
are increasingly frustrated by their lack of customer
service compared to online service providers as
telcos continue to cut costs to maintain margin
growth in the face of flat / declining revenues. No
implosion of an industry, just a slow painful
migration thanks to dumbass regulation and an
industry's dumbass obsession with telco standards and
existing processes/systems which keeps costs
massively inflated and hence limits their ability to
experiment. Sigh! »

32. Chris Koehncke
VP Business Development &Yet
WebRTC Advocate
Writer: chriskranky.com
« Doing nothing remains a very viable strategy
for most worldwide telecom operators with a near
guaranteed rate of return and predictable
continued reasonable growth. Unfortunately, this
guarantee come at a price of decreasing market
relevancy, it will be difficult within a single
organization to be both predictable and
relevant. »

33. Dan Burnett
W3C Author
Official editor of the key WebRTC
specifications and co-author of
the longest-selling book on
WebRTC
« Watch both Net Neutrality and
Communication taxes. There is
increasing concern that government
regulation/control of the Internet
will increase dramatically within the
next decade. »

34. Dean Bubley
Telecom Market Analyst
@ Disruptive Analysis
« By 2020 we will start to see the end of
telcos' infrastructure monopoly, as other
participants enter the market & become
strategically important - municipalities, large
companies, WiFi providers, mesh networks and
maybe balloons and drones, as well as new forms
of whole provision such as MNC [mobile network
code] liberalisation.
In a nutshell: "Telecoms is far too important
to just leave it to the Telcos". »

35. Chad Hart
Dialogic, Senior Director Product
Marketing
Chief Editor webrtchacks.com
«The telecom services that will matter - the
ones that drive usage growth, investment, and
new jobs - will all look and act like the web &
mobile app ecosystem today. A small portion of
today's telecom landscape will be part of that.
The rest of the telecom landscape will continue
to clunk along, but be about as relevant is fax
is today - there as an inconvenient last
resort, only used when all other "modern"
options are not possible.»

36. Tsahi Levent-Levi
Amdocs, Senior Engineer
Chief Editor BlogGeek.me (Nr 1 WebRTC
blog)
« The same as they do today.
Making way too much money and still
complaining that others are eating their
lunch.»

37. APIs for Telecom Disruption
# Software defined Networks
# Automated Telecom Cloud
through APIs
# IoT requires API automation:
50 billion devices programmed by
5 million developers

38. SOFTWARE IS EATING THE
NETWORK !
… and APIs are eating
software J

39. Luis Borges Quina
Co-Founder & CEO
@QuinaLuis @apidaze
THANK YOU
&
SEE YOU NEXT YEAR