Summary

Telecom operators are in the grips of a fundamental battle to break out of the rut of simply providing connectivity, but they face fierce opposition in the form of technology interlopers who are actively targeting segments that telecoms operators might once have seen as their own. In domains like the cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), and software defined networks (SDN), operators need to establish their relevance and build a convincing proposition.

This report is a sector scorecard. Inside, we predict how each theme will evolve and who the leading and lagging companies are.

Our thematic scoring methodology is designed to identify tomorrow’s leaders rather than today’s incumbents, based on their competitive position in the most important themes impacting their industry.

To do this, we score the top 600 TMT companies against 60 investment themes, creating a database of 36,000 thematic scores - our thematic engine - to help us identify the strongest and weakest players in each sector over the next two years, once all relevant themes have been taken into account.

Scope

- This report is a sector scorecard, which identifies those companies most likely to succeed in a world filled with disruptive threats. Inside, we predict how each theme will evolve and who the leading and lagging companies are.
- It includes a theme map that shows the 60 biggest themes driving growth in the tech, media and telecom sectors.
- It explains how some of the largest listed players in the sector have performed over the last four years.
- It looks at major technology, macro-economic, and regulatory themes impacting telecoms operators.

Reasons to buy

- Companies who invest in the right themes become success stories; those who miss the big themes end up as failures.
- Corporate executives and investors who want to outperform their competitors need to understand all the themes that impact their sector.
- However, many of these themes are, by definition, outside of the core competencies of company boardrooms because they typically originate from external industries.
- Viewing the world’s data by themes makes it easier to make important decisions.
- The Telecom Operator Scorecard provides a top-down, comprehensive outlook for the key players in the telecom industry over the next two years, based on the key themes set to transform their market.

Companies Mentioned
Advanced Info Service
Altice
America Movil
AT&T
Bharti Airtel
BT
CenturyLink
China Mobile
China Telecom
China Unicom
Chunghwa Telecom
Comcast
Cox
Deutsche Telekom
Digi
GTT
Iliad
Ingenu
KDDI
Korea Telecom
KPN
Maxis
MTN Group
NTT
NTT DoCoMo
Orange
PLDT
Proximus
Rogers Comms
Saudi Telecom
Sigfox
SingTel
SK Telecom
Sky
Softbank
Sprint
Swisscom
Tata Communcations
Telecom Italia
Telefonica
Telenor
Telia
Telstra
Telus
T-Mobile USA
US Cellular
Veon
Verizon
Vodacom
Vodafone
Zayo