Pipeline Publishing, Volume 6, Issue 4- Letter from the Editor

Pipeline Publishing, Volume 6, Issue 4

	This Month's Issue:
	Alternative Monetization

Letter from the Editor

“If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with.”

- Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

Most of you who are reading this letter are employed by Communications Service Providers. Therefore, I have little doubt that if I asked you about your vision for a perfect world, that in addition to a garage full or Ferraris and a live-in masseuse and a spouse with the looks of Brangelina and the brains of Stephen Hawking, you might also state that in that perfect world, CSPs would make big stacks of profit by simply providing services. Voice. Data. Video.

Few threats of external competition. No need to work outside of your core competencies. Just a profitable job doing exactly what you’re good at doing.

However, a quick look into my OWN garage tells me that we do not, indeed, live in that perfect world. In THIS world, traditional revenue lines are drying up, and CSPs must endeavor to innovate and remain profitable, or else be left in the dust as consumers turn to newer and sleeker technological innovations. As much as we’d all love to live in that world, we must love the world we’ve got.

In THIS world, traditional revenue lines are drying up, and CSPs must endeavor to innovate and remain profitable.

In this issue of Pipeline, we explore some of the ways that CSPs and OSS/BSS vendors, alike, can weather the storms and changes that have faced the industry and emerge victorious and profitable on the other side.

We’ll hear from industry experts from a wide variety of OSS and BSS players who have something to say about where CSPs are (or should be) heading. We’ll also hear from Ed Finegold about the shifts in social media and the role revenue plays in the workings of those entities and the CSPs that support them. We’ll also hear about the upcoming SUPERCOMM 2009, and explore the implications of smart grid tech for CSPs and OSS players.

Thank you for, once again, turning to Pipeline for the latest in OSS/BSS news and opinion.

Best,

Tim Young
Editor-in-Chief

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