Investment: How will the DSP of tomorrow be funded?
By Chris Lewis , Guy Daniels
Dec 4, 2020
- Published on:
- Friday, 4th December, 2020
- Featuring:
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Tim Kelly, Lead ICT Policy Specialist, World Bank
Ulf Ewaldsson, Chief Network Officer, T-Mobile
Amy Wettenhall, Senior Vice President, Macquarie Group Limited
Greg Mesch, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, CityFibre
Chris Lewis, Managing Director, Lewis Insight
Graham Wilde, CEO and co-Founder, BWCS
Moderated by Guy Daniels, Director of Content, TelecomTV
Great Telco Debate: Panel and Motion
The Motion: Investors will drive a separation of the industry into ‘infraco’ and ‘servco’ models
The motion was DEFEATED at the event - watch the live Q&A session discussing the motion (now available on-demand)
The telecoms industry complains of high regulation and having their hands tied when it comes to investment and a reasonable return on it. Given the structural changes in the market, is it time for a fresh view on how we fund networks and the services we all consume? There is no doubt that funding is available from governments, commercial sources as well as funds traditionally interested in annuity revenue models akin to the utility sector. With players from the data centre side expanding into global services, tower companies offering additional services and the hyperscalers bringing their global bulk to the market, how do we fund the telecoms infrastructure of the future. Governments are extremely keen on the notions of 5G and fibre everywhere but who is going to fund it?
Speakers
Expert Witnesses:
Tim Kelly
Lead ICT Policy Specialist, World Bank
Ulf Ewaldsson
Chief Network Officer, T-Mobile
Amy Wettenhall
Senior Vice President, Macquarie Group Limited
Greg Mesch
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, CityFibre
Arguing For the Motion:
Chris Lewis
Managing Director, Lewis Insight
Arguing Against the Motion:
Graham Wilde
CEO and Co-Founder, BWCS
Moderator:
Guy Daniels
Director of Content, TelecomTV
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