Fergie's Tech Blog

Why Silicon Valley has to break the Telco/Cable Comms Cartel

Tom Foremski:

Silicon Valley is teeming with established companies and startups whose services and products require communications services.

Some of the startups are called Web 2.0 companies, or social networking companies, social media companies etc. It doesn’t really matter what they are called, they all require a communications component to unlock the value they create.

This is also true for Silicon Valley’s largest companies such as Google and Cisco, they are all increasingly reliant on being able to quickly get to their end user.

Whether it is a text message, or email, or sharing a video clip, or a myriad other many-media forms of communications–they all have to go through one of the big telecommunications or cable companies.

Last mile = Gold Mile.

posted by Fergie @ 7/11/2007 05:42:00 PM