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What are the emerging B2B hotspots for telcos?

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Yet no killer B2B application has emerged to give CSPs immediate and sustained business growth. As such, many of the technologies that CSPs are now deploying for 5G era operations are part of the effort to broaden reach or are being packaged up and sold as a service to boost the IT-centric capabilities of B2B offerings.

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Making self-service Network slice-as-a-Service a commercial reality

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This addresses three key issues for communications service providers (CSPs): Creating new revenue streams and return on 5G investment; improving B2B clients’ experience; and tackling high operational costs. Application Framework (TAM). The Catalyst, 5G slicing as a service for B2B2X over convergent cloud central offices.

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The impact of 5G and cloud on telco capex and opex

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Passive infrastructure sharing, as well as active RAN sharing – both concepts familiar in the LTE era – are still applicable to 5G. On average, the percentage of total revenues that B2B services (connectivity and beyond) represent, reached 30% in 2020 for many major operators. A good example of this is in the B2B space.

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How NaaS deployment is shaping up

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Early examples focus on SD-WAN. Virtually all Tier 1 CSPs with a sizeable enterprise services business (or serious aspirations to build one) have NaaS-supported B2B offerings; they have to in order to compete. Verizon does not manage the customer’s applications. TELUS eyes nearly $1 billion in new revenue.

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How new business models are shaping CSPs' service operations

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annually over the last three years and that B2B revenues were flat before the Covid-19 pandemic started in 2020. The pandemic hit many CSPs’ core B2B communications businesses as the global office workforce started working from home using existing consumer broadband connections and some businesses failed.

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