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The Paradoxes of Telecom Value Creation

BCG

Two paradoxes surround value creation in the telecommunications industry. But companies such as Netflix depend on broadband and mobile connectivity and, therefore, on operators that have the financial resources to expand their networks. Second, the world is going mobile, but mobile-only operators are struggling to create value. (And

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NSA tool collects "Nearly Everything You Do On the Internet"

MishTalk

China Financial Markets. Financial Sense. In a significant victory for law enforcement, a federal appeals court on Tuesday said that government authorities could extract historical location data directly from telecommunications carriers without a search warrant. Top Financial Blog Citations. December 2008 (85).

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There’s a Gender Gap in Internet Usage. Closing It Would Open Up Opportunities for Everyone

Harvard Business

The International Telecommunications Union reports that the proportion of women using the internet is 12% lower than the proportion of men; this gender gap widens to 32.9% For example, the Connected Women report from the GSMA shows that women are less likely to be financially independent when the digital gender gap is wide.

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List: Global Strategy Firms 2013

Tom Spencer

In 2008, Booz separated its operations from the U.S. CVA is a global strategy boutique which has experience across a broad range of industries including Telecom Media & Technology, Financial Services, Private Equity, and Mining Metals & Materials. Booz & Company. Website: booz.com. Founded in Chicago in 1914 by Edwin G.

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2014 List of Strategy Consulting Firms in Sydney

Tom Spencer

CVA is a global strategy boutique which has experience across a broad range of industries including Telecom Media & Technology, Financial Services, Private Equity, and Mining Metals & Materials. Additional areas of expertise include new financial services channels, technologies and markets, retail financial services, and e-business.

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Clash of Generations - Boomers vs. Millennials: Attitude Change Will Disrupt Wall Street and Corporate America

MishTalk

Silicon Valley CEOs, many of whom are drawn from the ranks of Generation X, look with disdain on the good old boys network of their Wall Street counterparts and are eager to leverage the technologies they have developed to gain advantage in the marketplace over the older, more established titans of the media and telecommunication sectors.

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China's Forex Reserves Drop Most On Record: What Does It Mean? Inflation Tsunami?

MishTalk

percent in July, according to a Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications statement on October 6, 2015. I did not understand in 2004, 2008, 2012, 2014, and I still don't know now. The proportion of transactions denominated in yuan climbed to a record 2.79 percent in August, from 2.34