Eric Owen

Group VP responsible for EMEA Telecoms and networking research at IDC

[Eric Owen @EricOwen2]

@cbarnard_IDC Hopefully not may airlines flying over New Mexico - could result in major Internet "crash"

[Eric Owen @EricOwen2]

@pbilderbeek dont throw it out - I'll have it - can pick it up next month when over

[Eric Owen @EricOwen2]

IoT is an intriguing evolving market - attended Vodafone M2M event last night - very enjoyable but they need to evolve beyond the M2M name

[Eric Owen @EricOwen2]

EE and Vodafone to provide mobile services on Southbound Chunnel - only two years after French operators provided service
Northbound

[Eric Owen @EricOwen2]

Lots of talk on IoT and IoE as we enter 2014. Way back in 1985 I worked on a remote elevator monitoring system - IoE?

[Eric Owen @EricOwen2]

TDC buys Huawei mobile infrastructure - and are happy with the security

[Eric Owen @EricOwen2]

China Mobile see profit drop due to OTT - guess China has quickly caught up with western mobile market realities

[Eric Owen @EricOwen2]

@IDC_EMEA @audioboo Sure let me know how it works in simple language

[Eric Owen @EricOwen2]

C-Scape: Telcos need to use Cloud solutions more internally - then easier to sell to enterprises

[Eric Owen @EricOwen2]

Cisco now starting to really help Telcos taking Cloud solutions to market

[Eric Owen @EricOwen2]

Cisco helping Telcos more with business justification for architecture upgrade

[Eric Owen @EricOwen2]

"Consumerisation of Video" in enterprise inevitable - Cisco ready for this

[Eric Owen @EricOwen2]

At Cisco C-Scape in San Diego - interesting day ahead!

[Eric Owen @EricOwen2]

Vodafone and CWW - where is the greatest benefit to Vodafone, Enterprise or wholesale?

[Eric Owen @EricOwen2]

Great event by IDC mobile analysts in Barca yesterday - wide range of capabilities on show

[Eric Owen @EricOwen2]

Orange Business Services expects UCaaS to represent 15%-20% of UC revenue pot by 2015

[Eric Owen @EricOwen2]

Orange Business Services got $1.5B from UCC last year - 60% outside France - French users shy on UCC!

[Eric Owen @EricOwen2]

The Avaya Flare demo we just had reminded me a lot about the digital PBX in 1980 - lots of collaborative features that few ended up using.

[Eric Owen @EricOwen2]

Avaya Flare - nice collaborative tool that was demoed to us - but how do we persuade Enterprises to take that next step towards UCC

[Eric Owen @EricOwen2]

FT-Orange to focus on being #1 or #2 in markets outside of France - will acquire to get to this if needed or dispose if its not attainable