[MoMoBangalore] AirTel Bharti's Director of Technology -- Don Price, on Manage-services business-model and other things...

Tue Apr 8 16:18:46 IST 2008

Hi,
    It is indeed an interesting and thought provoking read, it sort of throws you off the chair. After reading this article I am grappling with some of these questions,

How would one define Airtel? 
What does Airtel really do? 
Do they own, only ideas? 
Can you define your customer realtionship in terms of KPIs and SLAs? I can't seem to get the right equipment even if I give the vendor a printout of the spec sheet from the manufacturer's website

Will Airtel become a media company, one that generates/markets content to consumers but buys bandwidth from the company that manages its pipes(not sure if the pipes belong to Airtel anymore)

-Ravi

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Subject: Re: [MoMoBangalore] AirTel Bharti's Director of Technology -- Don Price, on Manage-services business-model and other things...

Hi Banibrata,

    It is indeed a very good read.

What I found amusing though was this statement. /" "Give me managed 
services for 3G because I need the core competence.""/. This is quite 
funny because by definition you cannot buy competence, competencies are 
organizational learning built painstakingly by companies over a period 
of time. Even if you can packetize and sell it then it does not remain a 
source of advantage anymore.  Infact what is the advantage for Airtel is 
exactly the opposite, what John Hagel call a competency at the 
edge(http://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edge_perspectives/2007/09/convergence-or-.html). 
Core does not matter any more.

- Rajan

Banibrata Dutta wrote:
> Excellent read. AirTel Bharti's Director of Technology -- Don Price, 
> on what he thinks about Managed-services, the business-model, why it 
> works, why it's a win-win, and where/how this is going to get 
> extended, i.e. shared networks, shared infrastructure etc., and what 
> are their current focus areas, strategic areas.
> http://www.telecoms.com/itmgcontent/tcoms/features/articles/20017515416.html
>  
> Enjoy.
>  
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