The next generation ecosystem goes beyond traditional players—it also includes innovators in media, entertainment, consumer electronics and other sectors. The ng Connect Program brings together all these kinds of companies to overcome the technical and business barriers preventing service providers from mass deployment of the services their customers want.
Here’s how the ng Connect Program will benefit service providers:
- Drive top line revenue: By increasing use of wireless data services, especially video
- Increase competitive advantage: By monetizing 3rd parties and entering the value chain of Over-the-Top (OTT) application providers
- Lower OPEX: Through integrated management of all the connected user’s devices and applications
- Reduce churn: By meeting all the customers’ needs for communications and entertainment services
- Leverage assets across networks: With common enablers, federated control and interop
- Create new business models: Enabling a shift from terminal/service subscriptions to user subscriptions, for any terminals and any services, and generating new incremental revenues (i.e., advertising, wholesale, CDN, revenue-shared hosting)
- Accelerate time to market: By streamlining development and deployment of complex end-to-end solutions from multiple suppliers
- Speed resolution of standards and regulatory issues: The consortium/ecosystem approach encourages cooperation and a united voice
