The Telco Platform Economy

 Ahead of Connected Europe 2017, Total Telecom caught up with Ronan Kelly, CTO EMEA and APAC at ADTRAN. With the telecommunications industry facing huge challenges, Ronan explains how adopting the platform business model over the traditional pipeline approach could give telcos a new way to monetise the network.1. What are the biggest challenges facing the telco industry?We are in desperate need of a commercial model where service providers and network operators aren’t expected to jus