Telcos set to dominate the IT services scene, says IDC

If you sell applications or services, you cannot afford to ignore telcos — they will become the IT channel of the decade, displacing typical IT hardware and software vendors.

So said Adrian Ho, program manager for telecom and managed services at research firm IDC. He was speaking last Friday, 16th April, at the annual Asia Pacific IDC Directions conference held in Singapore and around the region.

The main reasons? Telcos own the networks in which IT operates, and there is a trend of progression towards cloud services. Add the two together, and telecom carriers are well positioned to “seize the opportunity” in this service oriented era and become the “pre-eminent” IT channel, said Adrian.

“Networks have become intrinsic to a lot of large scale enterprise initiatives,” he said. And telcos own the infrastructure — the large bandwidth and data centres — that make the cloud paradigm possible.

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