2017 Telco Innovation Roadmaps from TC3 Summit

SAVE THE DATE FOR TC3 2017: Nov 1-2, 2017 ©Telecom Council 2016
A Collection of Global Telco Innovation Needs
Presented at 2016 TC3 Summit
2017 GLOBAL TELCO
PARTNERSHIP PRIORITIES
www.telecomcouncil.com/TC3
SAVE THE DATE: TC3 2017 — NOV 1-2, Silicon Valley, CA

Innovation Scouts from global telcos gather in Silicon
Valley every fall for TC3 Summit. These dealmakers come to:
• discover innovation
• highlight their innovation needs
• explain how they can be a great partner
Also, TC3 offers attendees multiple tools for pre-arranged, sit-
down, one-on-one meetings with carriers and Tier 1 vendors.
TC3Summit:WhereTelecomMeetsInnovation
2016 Highlights:
 500 fixed and wireless telecom innovation executives from 20 countries (2016
attendees)
 1111meetings & introductions facilitated by TC3 Matchmaker software
 60 global operators participate, with 25+ presenting innovation
 50+ carrier-ready startups demonstrated
 20 Interactive topics including XaaS, IoT, NFV, OTT, analytics & more

The TC3 Summit is“Upside Down”
• The normal order of business, everywhere, year-round,
is that small companies pitch down the value chain into
bigger companies who have a larger purse. The Telecom
Council also does this year-round in Silicon Valley.
• But the world is changing. Carriers need innovation as
much as startups need sales. And they can’t invent it all
themselves, so they should also court the innovators,
and at least once a year, do so clearly and directly.
• So, TC3 flips the usual pitch-down, and asks the world’s
biggest, and most forward-thinking network operators to
pitch-up to the entrepreneurs and vendors of the world,
and say“This is why you should work with us in 2017.”
TC3Summit:WhyIt’sUnique

Why These Slides Are Free
We’re not modest about this. We think our TC3 Summit is incredibly valuable to attendees,
and they consistently agree. And we think these aggregated slides from our Summit are
also very valuable.
We think it’s a service to the carriers and to the entrepreneurs worldwide to distribute
these slides freely, and as widely as possible. The next best carrier partnership deal may
well grow out of our TC3 Summit, but it also may come from some team of entrepreneurs,
far removed from Silicon Valley, coding away in some garage, who were somehow inspired
or guided by these slides. We’d be honored to play a small role in that.
There’s far more value in attending the TC3 Summit than just these slides, but this info
should be available to entrepreneurs worldwide, not just those lucky enough to attend our
annual TC3 Summit.
Use this well, and we wish you“makers”good fortune and dealmaking in 2017.
But we didn’t create the valuable content in the slides – the
network operators themselves did. They offered it to us and our TC3
audience because they are wisely choosing to tell entrepreneurs
exactly what they need, and how to work with them.

How To Use These Slides
At the TC3 Summit, we require that network operators who speak on stage include at
least these two very specific slides:
1. A clear list of the carriers’ technology gaps or needs from partners
2. Methods for engaging with the carrier (addresses, sites, incubators, etc.)*
(*This second slide has lots of personal contact information, which we cannot publish to the web, and
is not in this deck.)
In isolation, each slide only offers a snapshot of a single player in the ecosystem, but
collectively, this document highlights major trends. Consider them:
Individually the #1 slides are very powerful as they give us a window into each carrier,
and their specific technology gaps. You should look at what is mentioned, but also what
is not. The Telecom Council suggests readers look deeper at individual slides and
consider clarity of vision and clarity of message.
In aggregate, the 24 operator slides reveal the major trends, spending shifts, and
entrepreneurial opportunities across the communications industry in 2017. Once again,
what isn’t mentioned is often as important as what is. VCs and entrepreneurs should
look for the most frequently mentioned topics and pivot towards them.

The Network Opertor’s
Slides
(alphabetically)

AT&T
2017 INNOVATION ROADMAP

Bouygues Telecom

BT

Cable Labs

China Mobile

Deutsche Telekom

Deutsche Telekom / T-Labs

Docomo Innovations

Jawwy

JT

Orange / Orange Fab

PLDT/ Smart

Reliance

Rogers

SoftBank

Sprint

Saudi Telecom (STC)

Swisscom

T-Mobile

TATA Communications

Telefónica

Telia Company

Telstra

Verizon

Telecom Council Members Include

About The Council

JOIN US AT TC3 2017
Nov 1-2, 2017
Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA
Participants will…
Connect with innovation executives from 50 global operators,
Review 50+ new fixed and wireless innovations and startups,
Meet 100+ innovation scouts who can provide a path to market,
Participate in the 1000+ introductions and Matchmaker Meetings, and
Hear directly from global carriers and vendors on their innovation priorities.
The 2-day event ticket price is expected to be about US $1,500
www.telecomcouncil.com/TC3

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