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March 05, 2010

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Antoine RJ Wright

Ah, now this is stuff I deal in everyday - taking information from business intelligence to analytics to solutions (or marketing)... totally the future of information management as companies better understand the role of data. We see this in the sports and credit card arenas, for mobile... should be fun.

Really need to sit and chat with you Tomi, we could have a ball with this subject.

Romi Parmar

Fascinating post Tomi thanks,

I can also imagine the jokes: If your BMW dealer offers you the "double fully reclining back seat" & "champagne bottle chiller" options when you're next upgrading your wife's car... it's probably also time to have a serious talk with her about all those late nights she's working!

Dean Bubley

Tomi

The problem is that there is a trillion dollars of legacy mobile network infrastructure, which was not designed with this type of database intelligence in mind.

In theory, much of this is great - but the difficulties in actually extracting the data are huge. It's locked away in proprietary databases inside HLRs and billing systems, with no easy or cheap ways of collating it. This is why a lot of the network vendors are now talking about "subscriber data management", but it's still very early days and will take a huge amount of investment to get anywhere near the ease-of-access enjoyed by (for example) Google.

As a marketer, I'd rather have cheap and easy (but imperfect) data now, rather than perfect but expensive and difficult-to-access data in 10 years' time.

As far as I can see, this type of data warehousing concept is not enshrined at the heart of new LTE architectures, either.

The "engagement marketing" part of the problem is unfortunately quite minor in comparison to the complexities of network-side data aggregation in the first place.

There is also a distinct risk that by the time it is "fixed", other technology trends will have disintermediated network operators from some of the underlying information about indentity. (eg Multi-SIM or Multi-IMSI devices, shared connectivity through ad-hoc networks etc).

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