The Business Case for Opening the Network

Over the past year we've seen many operators launching open development initiatives, e.g. Verizon, O2, and Vodafone; as well as operators deploy gateways in their network to expose capabilities, e.g. Three in Australia and Telus in Canada.  But are these activities just 'window dressing,' to keep investors content and analysts and the mediaquiet?  Or is there a solid business case and rationale behind them?  This session brings together work undertaken with many operators around the world in building their open innovation business cases, to frankly and independently present a 'typical' case.