The Looming Destruction of the Telecommunications Software Industry:

The telecom software industry is at a pivotal juncture – consolidation among service providers, risk-averse customer buying behaviors, and increasingly long sales cycles are threatening the very survival of telecom software vendors. Yet stifling innovation in this key area of the value chain will relegate service providers to low-value transport pipes, relative to nimble innovators like Google. Given current trends, is telecom software innovation doomed for good? What can the industry do to stop the madness?   View the highlights: