I’ve both praised and pilloried BT for its innovation and as always it comes back to that fundamental question: Can a network/telecoms carrier change its direction and be seen as a credible leader of new technologies? To an outsider the answer should be obvious. BT is awash with technology. There’s barely a software house on the planet that can’t claim BT as a customer. Even if much sits as shelfware.
According to Sam Sethi – who has good reason to know these things:
Whilst BT still gets most of it’s revenues from the good old fashioned analogue POTS and the share price ticks along nothing dramatic will ever happen. BT won’t acquire a DoubleClick or Flickr to make a real change to its business. So like Nero, BT will continue to tinker while Rome burns.
Not exactly an invigorating prospect for the entrepreneur expecting to find innovation.
