Summary
Two of Asia's leading telecom CEOs, Vikram Sinha of Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and Imri Mokhtar of Telekom Malaysia, sat down at the second Asia Pacific Telecom Summit to discuss where growth will come from next for an industry facing commoditised core connectivity. Moderated by Twimbit's founder Manoj Menon, the two CEOs surface the priorities and hardest trade-offs telco leadership teams are wrestling with as they plan beyond traditional mobile and fixed services.
Core connectivity remains foundational even as operators pursue adjacent revenue streams such as digital payments and entertainment, with strategic reasoning behind expanding into non-connectivity services spanning technology disruption to improving customer retention and average revenue per account. Telcos are also optimising costs through network modernisation and synergies from in-country mergers, while balancing capital expenditure against customer-facing pricing.
Beyond strategy, the CEOs address some of the toughest organizational decisions telcos face, including people transformation toward cross-functional, bottom-up operating models, and how to attract digital talent that might otherwise choose to work at pure technology companies rather than telecom operators repositioning themselves as tech-driven businesses.
- CEO perspectives from Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and Telekom Malaysia
- Organizational transformation and digital talent acquisition strategies
Where will growth come from once core connectivity alone can no longer carry a telco's ambitions?
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