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The Financing Imperative — Sink or Swim
The unbridled drive toward convergence and multimedia technologies is leaving a lot of operators — new and transformed — in need of bootstrapping to deploy new gear, expand to new geographies, enter new markets and raise their profiles. Investors meanwhile look at this space with the cautious eyes of those stung by telecom’s nuclear winter.

No one wants a repeat of the dot-com boom and bust. On that they can agree.

Getting operators and investors on the same page about which of the innovative business models makes for a sound investment is a bit more of a challenge. Funding gear is less risky because manufacturers are the equivalent of arms merchants, selling to whichever service providers come out on top. Pinning hopes on a service delivery model is a greater risk. However, the freeze on investment has begun to thaw in the last 12 to 18 months as optimism in the telecom and financial markets has risen. But there is still work to be done to aid understanding of how telecom and finance can help each other achieve their goals.

Capital 2.0 offers such a forum for education and networking among C-level executives from telecom operators and financial entities. It’s a chance to clear up misconceptions about business models, provide a reality check for the uninitiated entrepreneur and find some common ground on which to build the next-generation telecommunications networks.