Amir Iskandar / Chief Executive Officer
Perspectives from a life in leadership.
The latest essay
Merging mobile operators usually wait for the regulator's objections and then bargain the conditions down. Having offered our own remedies with our filing, I think the merging companies should design them, because they understand their networks and customers better than anyone else can.
Read the essayMerging mobile operators usually wait for the regulator's objections and then bargain the conditions down. Having offered our own remedies with our filing, I think the merging companies should design them, because they understand their networks and customers better than anyone else can.
Southeast Asian operators present bundled video and music subscriptions as their answer to the global platforms. Measured honestly, most bundles are an expensive price cut, and the money is better spent on the services platforms cannot build for themselves.
Government-linked shareholders sometimes ask the operators they invest in to meet public needs directly. The needs are usually real, but a shareholder's request is the wrong instrument: it loads the cost on one company and often serves the purpose worse than a licence condition would.