Sacrificing network transformation projects as part of cost-cutting measures could be a bad move, according to Keith Willets, chairman and CEO of the TM Forum.
He writes in his recent blog on TM Forum Online, “Delaying investment because of the downturn could be the worst thing they will ever do.”
The reason is that the underlying motive of such transformation projects is to eliminate the current infrastructure that’s a “a mill-stone around every service provider's neck, slowing their time-to-market for new services; keeping their operating costs higher than they need be.”
Sure, service providers should engage in short-term spending cuts, but not short-sighted ones. Those that stay the course will be rewarded as usual in the boom that follows the bust.
