Subscription management platforms such as +play will provide telcos with an effective means of luring customers away from D2C relationships and onto their own bundle propositions and billing platforms.
Verizon’s +play brings subscription management to a mass audience
The Analyst Team
Jonathan Doran
Principal Analyst, Digital Consumer Operator Strategies
As part of Omdia’s digital consumer operator strategies (DCOS) research practice, Jonathan covers the TV and video entertainment sectors. He is an expert in telco video, with a particular focus on operator product and service strategies, delivering a comprehensive range of telco TV and over-the-top (OTT) partnership analyses.
Jonathan has a specific interest in video entertainment and the relationships between traditional pay-TV operators and third-party OTT video service providers. Tracking the evolving landscape for bundled video services forms a key component of his research. Prior to joining Omdia (formerly Ovum), Jonathan spent eight years with Yankee Group, where he specialized in consumer technology, broadband, and digital TV issues.
Alzbeta Fellenbaum
Principal Analyst, Broadband & Bundling
Alzbeta Fellenbaum is a Principal Analyst covering consumer broadband access data and bundling trends. She follows closely and advises on internet service provider consumer broadband strategies and monitors technical and regulatory developments across the industry.
Alzbeta was a principal analyst and research manager at IHS Markit and a member of the service providers and platforms team. Alzbeta joined IHS Markit in 2012 and managed the Broadband Coverage in Europe project for the European Commission. Before, Alzbeta was an audience research and market insights coordinator for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague, Czech Republic. Alzbeta was also a research assistant at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Alzbeta holds a Master of Arts in international relations and American studies from Charles University in Prague and has studied at the University of Miami and Georgetown University.
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