The survey reveals SMEs are shifting to digital-first buying but still value human support. Telcos face rising competition from cloud marketplaces, with service quality and trust now the strongest drivers of SME loyalty.
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Hwee-Xian Tan
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Hwee-Xian is a senior analyst with Omdia’s service provider enterprise and wholesale service team. He focuses on the SoHo and SME intelligence services, providing analysis and data to help service providers benefit from market opportunities, and general trend analysis in the Asian ICT services market.
Before joining Omdia (formerly Ovum), Hwee-Xian was a senior analyst for IDC’s Asia/Pacific telecoms group, where he led telecoms services, managed services, unified communications, and collaboration trackers for a broad portfolio of customers across the region. His responsibilities included delivering innovative customized research, project management, and presales product marketing on telecoms operators and infrastructure vendors. Hwee-Xian holds a bachelor’s degree in human ecology and a master’s degree in business administration. He is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Cindy Whelan is Practice Leader for Omdia’s Telco B2B Strategies Solutions Intelligence Service. In this role, she focuses on enterprise and wholesale services and provides analysis to help service providers understand B2B market trends and how to respond to them. Cindy also covers telco network services, including Network-as-a-Service (NaaS), SD-WAN/SASE, virtualized network services, and carrier wholesale solutions.
Cindy has more than 30 years of experience in the telecoms industry, working for communications solutions vendors and analyst firms. Cindy has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a focus in Management from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA.
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