Not to beat this drum too loudly, but cloud computing is among the one or two key truly significant changes that affect the telecom industry, dramatically expanding a business’ reliance on the network and dramatically increasing data volume — particularly data volume through cell sites as roaming employees access documents and other business content heretofore maintained locally.

The other significant change, as I’ve mentioned ad nauseam, is telecom’s move completely away from business models based on services (such as voice), toward models based on connecting developers of content/services and consumers of this content.