Telcos have not in the past had much success as providers of enterprise system integration and management services. That may be changing as the business of system itnegration begins to look a lot more like advanced communications. BT has been forceful about transitioning in this way. Now Deutsche Telekom (DT) may make a bid to buy IT services giant EDS (EDS).
Telcos and mobile services providers are increasingly becoming IT providers, either directly or as integrators or aggregators of IT functions that they then deliver to their customers. Similarly, large software providers are moving towards "software as a service." And what is communications but "software as a service."
BT was ahead of the curve on this trend.
