A very interesting evening tonight which I was allowed to host and chair. The cities of Amsterdam and The Hague had organised an industry analysis evening on the TIME sector, ahead of www.denhaagtelecom.nl. Two great analysts from the UK came over, James Enck of eurotelcoblog and Martin Geddes of telepocalyse. (The pictures of Martin were unfortunately not good enough to post).

They shared a fairly pessimistic viewpoint on the telecommunications industry, where slim to get fit seems to be the best effort, rather than innovation. Innovation is coming from new digital creative start ups, that require less funding but that can capture what the consumer wants. And there is still a lot to be done in that area.

The first blognomics podcast was made with these two analysts and it will be available shortly.