Mohammad Chowdhury

Mohammad Chowdhury

Mohammad Chowdhury is PwC's Telecom, Media and Technology consulting leader across Australia, SE Asia and New Zealand. Until recently he built the practice in India where he became one of the most quoted industry experts in the country. Mohammad has served as an adviser to telecom sector reform in Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Slovakia, Poland and Slovenia and during 2015 as national telecommunications adviser to the Government of Myanmar. Previously in his career he has conducted significant strategic roles at Vodafone and IBM. He is quoted regularly by the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC, CNBC, TV-18 and NDTV. Mohammad has worked in 83 countries, lived in 7 and speaks 6 languages. He has a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University, an MPhil in Economics from Cambridge University, and strategy training from Harvard Business School. He was born in London, has family origins in Bangladesh, and is married with two sons.


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Under the current business model, telcos’ rising capital intensity is destined to go hand in hand with falling capital returns
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This year, with all the talk of IoT and 5G network, I felt that the mobile industry that pioneered at the event, was in danger of becoming a guest in its own living room
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It’s impossible for the social media network to come to a common consensus on what users wants to see on their newsfeed
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Whether the industry can find a stream of profitable revenue which it can defend long-term from being taken back by the traditional taxis it has disrupted
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While there are several initiatives to push digitalisation around the world, there may be some archaic policies standing in the way.
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India’s first Price War was fought on voice and second Price War will be fought squarely over data.
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Didi Chuxing taking over Uber reassures us that the world is not about to be dominated by a small number of Western brands
In the 21st century, technology will be the pivot to enabling a greater degree of connectedness and participation between citizens and the economy, and between citizens and their local and national governments (Image: Neil Hall / Reuters)
It is high time countries take the steps necessary to realise the benefits of inclusion through technology
Mobile is the primary channel for internet access and internet-based transactions in China, and for this reason the challenge of mobile security is becoming a priority for individuals, enterprises and government ( Photo: Shutterstock)
The current readiness to deal with mobile-accessed internet-related security threats is low, but things are beginning to happen
Indian Farmer checking growth of rice paddy farm and making call with smart phone, concept for technology help available to farmers in today's world ( Photo: Shutterstock)
New services are cropping up in several countries which directly address specific market and farmer challenges
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