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Agentic ecommerce: Amazon defends the walled garden model
4 November 2026Ecommerce agents are beginning to interfere with Amazon's ownership of discovery, making fulfillment and seller services central for ongoing growth.
Amazon is defending its control over user habits by leaning into vertical integration with in-house agent Alexa for Shopping.
Competitors are placing their bets on a distributed model for agentic ecommerce, as an alternative to the walled garden.
Karen Egan was quoted in The Times on "Show us the money: BT investors want results from Allison Kirkby"
2 November 2026This could play to Openreach’s advantage as the challenger networks limit their expansion, Karen Egan, head of telecoms at Enders Analysis, said. “They’re definitely hitting ceilings in their current footprint,” she said.
“BT will of course endeavour to stabilise the TalkTalk subscriber base but they tend to be customers with a high propensity to churn, and the takeover disruption will probably make things worse before they get better,” Egan said.
Karen Egan appeared on BBC Radio Berkshire to discuss VMO2
2 November 2026
Karen Egan appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss VMO2
2 November 2026Satellite telephony: Grounded reality
2 November 2026The planned increase in Direct to Device (D2D) capacity will still leave just a small proportion of the rural mobile market addressable, and is a complete non-starter for urban areas (even in the US), making disintermediation extremely unlikely
Although satellite broadband is less constrained it will still face a ceiling of a few percentage points of the UK broadband market
We do not expect satellite broadband players to deploy mass-market strategies in the UK/Europe for reasons of both economics and physics
Meta unfriends TikTok: Entering the zero-sum era
29 October 2026TikTok's social advertising land grab is putting a squeeze on Meta it can ill afford, as it blocks ads that link to TikTok in the US and other large markets.
TikTok and Meta share a desire to prevent marketing value leaking to creators, an area where TikTok has a lead on Meta through its network and creator tools.
Meta is planning for a billion users of Muse in a new tilt at shopping, as TikTok and Amazon freeze Meta's agents out of their own retail platforms.
Net neutrality in the UK: A longer leash required
29 October 2026UK net neutrality rules are still discouraging telcos from launching enhanced connectivity services, which could benefit consumers and businesses, and support network investment.
Content providers are best protected by focusing on core measures that prevent throttling/blocking, rather than discouraging services that they themselves could also benefit from.
Legislative change could deliver the freedom that telcos want with the protections that content providers need, all while maintaining UK/EU treaty obligations to the Open Internet.