There has been a very clear opportunity for CSPs to expand their triple and quad play offerings by implementing a smart home service, for quite a few years now. Despite this, Amazon and Google waddled in and created a consumer duopoly, chiefly because interoperability was a problem they could solve in their gigantic cloud environments. For the CSPs, with their legacy CPE decisions, multi-vendor deployments, and general poor track record on technological overhauls, the smart home has appeared daunting. They don’t have a voice-processing platform than can solve user-experience problems, and can’t subsidize that cost via retail or advertising revenues, in the same way that Amazon and Google can. So, the CSPs have collectively stayed out of this game, and…