Internal friction can inhibit innovation and blunt competitiveness in any sector and telecoms is no exception. On the other side of the coin, telcos also have the opportunity to prototype their own developments inhouse and fine-tune them before releasing them into the field, providing this is done selectively only in relevant areas without causing too much teething pain from unproven technologies. Some of these points emerged from the latest CEO survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the world’s second largest services and accountancy group. The headline finding of its 24th such annual survey was that 83% of telco CEOs expect to be disrupted by direct or indirect competitors in the next five years. These new competitors will be coming into what…