Opinion
The other morning I read that the Tide business current account is taking 7% of the market for new customer accounts. A big achievement for a bank that’s less than a year old. (Strictly speaking Tide isn’t a bank as the card is an electronic money product but that doesn’t really matter when you look at […]
The launch of Amazon Key has divided opinion. Key is a camera and digital locking system that allows Amazon to leave parcels in customers’ homes, without someone having to be there. Customers can watch the process on their smartphone camera, via an app. While Amazon is obviously very determined that this is the future of delivery […]
This article aims to express what platform businesses are and how they intend to partner and collaborate with other platform businesses to deliver solutions to customers. It also deals with the limits of the current standardisation efforts, and how they can be counteracted by the deployment of artificial intelligence components in the system. It also […]
DisruptiveViews (DV) recently caught up with Openet’s new COO, Jon Ross (JR), to ask his opinion about the future of BSS and the challenges and opportunities ahead. DV: Jon, thank you for taking the time to talk to us. You have been in your new role of COO at Openet for just a few weeks. […]
It is tempting to believe that installing all those home devices, such as security, lighting and monitoring will be an easy task. Surely in this digital age, an app or some remote bot can open, install, test and guide you through the process. Not so, according to a survey of 2,000 consumers across five countries, […]
It will come as no, or little, surprise that digital transformation programmes among Communications Service Providers (CSPs) are not going as well, or as fast as we would like. The reason, as usual, is not about things technical, it is about things cultural and about communications (or the lack of communications). This is the main […]
If it feels like 5G is coming faster than you thought it would, that’s because it is, according to Ericsson’s 5G Readiness Survey 2017 report. According to the report, 78% of operators surveyed said they are already trialing 5G technologies (vs 32% in 2016), and 28% expect to deploy 5G next year. Meanwhile, 36% say […]
The digital advertising model is broken. And finally publishers are accepting this fact. It is not before time, the rest of the world, digital or otherwise, spends much of its time saying that we now live in a subscription economy. The irony, of course, is that while reading this message on our favourite sites, we […]
Cambodia may not be the first Asia-Pacific market that springs to mind when you talk about the latest advances in mobile broadband, yet it’s hardly a laggard. Every mobile operator in the country offers 4G services – to include Cellcard, which was the last cellco to launch 4G but offers the fastest connectivity of the […]
Dailymail.co.uk is the hub of celebrity gossip for millions of people in Western Europe and beyond. It is not the first place I would think of when it comes to groundbreaking technological research, but a survey outlining so-called First World Problems caught my eye last week. The top 20 includes a number of eye rollers; picking out […]
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