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ROME (Reuters) – Italy should play a role in resolving the gridlock over Telecom Italia’s (TIM) network assets, possibly by involving state lender Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), the president of the ruling PD party said in a position paper. Italian politicians have been calling on and off since 2006 for TIM’s network to be […]
The wholesale industry is all about buzz words at the moment – from IoT to Security and blockchain. A newcomer making its wholesale buzz list debut recently is ‘Artificial Intelligence’ or AI. In most of our minds, AI brings images of robots taking over the world and annihilating the human race. The fear is that […]
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s leading state-controlled telecoms operator may be forced to share a key part of its network with smaller rivals, government officials told Reuters, under a landmark proposal to liberalize a $14 billion telecoms sector and speed up the roll-out of broadband coverage over the next three years. While there is already competition […]
While everyone focuses on the cool wristbands, industrial sensors, data-driven applications and the compelling end-user experience, the real smarts in the Internet of Things (IoT) is largely hidden from the public, and from the media too: The intelligence is in the network, and in the software that keeps that network humming. Make no mistake: The […]
Ericsson’s net sales declined in Q1 and the company started to re-organize its management. Nokia finalized the Alcatel-Lucent acquisition and laid off thousands of employees. Network vendors are waiting for the 5G building boom and are also planning new business lines. But it is hard to tell if they are really able to change their business; they […]
It seems no matter what network operators do to have the most up-to-date infrastructure in place, provide the fastest speeds imaginable and offer the best services they can lay their hands on – if a network fails for one minute it all comes to naught. The latest ‘victim’ of a massive network dropout was Telstra […]
Mobile operators are facing a familiar timing dilemma when it comes to smart cities. They can target wide area IoT applications aggressively, but make technology compromises, or they can wait for a year or two until it becomes clearer which of the many network choices will have staying power. Or they can keep all their […]
With LTE deployments well under way, operators are now thinking beyond simply launching 4G and are focused more on market strategies and the next stages of the evolutionary roadmap. Telecom Asia and analyst firm Ovum teamed up once again for an online mobile broadband survey to dig deeper into those strategies. The survey covers a lot of ground, but […]
PARIS/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Europe’s telecoms equipment makers look set for an unpredictable year because of consolidation among their operator customers and a slowdown of buildouts of faster mobile networks, known as 4G, in the United States and China. Nevertheless, overall spending on mobile and fixed networks is expected to grow for a second consecutive year, […]
Making use of, and making human, the massive amount of data that telcos have running through their veins will stand them in good stead in the battle for customer loyalty and recommendation. We believe that billing is now the voice of customer service – BillingViews reflects that belief. From the customer’s point of view the […]
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