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The word database is an almost invisible part of our world. It suggests a foundation for data, yet seems a little static. In the past, of course, it didn’t need to be much else. In a telco environment, it needed to manage information in time for the bill run at the end of the month. […]
Telecommunications companies (telcos) are at the heart of digital innovation and disruption in other industries such as media, banking and automotive, but are they lagging behind in the digital transformation of their own businesses? Is it really possible to do A while aggressively and boldly pursuing B? Of course, they are facing their own strategic […]
If you were tasked with starting up a brand new, greenfield communications network do you think you would opt for a traditional telco OSS/BSS support infrastructure or opt for a much simpler all-you-can-eat subscription model? If you opted for the latter you are either and non-telco person or a liar. Let me explain. For a […]
In the last few months it seems that the telco world has gritted its teeth. The digital revolution has come. For a long time, there was the usual telco attitude, one that Douglas Adams described as putting up a ‘somebody else’s problem field.’ That, it seems, has changed. In fact, according to a vendor of […]
“Telcos have been enabling digital disruption in other industries for years and years, so why on earth are they only now wondering what the impact is on their own business?” This was how Peter Day, a veteran commentator on business with the BBC, summed up the morning’s session at last week’s Great Telco Debate. His […]
There was a positive outlook at the Great Telco Debate (#GTD15) yesterday. Overall there was a feeling that operators are beginning to engage properly with the digital age. They are clearly thinking deeply about many business models and partnerships. And not least, they seem to be working out where they fit in the IoT. Thus […]
This is the first in a series of articles where we are looking at “extreme” billing. What, you might ask, is extreme billing? It is, essentially, a case study where the billing process performs at the extreme end of the capabilities of the people, software and technology who run the billing process. We start with […]
IMS research claims that there will be more than 326 million cellular M2M connections globally by 2016, up from about 107 million today. For that to happen though, M2M has to play well with all that’s happening in the cloud. As a result, telcos have to figure out how to make on-demand connection management work […]
Ericsson CTO Ulf Ewaldsson proposed a forward-looking strategy for Telco networks in an open, over-the-top world during his opening keynote at this week’s Broadband World Forum in Amsterdam. The upshot is to imbue Telco networks with OSS/BSS-based and IMS-based services that are accessible to third party development. This concept aligns with Ericsson’s recent OSS/BSS acquisition […]
With cyber attack volumes hitting record highs in 2012, Infonetics is about to report that it expects the cloud-based security market to grow by 83 percent by 2016. Report author, Infonetics principal analyst for security Jeff Wilson, chalks up the increasing demand to the increased complexity in securing the diversifying number of apps, devices, and […]
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