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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s telecommunications regulator is discussing a proposal that would allow billionaire Carlos Slim’s America Movil to start charging local rivals again for calls made to clients on its network, according to a document seen by Reuters. Rivals such as AT&T and Telefonica have been anxiously awaiting new rates since the Supreme […]
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 […]
The wholesale telecoms business is a tough business to be in on the best of days – competition is fierce and margins are as thin as they get. And the age of digital disruption isn’t making things easier – wholesale players are pressured to evolve with the times and the demands of their customers, but […]
News highlights for 8 August 2017 Kids should explore the digital world, to save us all LONDON (Reuters) – Parents who think they are being responsible by limiting their children’s time online should think again: they could be putting their kids and Britain’s security at a disadvantage, according to a former British spy chief. Read […]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union’s digital chief has said that failure to solve the last remaining barrier to abolishing mobile roaming charges across the bloc in June would lead people to question its ability to deliver on promises. EU lawmakers and member states hold a third and probably final round of talks on Tuesday […]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union proposed on Wednesday cutting the wholesale roaming rates that telecoms operators pay each other when customers use their mobile phones abroad to pave the way for the abolition of retail roaming charges by summer next year. The EU struck a deal a year ago to abolish mobile roaming charges […]
Most wholesale carriers are aware of the growth of cloud computing and the impact of that on IT operations in particular. However, the impact of those same technologies on their networks and systems has not yet had much consideration. According to the whitepaper “PoP virtualization – From Concept to reality” released by HOT TELECOM and sponsored […]
The wholesale communications business is worth $170 billion a year. Wholesale fraud, which used to be seen as a cost of business is now running at over three percent. This equates to losses of $6.12 billion a year, according to a recent survey by Revenue and Asset Assurance specialist Subex. The problem has been made […]
A survey by Capacity Media and Subex asked 190 0perators of all sizes, from across the world for their views on wholesale fraud. Whilst the industry tends to focus on retail and consumer issues, there are clearly threats at the wholesale level too. The fraud problem is $6.12 billion, in a market worth $170 billion. Amongst the […]
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