Monetization of policy platforms will be a new trend
No longer just a means for managing bandwidth, policy platforms will be a key enabler to generating revenue...
Santa, you think you have a lot on your plate? Check FCC Chairman Genachowski’s list
The FCC chief and his fellow commissioners may look forward to sipping some strongly spiked egg nog over the holidays, given the contentious net neutrality proceedings on their plate....
Survey shows confidence in service providers as cloud providers
But doubt lingers about their ability to get services up and running quickly....
Atria OSS/BSS overhaul will yield big results
Rapid growth by acquisition meant the network operator needed to rein in disparate business processes and workflows...
Cisco report says security hampering cloud adoption for larger players
But smaller players in telecom may find its SaaS application to compelling to ignore....
Analysis: 'DPI' by any name continues to climb in importance
As industry moves into second generation of DPI, the focus is moving toward network visibility and intelligence ...
How to effectively manage and monetize the telecom 'cloud'
Telcos should think more like airlines or energy companies, which utilize 'yield management' to sell the maximum capacity at the maximum amount at the right time...
Hybrid pre-/post-paid bundles winning over subscribers
SETAR believes profitability will be driven by a 'give-em-what-they-want' strategy as opposed to caps and restrictions ...
Analysis: Will FTC 'do not track' impact telco business models?
The issue may pit corporate concerns about "monetizing the Internet" against individual privacy rights...
Analysis: Choose policy solutions wisely
Arbitrary blocking of traffic will do little to resolve actual congestion, but will do a lot to anger customers...
Alcatel-Lucent helps bridge the gap between mobile operators and advertisers
Mobile providers are well positioned to be enablers to ‘conversational marketing’ for major advertisers and brands, and to generate new profit streams if they automate and standardize language, formats and inventories....
CSG, Intec deal signals billing market consolidation
Fast-becoming a commodity market, the billing systems landscape will probably see more M&A activity as operators seek "end-to-end" platforms that help consolidate systems and reduce the number of vendor relationships they must manage ...
What you don't think about when it comes to cloud services
While lots of attention is paid to automated provisioning, little is said about accommodating the bursty nature of operational data--namely operational event log data inherent with cloud services. ...
Analysis: To monetize data, pricing will go through a revolution too
From flat-rate, to tiered-, to speed-based to value-based pricing—that seems to be the way the industry might go....
CIOs and IT need 'virtualization' to do 'virtually' everything
In addition to constantly responding to changing business requirements from increasingly demanding marketing and product management executives, IT organizations need to improve time to service, simplify networks, reduce energy use, and lower costs. Virtualization increasingly is becoming the key...
Product managers and marketing cannot manage converged services with legacy tools
The time has come to adopt multi-screen service management that revolves around a single service-assurance database...
Two telco billing companies merge operations
NISC, Computer Systems combine operations, possibly signaling a consolidation trend ...
The Broadband 'New World Order'
Tiered services won't be enough, as the race to win broadband consumers will mean personalized data plans that cater to their personal profiles ...
GSMA: The time has come for more connected devices
The GSM Association CSP members have done an about-face on policy around programmable SIM cards to be embedded into devices....
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