Could mobile payments market really be worth $630 billion in five years?
Business models have been a hindrance in the past, but they are quickly evolving to make big predictions about mobile payments seem like more than hype....
HP doubles down on telecom consulting
The vendor’s transformation-focused telecom consulting practice is to gain consultant numbers and move away from ‘pre-packaged’ engagements....
Telco business intelligence, analytics landscape changing
Mega-vendors dominate the overall market, but a trend toward ‘departmental buying’ in communications and other verticals has helped smaller, more tactical players gain, as well....
Telcos team to find better ways to recapture ‘lost’ revenue
Work to be unveiled at TM Forum will help revenue assurance managers prioritize RA projects to recover dollars and plug biggest leakages...
OSS/BSS vendor Intec's APAC focus pays off
Its latest customer win is to help Grameenphone in Bangladesh meet regulatory compliance and settlement requirements....
Openet SDM approach builds services out of customer profiles
The vendor’s new subscriber data management solution combines data about customers with business intelligence capabilities to improve how service providers monetize their customer base with more personalized services....
Nepal Telecom focuses on enhancing ‘user experience’ with Aricent
Like any emerging market, India’s service providers want to clear up network congestion and focus on fast growth, scalability and QOS....
Content providers get help from back-office players
OSS/BSS telecom vendors like CSG Systems are branching out to help content providers get the systems help they need to deliver their programming directly to consumers...
BT explores ‘group’ cloud economics
While some customers will buy and consume single cloud services, many will want to integrate multiple service offerings; BT explores how...
TM Forum Catalyst to focus on MCE
Harmony VI will demonstrate processes, metrics, applications and integration contracts for MCE solutions. ...
Profit woes, volcanic ash plague Intec
But a new deal with integration giant CSC offers good news....
Verizon expands security program to small- and medium-sized businesses
Remote or on-site offerings available; remote offering can lead to certification....
Telenor implements standards-based OSS to overhaul mobile network
To streamline service and resource capabilities, Telenor will use Telcordia’s NGOSS-based platform to unify management and realize capex/opex savings....
Subscriber Data Management: Unlocking hidden data assets
While it’s still being defined, SDM promises to help service providers resolve problems with dirty or duplicate data, cutting down revenue leakage, reducing opex and speeding new services to market...
Redknee expands settlement footprint in Asia
Vendor scores win for its wholesale billing and interconnect solution with Brunei-based operator...
Subex ROCcloud launch offers revenue management to small telcos
The offering boasts a zero-implementation scenario delivering managed service with minimal on-boarding and setup....
Data crunch solution: Optimizing the mobile app, not the network
Rather than looking for ways to shove more data onto 3G networks, carriers and vendors are looking at minimizing the impact of the applications themselves...
Inside the TM Forum’s big new architecture play
Service providers have had mixed success with big-bang OSS/BSS transformation, but the new Frameworx effort aims to bring all the back-office pieces together again...
Fickle is the customer, how agile is the service provider?
Joining the Connected Planet staff covering the BSS/OSS market, our newest writer discusses what’s tried, true and new about knowing your customers...
Paetec launches intrusion detection service
Paetec’s announcement today that it will offer a managed intrusion detection and prevention system will expand the company’s hosted security line, which already includes a managed customer premises-based firewall offering, hosted Web and e-mail and other services. ...
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