by Alex LeslieJune 9th, 2011
I am not one to automatically leap to the defense of telcos. They have a tough job and have to make tough choices. Sometimes they make the right ones. It is easy to look at them from the outside and criticize. Verizon’s latest billing blunder (courtesy of Broadband Reports), in which the carrier seemed to be siphoning cash from subscriber checking accounts (!), is a clear case in point.
If I had $400 taken from my account I would be somewhat annoyed. Actually I would be really quite cross. (more…)
Related Topics: BSS/OSS |
by Alex LeslieJune 8th, 2011
According to Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) CEO Greg Stuart, the telecom market is missing a multi-billion dollar opportunity in the form of mobile advertising. In his 20 years or so in advertising, he has never seen such seismic change happen so fast. The advertising industry itself has to adapt at great speed. But he believes that the telecom industry is in danger of missing out because – get this— the market is currently too small.
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Related Topics: BSS/OSS, Mobile Apps |
by Alex LeslieJune 7th, 2011
I passed a press release to a colleague yesterday. It was about Convergys selling some assets (CP: Convergys sells wireless stakes to AT&T for $320 million). An email arrived from another colleague saying that he did not know that Convergys had any network assets to sell.
‘Network assets?’ I thought, ‘nor did I.’ (more…)
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by Rich KarpinskiJune 6th, 2011
Yes, that’s a pun in the headline (sorry). Carriers, and their vendors, have been talking about deploying new service delivery platforms for quite some time, particularly more horizontally-focused, less-siloed and more standards-based platforms. According to data from Infonetics, they are finally starting to get there, with plans to spend more than $5.2 billion on SDP platforms by 2015. The key driver is the other half of the pun: time-to-market advantages in driving new services out to customers, in particular new mobile services. (more…)
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by Susana SchwartzMay 17th, 2011
Application-based pricing is a concept that makes more and more sense as larger numbers of people consume content from different channels and sources. Rather than charge in non-intuitive was such as per-gigabyte or per-megabyte, operators want to move toward service offerings that reflect real usage and real language. (more…)
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by Susana SchwartzMay 17th, 2011
Sandvine’s Global Internet Phenomena Report: Spring 2011 was released today,revealing that real-time entertainment traffic represents 49.2% of peak period fixed access traffic in North America—a rate that means it will comprise 55-60% of traffic by the end of the year. Those figures represent a 60-percent jump from 29.5% in 2009.
The report also says Netflix can boast 23.6 million subscribers, even though that’s less than 25% of U.S. broadband connected homes that currently subscribe to Netflix. (more…)
Related Topics: BSS/OSS, Residential Services |
by Susana SchwartzMay 12th, 2011
Oracle yesterday released the results of independent research to gauge service providers’ opinions about adoption of OSS/BSS standards. (more…)
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by Susana SchwartzMay 9th, 2011
Cisco today announced it would offer Xerox’s printing services on its network equipment, perhaps in the hopes to allay fears it cannot keep up with Juniper Networks, HP, F5 and other competitors. (more…)
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by Susana SchwartzMay 6th, 2011
As “containerized” data centers become more popular, carriers will have cost incentives, as well as altruistic ones for investing in these “data centers-in-a-box.” (more…)
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by Susana SchwartzMay 4th, 2011
The Internet traffic generated by the Royal Wedding demonstrates what a royal pain spikes in traffic can be, or what an opportunity they present if operators fully utilize their intelligent policy control solutions. (more…)
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