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Month: March 2013

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News

Tip Jar Conspiracy Promotes NFC for Mobile Payments

March 29, 2013 Edward Finegold 0

I’ve been obsessing over mobile payments and why NFC is allowed to remain a hurdle to their adoption. But now I think I’m onto something – it’s a conspiracy fomented by an army of devalued […]

Billing Driven Opportunities

The VoLTE Conundrum (or the Elephant in the Room)

March 28, 2013 Alex Leslie 0

LTE is about data and people are still – generally – about talking to one another. So the question is ‘what do we do about voice and LTE?’ LTE is here. There were 100 million […]

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Newsletters

Oracle Takes Tekelec, Fraud Takes $6 billion and Redknee Takes an Award

March 28, 2013 Alex Leslie 0

This week on BillingViews: Ed Finegold examined what Oracle’s acquisition of Tekelec means for the industry, why Netcracker is pulling off a string of contracts, such as Swisscom, Sprint, KDDI and SingTel and why good old Microsoft […]

Analytics

Is Social the Answer to Fight Fraud, Flatten Silos?

March 28, 2013 Alex Leslie 0

In recent months changes to the whole ‘social’ model have been hitting the headlines. Companies have been using Facebook and Twitter or similar platforms to improve the communication between teams. In some cases, the social […]

Billing Driven Opportunities

Does ‘contractless’ translate to ‘brainless’?

March 27, 2013 Tony Poulos 0

Data and voice plans without contracts have been around for years. In fact I can’t remember the last time I was on any mobile plan that involved a contract. These plans are usually very attractive […]

Cloud Billing

From Out of the Cloud – The Telecom Vendors Cometh!

March 26, 2013 Alex Leslie 1

My colleague Professor @finegold is currently putting in the hours defining exactly what we mean by the ‘Cloud’ billing. The range of definitions is vast – from basic subscription models for SMEs to what could […]

Analytics

What Oracle’s Acquisition of Tekelec Means

March 25, 2013 Edward Finegold 3

Oracle announced today that it will acquire network signalling control and policy management vendor Tekelec for an undisclosed amount. This follows on the heels of Oracle’s acquisition of Acme Packet, which fills a related and overlapping space […]

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In Depth

NetCracker, Swisscom, Sprint, KDDI, Singtel and a Tale of 16 Contracts

March 25, 2013 Edward Finegold 0

One of the realities of the OSS/BSS business is that CSPs are often reticent regarding their choices of supplier. Few want to be seen as publicly endorsing their own vendors, for a variety of reasons. […]

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News

BillingViews’ Pre-Awards Season BSS/OSS Honors

March 22, 2013 Edward Finegold 0

It is nearly that time when awards competitions, resembling middle school essay contests, are drummed up to push publications’ (and other institutions’) brands at a slew of industry events. So, in light of the forthcoming […]

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Analytics

Is Microsoft Excel the King of the Analytics Hill?

March 21, 2013 Edward Finegold 1

Despite the many advanced analytics tools coming to market across industries, it turns out that 76 percent of analysts use Microsoft Excel for their “self-serve” analytics projects. This is according to a new, cross-industry survey […]

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