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Month: June 2013

Analytics

OTT Players Erode Telco Revenues – But are they Friend or Foe

June 28, 2013 Alex Leslie 0

My presentation at the ETIS Billing Working Group in Krackow. My theme – the choices that face telecoms operators as Over the Top players erode their revenues. From SMS to video, telcos revenues are under […]

Cloud Billing

Cloud Billing: Is Simpler Better? The Debate Rages On

June 26, 2013 Edward Finegold 0

From the Archives The Cloud that Billing now inhabits is a funnel cloud; spinning fast, throwing debris about, and creating chaos. The debate over simplicity versus sophistication resurfaces constantly, and there’s no right answer. The […]

Payments
Billing

Can Cable Providers Monetize Second-Screen Experiences?

June 24, 2013 Edward Finegold 0

There was an awful lot of sexy new navigation technology demonstrated at this year’s Cable Show and it seems there’s a new gesture on the scene – “the fling.” This is a simple upward swipe […]

News

Doubts Linger Over Mobile Broadband Readiness

June 21, 2013 Alex Leslie 0

This article was first published by Tony Poulos on the TM Forum’s Digital Services Initiative Research from WeDo Technologies’ annual worldwide customer event, held recently in Braga, Portugal, has revealed that well over half (57 […]

News

Proposed Tax on Mobile Transfers Spells Trouble Ahead

June 20, 2013 Kelly Martin 0

Reports out of Uganda suggest the government has plans to impose a ten percent levy on all money transfers sent via a mobile device.  This hefty tariff is the government’s response to closing a fiscal […]

Policy Management
Billing

Should we Unify Policy & Charging and Does 3GPP Help or Hurt? (Part 3)

June 20, 2013 Edward Finegold 0

In part 3 (of 3) of this series on policy & charging (see part 1 here, part 2 here) , I asked Matrixx’s Nigel Back “Can we trick 3GPP processes into allowing us to be […]

Billing

Billing Bottleneck Drives $1.7 billion Convergent Charging Market

June 19, 2013 Alex Leslie 0

Finally it seems as if the growth of new services is pushing operators to invest in convergent charging systems. A report just published by research house Infonetics puts the figure for 2012 at $1.7 billion. This […]

NFC

Apparently NFC Takes Off – but Where is it Going?

June 19, 2013 Alex Leslie 0

According to Berg Insight smartphones with NFC chips in them increased by 300 percent in 2012. Excellent. 140 million of them were shipped and Berg thinks that by 2017 there will be a billion units […]

Revenue Assurance

Revenue Assurance – Still not ‘Built In’

June 18, 2013 Alex Leslie 2

From the Archives…now even more relevant as Real Time becomes the norm. Inaccurate billing and criminal activity – no they are not the same thing – lost the mobile industry $58.4 billion in 2011, according […]

News

Is There A Future for Bank Branches?

June 13, 2013 Jonathan Jensen 0

A few weeks ago my local branch of HSBC received a major refurbishment. What intrigued me about this is that in our increasingly technology centric world HSBC still thinks it’s worthwhile spending money on its […]

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