Billing
Building a better business case
You can tell the state of our industry by the number of three letter acronyms that are doing the rounds at conferences. Right now, our industry is in fine fettle. M2M, SDN, NFV are all […]
Month: October 2013
Beyond Billing
What have NFC and connected cars got in common?
As if to prove Peter Cochrane’s (and our own) thesis that large companies cannot innovate, ISIS and their fixation with NFC for payments is looking more and more like a car crash in slow motion. […]
Beyond Billing
Subex user conference leverages assets
Dublin played host to this year’s Subex User Conference and it should be proud. The industry seems to have embraced the User Group as an alternative to the ‘independent’ conference and rightly so. The commercial […]
Billing
Open Letter to Gartner
Dear Gartner Your consultancy is well known and well respected in the communications industry. Operators consult you and vendors respect, even fear, you. When you produced your IRCM Magic Quadrant last year, we found some […]
Interviews
Ian Sparkes from Swisscom on real-time charging
Ian Sparkes is Swisscom’s architect for real-time charging. He shares his company’s experiences installing a strategic real-time charging platform starting with addressing the pain points, like bill shock, and how they plan to manage the […]
Featured
OMG – It’s a LDO!
Hey look, a new acronym – this time LDO – which stands for Lean Digital Operator. At the recent ETIS gathering in Riga, Telecom Italia’s strategy director outlined the future business drivers for operators and […]
Billing
Jim Morrish from Machina Research talks M2M
Telcos are having to reach outside their traditional markets for growth. M2M is an option. It typically doesn’t use a lot of data but it involves a lot of new relationships and this could be […]
Beyond Billing
IDC’s Mark Winther talks data monetization
Monetizing data is a real challenge. Operators are starting to get more sophisticated marketing refined products. Tiered data plans are great for customers and operators but bring their own set of problems to administer. Real-time, […]
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Vodafone versus Kroes – Seconds away, round three!
You might remember that it was meant to be July 2014 when roaming would begin to be a thing of the past in Europe. When this date was pushed back, we thought it was likely […]
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Social network becomes MVNO
Whilst most mobile network operators might aspire to become as popular as social networking sites, the exact opposite has happened in Spain. The country’s most popular social site, tuenti, became an MVNO and has never […]