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About Alex Leslie
Alex was Founder and CEO of the Global Billing Association (GBA), a trade body focused on the communications sector. He is a sought after speaker and chairman at leading industry conferences, and is widely published in communications magazines around the world. Until it closed, he was Contributing Editor, OSS/BSS for Connected Planet.
Analytics

Turns out analytics is the answer

January 30, 2015 Alex Leslie 0

There are many problems that face telecoms operators today. Network congestion, investment challenges, dissatisfied customers, but probably the one that keeps CEOs awake at night is churn. Churn is proof positive that customers think that […]

Beyond Billing

Be afraid, its Data Protection Day

January 28, 2015 Alex Leslie 0

Today, and every 28th January for the last eight years, we celebrate Data Protection, or Privacy if you are in North America, Day. Celebrating may be a strange term to raise awareness of one of […]

Billing

Shopping today? It’s a blur

January 27, 2015 Alex Leslie 0

If there was any doubt that mobile devices are becoming the way to shop, then erase it from your mind. Statistics abound. According to Juniper Research, even some months ago, purchases via mobile devices will […]

Beyond Billing

Google goes boldly – virtually

January 26, 2015 Alex Leslie 3

There has been speculation recently that Google is already a communications provider, competing for the broadband accounts of a great swathe of customers in the US. It is also playing a game of chess in […]

News

Google moves in the payments game

January 22, 2015 Alex Leslie 0

While the focus has been firmly on Apple and the expectation is that it has the upper hand in the payments world, do not write off other players. The latest twist is rumoured to be […]

Beyond Billing

In mobile – Intel is outside

January 19, 2015 Alex Leslie 0

On the face of it, it would seem quite difficult for an industry giant to lose money in a fast growing market that generated $3.3 trillion in 2014. But Intel managed it. The ‘mobile technologies’ industry […]

Beyond Billing

IoT – the Regulator cometh

January 16, 2015 Alex Leslie 0

As the hype around IoT and IoST heats up and the whole arena motors up Gartner’s hype cycle of massive expectations, a couple of barriers loom on the horizon. One is regulation and the other […]

Beyond Billing

Passwords are irritating, we need something else

January 15, 2015 Alex Leslie 1

How many passwords do you have? It seems that the answer to this question is either ‘one’ or ‘I don’t know, too many.’ The problem, of course, is that we need to be vigilant and […]

Billing

Customers paying bills via mobile

January 13, 2015 Alex Leslie 0

When we focus on mobile we tend to lean towards payments – and rightly so, since NFC based payments will be worth $130 billion by 2020, according to Strategy Analytics. But a survey conducted by […]

Beyond Billing

What is communications anyway?

January 12, 2015 Alex Leslie 1

Facebook is fast becoming YouTube’s main competitor. The number of video posts showing up in users’ timelines is up 360 percent since this time last year. This is interesting but is already causing unforeseen problems. […]

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Recent Posts

  • Turns out analytics is the answer January 30, 2015
  • Personalized shopping reaches out to touch you January 29, 2015
  • Be afraid, its Data Protection Day January 28, 2015
  • Shopping today? It’s a blur January 27, 2015
  • India turns to corner shops, mobile phones for banking revolution January 27, 2015

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