Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of everything in the world of telecom software. Due to the shortened holiday week last week, this week’s collection of stories includes information from both last week and this week, so if you were busy with turkey and family last week, you can catch up on what happened. They say this time of year is one of giving and togetherness, and it looks like telecom software companies are taking it to heart. Companies like Metaswitch and Ixia announced new partnerships while Openwave and Harris Broadcast are acquiring smaller companies. T-Mobile US has also been in the news both here and abroad with both positive and negative developments. To read about these stories and more, please check out the links below:
- T-Mobile ‘software issue’ slows network speeds for around 9,000 customers.
- Verizon is deepening its commitment to mobile and online content delivery with the purchase of EdgeCast Networks.
- EdgeCast rival Akamai hopes to secure its future with the purchase of Prolexic.
- T-Mobile Czech Republic taps AmDocs for billing, charging.
- Velocent Systems and Ixia announced a partnership that will bring together the companies’ technologies to help customers accurately monitor mobile networks of any size.
- NetCracker transforms BSS and enhances content delivery for Israel’s yes satellite TV.
- Openwave Messaging has acquired Critical Path.
- Metaswitch has partnered with TeleStax, Inc., to jointly offer the RestComm application server with Project Clearwater, Metaswitch’s open-source IMS-in-the-cloud platform.
- Forsk announced the general availability of the new version 3.2.1 of Atoll, its leading radio planning & optimization software.
- Sandvine, a network solutions company, won a Tier 1 Latin American Mobile Operator Group.
- Harris Broadcast to acquire Imagine Communications to strengthen over-the-top (OTT) and TV everywhere capabilities.
- Deloitte recently conducted a global mobile survey that reflects apps saturation in the market, as well as potential for NFC to take off.
- Vodafone launched a mobile wallet software/service to make payments from NFC-enabled smartphones.
- Boku, Inc., the global leader in carrier billing and cross-platform mobile payments, announced the acquisition of India’s leader in direct carrier billing, Qubecell.
- CSG International has bought Volubill’s major assets.
- Visitors to the Pacific island of Samoa will get a boosted cell signal thanks to a new software solution from Squire Technologies and BlueSky Communications.
- Astellia announced the findings from its most recent piece of research commissioned by mobile insight specialist mobilesquared. It highlights the disconnect between customer data and operator decisions.
- Google confirms major camera software improvements are coming to Android.
- Apps are now outpacing bring your own device (BYOD) as top IT mobility priority.
- Redknee signed a multi-million dollar converged billing expansion in APAC.
- SK Telecom, NSN successfully complete Evolved Packet Core virtualization proof-of-concept.
