Close your eyes and imagine: You’ve booked a trip to exotic Maheshwar, Madhya Pradesh, in India. Now, you need to book a hotel and choose between an authentic modern Indian-style hotel, a local hotel chain or a youth hostel. What would you choose and...
Real-time mobile enterprise
Real-time enterprise mobility is on the rise. Increasingly, businesses are looking to mobilize their employees, offering the opportunity to work remotely while providing more flexibility than ever before. With new statistics forecasting the market to be worth $510.39 billion by 2022, servicing...
Public-private partnerships will be a key component of meeting ICT-based sustainable development goals adopted by the United Nations, Ericsson CTO Ulf Ewaldsson told RCR Wireless News in an exclusive interview.
Ericsson, in conjunction with Columbia University's Earth Institute, conducted joint research highlighting the importance of ICT...
The expanding B/OSS software firm is bringing its unique take on the configure, price, quote process to the global communications service provider market.
As the communications service provider space becomes increasingly crowded and competitive, retaining customers and reducing churn are paramount to business success. With...
Unlike Apple or Microsoft, Ericsson is a company that is not in the consciousness of many mobile consumers. You won’t see adds for Ericsson on TV promoting its latest technology, but if you have a cell phone, there is a good chance it is...
Goal is to use network analytics to improve planning, efficiency and quality assurance
Major global communications service provider Telefónica is overhauling its operations support system using software solutions provided by VPIsystems.
Telefónica, which has some 340 million customers around the world, tapped VPIsystems to provide predictive...
Comverse touts digital messaging platform benefits of $245M deal
Comverse announced plans to acquire privately held Acision for approximately $245 million in a move to bolster its digital services business. U.K.-based Acision provides mobile messaging and engagement services, and is used by a number of...
Amdocs’ Network Rollout Solution provides end-to-end toolbox to increase Service Provider efficiency, agility and time to market
In an era of unprecedented growth in consumer demand for bandwidth, network operators have to quickly adapt to maintain a competitive edge in an increasingly saturated market. Gaining...
NICE, France – RCR Wireless News editorial team members provide a video recap of news coming out of the TM Forum Live telecom software exhibition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGI0wGMpgp8&feature=youtu.be
TM Forum is an industry trade association that brings together communications service providers and vendors to discuss the latest in...
NICE, France – As TM Forum Live draws to a close, it’s time to highlight some of the interesting discussions I had while navigating the event, which feels larger this year, and from what I’ve heard attendance is up. Big data and all forms...
NICE, France – RCR Wireless News editorial team members provide a video recap of news coming out of the TM Forum Live telecom software exhibition.
https://youtu.be/kbWNWDvbnCQ
TM Forum is an industry trade association that brings together communications service providers and vendors to discuss the latest in...
Networks need to transform to meet industry expectations presented by cloud computing
NICE, France – Cloud computing is transforming industries and now it’s incumbent on the telecom sector to transform networks to keep pace with expectations, Ericsson SVP and CTO Ulf Ewaldsson said during TM...
NICE, France – RCR Wireless News editorial team members provide a video recap of news coming out of the TM Forum Live telecom exhibition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPK9jJKilmQ&feature=youtu.be
TM Forum is an industry trade association that brings together communications service providers and vendors to discuss the latest in BSS/OSS,...
NFV’s ambition of zero touch could sound death knell for the customer call center
NICE, France – Business travelers know that activating international voice, text and data can be a frustrating – and expensive – process marked by protracted interactions with customer service reps. But it doesn’t...
On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check we talked with Thomas Vasen, subscriber experience evangelist at Procera Networks, and Gerry Donohoe, director of solutions engineering at Openet, about the impact network functions virtualization is having on policy and charging systems.
https://youtu.be/T7klZF6g8Ao
With virtualization already...
CANCUN, Mexico – To make mobile financial services succeed requires a win-win partnership between banks and mobile network operators, because assets from each one are needed.
On one side, banks contribute with regulatory compliance, an existing financial network and infrastructure and strong recognition, while mobile...
CANCUN, Mexico – The telecom industry is going through an extremely difficult period of change. As it moves to the digital experience, companies need to have the ability to leverage data in order to differentiate themselves. This was the main thrust of comments from...
Deal calls for NetCracker to update BSS in seven Telefónica markets
International telecom giant Telefónica selected NetCracker Technology to update its business support systems supporting seven Latin American operations.
The deal calls for NetCracker to implement a “large-scale, multi-phase BSS and customer experience transformation program” that...
I recently had the opportunity to meet with Alan Coleman, CEO of Brite:Bill to learn more about the company’s offering and its activities in Europe. Brite:Bill is 5 years old and the leaders believe that billing can be a differentiator for network operators.
Originally started as a...
Digital Telco Transformation announcement ahead of Mobile World Congress
To help telecom operators keep pace with the rapidly evolving digital world, Ericsson has announced new Digital Telco Transformation services, which combine systems integration with business consultation.
The idea is to enable telcos to monetize digital information,...
NFV has become a hot topic in the wireless telecom space, and this webinar will provide an update on how the NFV ecosystem is developing; how the NFV standards process is progressing with a focus on standards bodies; and look ahead to 2015 NFV deployment...
Editor’s Note: With 2015 now upon us, RCR Wireless News has gathered predictions from leading industry analysts and executives on what they expect to see in the new year.
If we’re honest, perspectives are mainly self-serving; you can trust vendors to anticipate a surge in...
It’s been a busy week for Amdocs with announcements related to carrier-grade Wi-Fi and quad-play acceleration.
Starting with the carrier-grade Wi-Fi announcement (covered by RCR Wireless in yesterday’s news edition), the focus was on an independent research report looking at the potential to transition from...
Editor’s Note: In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this Reader Forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible, but we maintain some editorial control...
