50% of smartphone users in China will make mobile payments by 2020
A total of 195.3 million mobile users in China will be making proximity mobile payments this year, an increase of more than 45% compared to the previous year, according to a recent study...
With Ericsson and Nokia, AT&T 5G trials focus on millimeter wave, system architecture
As carriers around the world work through "5G" trials ahead of targeted standardization in 2020, AT&T and vendor partners reached a lab milestone in addition to expanding focus to include system architecture...
Policy control and increased reliance on automation seen as key operational goals for AT&T ECOMP initiative
AT&T continues to tout the abilities of its enhanced control, orchestration, management and policy project, known as ECOMP, with the latest link connected to policy management.
Jen Yates, assistant VP...
With partner M1, Apple Pay is available through five banks in the Asian country
Singapore mobile operator M1 launched digital wallet service Apple Pay for its mobile customers in the country, following on the heels of rival StarHub, which launched the service last month.Â
The operator...
Telecom market finding open API design models bring new opportunities, allow for more robust competition against new market entrants
As the telecommunications market continues its march toward greater software control, operators are increasingly turning to application program interface to drive greater efficiency from those platforms.
The...
On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we speak with Versa Networks to discuss the importance of testing and interoperability for NFV and SDN
As the telecom market continues its drive towards virtualizing network operations, one of the more common concerns we hear from operators are...
U.S. firm aims to complete the data center transactions in 2016
U.S.-based Digital Reality, which provides data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, entered into a definitive agreement with Equinix to acquire a portfolio of eight carrier-neutral data centers across Europe. Five of the data center...
NICE, France – In its role as a aggregator of industry information and technology, TM Forum has developed a set of open application programming interfaces, which have gained traction with carriers around the world. APIs are designed to create the foundation for diverse sets...
LONDON – For a company that only sprang to life less than four years ago, New Hampshire-based startup Parallel Wireless has been blazing a trail across the small cell industry, and a company officials says self-optimizing networks is key. While the company’s heterogeneous network gateway...
If the maturing mobile industry is young in relative terms, then the small cells market is in its teenage years and facing those troublesome growing pains. But, if it’s possible to be a veteran of such a young industry, then Ip.access and its CTO...
Enterprise devops tools are quickly gaining interest as companies look to streamline their operations and gain efficiency
Enterprises are increasingly turning to development operations models in order to drive further efficiency across their organization. But, to make these devops moves requires having tools and processes...
NICE, France – Continuing its commercialization of "5G"-oriented products, Nokia released its NetAct Cloud management system, which it said can be deployed in variable data center configurations to help cut cost and speed deployment time.
Peter Patomella, VP of network management and self organizing networks for...
NICE, France – Continuing its commercialization of "5G"-oriented products, Nokia released its NetAct Cloud management system, which it said can be deployed in variable data center configurations to help cut cost and speed deployment time.
Peter Patomella, VP of network management and self organizing networks for...
ONUG said the launch shows commitment in supporting transition to open software-defined infrastructure
The Open Networking User Group moved on its first collaborative effort to launch a set of initiatives it said are focused on open IT frameworks and mark its commitment to help support...
5g, 4g, SDN, NFV, Small Cells – what is a common requirement for the success of each of these? Reliable, scalable, performance driven backhaul. Tier1 Cell carriers have recently added new technical and service level mandates for backhaul. These specifications highlight the structural shift...
Despite growth, Vodafone plans to shut down the M-Pesa service in South Africa on June 30
Vodafone Group said it recently passed 25 million active customers for its M-Pesa mobile money service M-Pesa, having hit 25.3 million users at the end of March. The carrier...
As BSS/OSS blend, 'mass personalization' is key, Ericsson says
NICE, France – Customer experience is a function of rapid, personalized service offerings, said Ove Anebygd, VP of OSS/BSS for Ericsson, to members of the media during a session at this week's TM Forum Live event.
Digital...
A new report from the Small Cell Forum titled "HetNet and SON Foundations" includes a poll of tier-one and tier-two operators, two-thirds of whom indicated heterogeneous networks would be "very important" or "critical" to business objectives through 2020.
The survey, conducted by Rethink Technology Research...
Comptel partners with Telefónica, Orange on NFV, virtualization for TM Forum Live catalysts
NICE, France – Competition from over-the-top players leveraging massive cloud operations to quickly bring services to market is forcing telcos to look to virtualization, automation and new business models to maintain competitiveness....
NICE, France – The days of just monitoring network performance metrics to gauge overall performance have given way to much more consumer-facing indicators designed to go beyond service assurance and into gauging customer experience. This trend toward evaluating how the end-user experiences network services...
Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, emphasizes artificial intelligence, machine learning
Google is investing big in artificial intelligence and machine learning, which will set the stage for a transition from mobile-first to AI-first as devices fade away, Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a recent post to...
A mobile network should draw lessons from cloud providers to adapt to new traffic, application and service demands that threaten to destabilize quality of experience, and limit opportunities for growth.
Although trends are emerging, MNOs are still unsure how applications (video, IoT, wearables, etc.) will impact...
On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we look at some of the top news from across the space over the past week and speak with Red Hat on evolving storage needs for cloud infrastructure
Verizon this week claimed it recently completed the industry’s largest known...
AT&T countered recent claims by Verizon of being part of the largest OpenStack deployments, though welcomed its rival to the ecosystem
AT&T looks to have taken exception to a claim by rival Verizon Communications regarding the size of a recent OpenStack-powered cloud development.
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