European ferry operator Stena Line is working with Hitachi to review its digital operations and smarten-up its fleet with artificial intelligence (AI). The pair will combine to review Stena Line’s existing digital architecture, and formulate a transformation strategy to make Stena Line the “world’s...
Japan-based Toyota has taken a stake in data analytics firm ALBERT, also from Japan, to bring new artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies in house, and develop its own autonomous driving capabilities.
Toyota said the pair have struck a “business alliance” that will see...
Swiss engineering conglomerate ABB is to splash €100 million on a new innovation and training campus at the home of Austria-based automation systems manufacturer B&R. It is the largest internal investment ABB has ever made in industrial automation. The new campus will develop technologies...
The hype surrounding the potentially transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) on the telecoms industry is impossible to ignore. AI was the talk of the town at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, again, at the end of last month, as...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a crucial sub-text in the evolution of LTE and IoT networks. The deployment of AI-driven applications among the carrier community is limited so far.
“We are at the beginning,” says Luc Bretones, executive vice president of the France-based Orange’s Technocentre...
The categorization of artificial intelligence (AI) in telecoms can be cut any number of ways. Spanish telecoms group Telefónica identifies four business needs: in business optimization, market insights, customer engagement, and business innovation. Francisco José Montalvo, director of its ‘fourth platform’ business, says these...
The telecoms industry is heavily invested the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) based technologies. “The telecoms network is the basis for the outbreak of AI, and AI will greatly enhance the telecoms network,” comments Zhang Sihong, chief engineer of AI...
Digital-first companies, such as Amazon, Netflix, Google, and Facebook, have, in some ways, perfected the art of data and analytics — using data to drive business decisions. It is increasingly hard to compete against these providers without integrating analytics into critical business practices. The...
U.S. Cellular is putting in place a comprehensive big data architecture and strategy for its business, with a deployment that has already begun and is focused on correlating network data with customer sentiment in order to predict and improve the customer experience, and shape...
Predictive maintenance improved timeliness and customer satisfaction
Finnish railway operator VR Group has implemented SAS Analytics to get predictive maintenance capabilities in order to provide punctual travel service and improve customer satisfaction.
The Finnish state-owned railway operator said it is key to use the data that...
A conversation with Anssi Tauriainen, Director of Service Assurance and Analytics, EXFO
The below is only a summary. Download a transcript of the complete interview and access the complete report "Mastering Analytics: How to benefit from big data and network complexity"
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In this conversation with Anssi Tauriainen, the...
Wireless networks have been an outstanding success, exceeding expectations multiple times. Over the last few decades, performance and coverage have improved tremendously, and we increasingly rely on wireless connectivity to keep in touch with each other, to be informed and entertained, and to carry...
A conversation with Robert Laliberte, VP Marketing, Empirix
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How can mobile operators deal with all the data that they...
Operators finally have the tools they need to optimize their networks in real time and, in doing so, to increase the efficiency of network resources and improve subscribers’ QoE.
To do so, they need to gain a deeper understanding of how their networks work,...
A conversation with Kyle Ownbey, Product Manager at TEMS GeoBase, InfoVista
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Analytics is very hot topic right now, as...
A conversation with Caroline Chan, General Manager, 5G Infrastructure Devision, Network Platform Group, Intel
The below is only a summary. Download a transcript of the complete interview and access the complete report "3.5 GHz: Assessing technology, deployment options and business models" when it publishes on in July.
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With the...
A conversation with Caroline Chan, Vice President and General Manager, 5G Infrastructure Division, Network Platform Group, Intel
The below is only a summary. Download a transcript of the complete interview and access the complete report "Mastering Analytics: How to benefit from big data and network complexity."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzpn_IxU6fQ&feature=youtu.be
With the evolution...
Operators finally have the tools they need to optimize their networks in real time and, in doing so, to increase the efficiency of network resources and improve subscribers’ QoE. But to do so, they need to gain a deeper understanding of how their networks...
Vendors increase support for AI, analytics, 5G
A number of product launches this week aim to help operators navigate an increasingly software-centric world by better leveraging their networks and moving toward becoming digital businesses.
At TM Forum, Netcracker made its most recent platform release with the launch...
Communication service providers need to simplify and rationalize their service assurance systems across all networks - mobile and fixed, enterprise and IT/data center - so that they can be maintained at peak performance and maximize the utilization of the network resources. As a consequence...
As service providers look to virtualization and cloud services to provide new flexibility and revenue streams, the evolution of the network presents new challenges for monitoring and troubleshooting.
“Everybody is looking at cloud services and also virtualization, so there’s huge opportunities there for lower...
The internet and greater use of IoT are set to be significant pieces of technology altering innovation and how people interact with the world.
Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Reality Check section is where C-level executives and advisory firms from across...
Rapid advancements in cloud, mobility, artificial intelligence and networks are set to alter the UC market.
Editor’s Note: With 2017 now upon us, RCR Wireless News has gathered predictions from across the mobile telecommunications space on what they expect to see in...
Pokémon Go was a phenomenon with repercussions still being felt throughout the mobile telecom space in terms of security, information management and AR.
I have a confession. Temptation got the better of me. It happened on July 6. Yes, I was amongst the...
