The 5G economy is driven by major shifts in how digital services are delivered to market and consumed by customers. Adapting to these is critical to ensuring CSPs can maximize the return on their investment in 5G.
In order to effectively capture all new revenue...
The high cost of 5G deployment, coupled with an ongoing margin squeeze, means that CSPs are under pressure to finalise and validate the business case for deploying 5G networks. Setting the right approach and systems for extracting revenue from new, 5G-enabled, use cases is...
When consumers think of communications innovation, they tend to think of apps (Uber, Netflix) or smartphone vendors (Apple, Google). Few realize how much complex technology is behind the telecommunications networks that ensure those apps and phones work as advertised. Communication service providers (CSPs), for...
Communications giant Nokia knows a thing or two about building networks, keeping people connected, and the demands placed on communications service providers heading into our new, uncharted post-COVID future.
In our new reality, it is the time for real ideas and progressive thinking – not...
The true benefits of 5G will be realized with massive scale, something that operators will have to pay mightily to achieve. In carrier-led effort to shift network economics in their favor, the open RAN ecosystem has flourished in recent years and is poised for...
The U.S. Federal TRACED Act and an order from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have mandated that service providers must implement STIR/SHAKEN call authentication by June 30, 2021.
With this deadline looming, here’s what service providers need to know:
Implementation of STIR/SHAKEN is a multi-step...
In this age of sweeping digitalization and ubiquitous connectivity, enterprises face a constantly-changing set of challenges. Flexibility, responsiveness and product differentiation are imperatives and delivering dynamic, impactful services will determine winners and losers in this data-driven economy. A mega-trend that informs the trajectory of...
On the anniversary of 5G license issuance, China's 5G network construction has expanded rapidly, and more than 250 thousand 5G NRs have been built until now. The steady development of 5G network construction also accelerates the exploration and innovation of 5G-based applications. At the...
Few CSPs have successfully implemented Core network automation with the help of Network Services Descriptor over Orchestrator. Radio cloud is still in its early implementation phase. Now it is time to discuss Service level orchestration across multiple domains. This paper is an initiative to...
The programmability and flexibility of the 5G network will provide service providers with the opportunity to offer specialized services that address customer needs with more precision.
Network slicing, with its ability to support diverse services with specific performance or control requirements on a common network...
5G is here and it is redefining expectations - and rewriting standards - with regards to data processing requirements like volume, velocity and latency. The 5G revolution also creates new opportunities for CSPs roll out new revenue generating applications, transform their OSS/BSS systems, or...
The 5G revolution has begun and with it comes immense amounts of data at an unprecedented velocity that will fuel a wide range of data-driven services and digital business models. However, to capitalize on these new opportunities – and to succeed in the race...
This Appledore whitepaper shows how various operations functions fit together and how you can reduce the frequency of “re-invention”, by re-using both software and experience. It shows how CSPs can make 100:1 improvements in many cost and agility metrics and make agile innovation realistic.
And,...
The 5G telecommunications services market has an estimated value of $2 trillion worldwide. To claim their share, service providers need to adopt new ways of working that support novel business models built around the network as a platform for value creation. They need to...
Over the last couple of years, the drive toward network automation has gained momentum. Today it’s widely acknowledged that automation is essential to the success and effectiveness of future network operations—and it’s easy to see why. Communication service providers (CSPs) have reached a tipping...
Wired and wireless operators are juggling an unprecedented number of simultaneous transitions in their networks: from purpose-built hardware to virtualized network functions and software-defined networks; from highly manual processes to DevOps and automation, and ever-faster speeds across the network as a whole. Cable companies...
5G is opening-up a whole new world of business, not just for communication services providers (CSPs) but also for enterprises and the opportunities for growth are unprecedented. Nokia’s recent 5G maturity index (5GMi) study shows that more than 80% of the leading operators are...
5G is opening-up a whole new world of business, not just for communication services providers (CSPs) but also for enterprises and the opportunities for growth are unprecedented. Nokia’s recent 5G maturity index (5GMi) study shows that more than 80% of the leading operators are...
In 2018, with the commoditization of voice and data services firmly in the cards, the digital market appears to be the market of choice for communication service providers (CSPs) hoping to boost stagnating revenues. The problem is, in the digital market, the competition no...
As they face innovations in new services, rising customer expectations, and intense competition, operators look for fresh ways to obtain and deliver new efficiencies, better quality, new revenue, and a better customer experience. One way is by turning to data analytics. There is, however,...
Artificial Intelligence. The words themselves sound complex, and that may be off-putting to communications service providers (CSPs) struggling to determine how AI might help their business grow. There are so many questions for service providers. Why should you care about AI? Why now? What...
IBM report highlights service provider executives’ perspectives on blockchain
Although blockchain only recently made its way onto the telecom stage, communications service providers (CSP) executives are already expressing interest in the technology. That is at least the conclusion of a recent report by the IBM Institute...
5G wireless networks are going to usher in a new age of higher data rates, Industry 4.0, IoT devices, and driverless cars. To support the millions of devices invading our lives we must first take all of our supporting infrastructure to the next level....
Imagine your CSR or one of your dealers entering your system where a virtual assistant helps them fully know the customer, not missing a detail, while offering the best available product the customer can buy or reminding the CSR about an opportunity for a...
