automation

07 November, 2019

Huawei re-affirms European market commitment, says no Berlin Wall needed in digital world

Huawei has emphasised its commitment to the European market at its Innovation Day and eco-Connect Europe events held in Paris, France this week, writes George Malim. The company revealed research from Oxford Economics that totals its contribution to the European economy as €12.8bn per year, taking into account direct contributions through its 13,300 employees in the region, taxation and its €6.6bn spending in Europe plus the spending and taxation of those employed in its supply chain.

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28 October, 2019

Hands up who’s making money in 5G? And who’s not?

A WEEK IN TELCO IT – 5G is starting strong, says Huawei. The company’s deputy chairman, Ken Hu, told its annual Mobile Broadband Forum (#MBBF) in Zurich, Switzerland last week that 5^th Generation mobile communications “arrived faster than expected,” and that there are now 40 carriers in more than 20 countries supporting 136 different 5G-enabled devices. (more…)

09 October, 2019

Deutsche Telekom Germany selects Netcracker for network and service automation initiative

Netcracker Technology reports it has been chosen by Deutsche Telekom Germany for its groundbreaking network and service automation initiative. (more…)

27 June, 2019

AWS launches aggregation service for security alerts from disparate sources and runs continuous compliance checks

Amazon Web Services Inc., an Amazon.com company, has announced the general availability of AWS Security Hub, a service that gives customers a central place to manage security and compliance across an AWS environment. (more…)

24 June, 2019

AT&T and Colt claim first implementation of MEF’s LSO Sonata APIs to automate network ordering

AT&T and Colt Technology Services have completed the first application of MEF’s LSO (Lifecycle Service Orchestration) Sonata APIs, allowing business customers to order services across multiple carriers virtually seamlessly. (more…)

31 May, 2019

Customer engagement and experience specialist Content Guru appoints Janes as new chief people officer

The cloud Customer Engagement & Experience solutions provider, Content Guru, has hired a new chief people officer. (more…)

30 May, 2019

Executives and IT must collaborate to define 5G business cases, says Deutsche Telekom’s Meijer

With 5G at the centre of mobile operators’ strategies, the challenge is to avoid another cycle of intense infrastructure investment which enables the business cases of other organisations. Instead, operators need to take up a new role that monetises the enablement they provide and places them in the connected ecosystem as more than the providers of connectivity.

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28 May, 2019

Ryder Systems joins Mavenir business messaging ecosystem

Ryder Systems has joined Mavenir’s Rich Communications Service (RCS) Business Messaging Ecosystem. Paul Haworth, managing director and founder at Ryder Systems says, “We see RCS as the next big thing in messaging.” (more…)

22 May, 2019

Telefónica’s AURA turns artificial intelligence into real, enhanced customer experiences

Huge excitement surrounds the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in the telecoms industry as communications service providers (CSPs) look to operate more effectively and provide richer, automated experiences to customers. The theory’s sound but talk is cheap so it was refreshing for George Malim to speak to Telefónica executives José Ramón Gómez Utrilla and Irene Gómez at Digital Transformation World in Nice, France.

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14 May, 2019

Why would you outsource your brain, asks Axiata’s analytics chief?

A retired professor of artificial intelligence, 11 companies in eight countries, a commitment to open source technologies and an appetite to enable automation may not at first appear to be the ideal ingredients for a group-wide data analytics function but that’s what Axiata has created with its Axiata Analytics business unit. George Malim reports from Digital Transformation World, in Nice, France.

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