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Volaris acquires MDS Global to add to telecoms software portfolio

  BSS provider MDS Global has been acquired by Volaris Group, the operating group of Constellation Software, in a twelfth acquisition by the company in the Communications and Media vertical.

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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

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Oz-based Hansen Tech snaps up Sigma to build create-sell-deliver software for telcos, media and high-tech companies

Global provider of catalogue-driven software, Sigma Systems, announced today that it is being acquired by Hansen Technologies for an undisclosed sum. Hansen is a specialist in billing, data management and customer care solutions for the energy,

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DSP chooses Netcracker to aid CSP transformation

Yes, the headline is the right way around.

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CSPs still missing out on billing communications blackspot finds BriteBill survey

Although only 40% of communications service provider (CSP) customers look at their bills regularly this still presents millions of customers for most providers and this channel of communication is not

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AI is already delivering savings in the fight against fraud

Every business today is facing a host of new threats in the communications world. Telecoms service providers are no different, and the growing challenge that is VoIP and toll fraud

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Will mobile operators cash-in on cashless?

Over the course of human history, the way people have exchanged money has evolved dramatically, writes Meg Bear, the senior vice president of Product and Engineering of Juvo. From bartering

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Roam like at home – one year on

LTE data roaming within the EU radically increased last year, with traffic volumes over the summer up to eight times larger than the same period in 2016, writes Mikaël Schachne,

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Are mobile transactions the backbone of a seamless customer experience?

The modern consumer is an ever-changing force that is taking control of the payments industry, writes Robert Murphy, the head of Customer Service & Logistics at Chip & PIN Solutions,

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Operators can avoid repeating past mistakes to participate in an open IoT ecosystem

The history of the telecoms industry is littered with failed attempts to own new market opportunities. However, in the Internet of Things (IoT) operators can be enablers of an open

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