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Outsourcing Roaming is about more than Business Process, or Cost Re-engineering. It is about Business Optimization

In conjunction with network and device technology developments, MNOs also need to consider how their business models will need to evolve to cope with future developments. There is a continuing

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Roaming in a Regulated World

A developing trend in the mobile communications industry is the reduction of roaming fees across land borders. Recent developments in the Iberian peninsula (Spain/Portugal), agreement between the regulatory authorities of

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Wholesale Roaming – It’s All About the Margins

For mobile network operators (MNOs), the mobile roaming environment is defined by increasing complexity and ever decreasing margins. To manage this difficult environment requires more comprehensive information with which to

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AT&T to Give Keynote on Cloud Trends at Parallels Summit (Feb 24)

Ebrahim Keshavarz, AT&T Vice President of Small Business Product Management, will present: “The Cloud Opportunity – A Communications Service Provider Perspective” at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, February 24th at Parallels

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Introducing the Cloud Service Provider Blueprint

There can be no doubt that cloud computing has arrived and will define the IT landscape for at least the next decade, perhaps forever, but how can current and future

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Move over ‘Bill Shock’ – It’s time for Consumer Confidence

Roaming bill shock among individual subscribers in the consumer segment is usually caused by a lack of understanding about roaming data usage charges and how these charges are applied. 

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The Customer, The Network, The Bottom Line

After hearing from some of this year’s exhibiting BSS / OSS companies ahead of the event, VanillaPlus reports on the most likely discussions to arise at MWC 2011. And the

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The next frontier in telecom OSS/BSS

Communication service providers (CSPs) have long talked about achieving better ‘business synergy’ through greater cross-departmental co-ordination and sharing of data. Unfortunately ‘synergy’ never seems to get a high enough priority.

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Hot or not, Barcelona beckons

As Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2011 comes around again with the speed and subtlety of an oncoming train, boardrooms, R&D labs and marketing departments worldwide are burning the midnight oil

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A question of clicks

With the massive penetration of mobile phones, it was thought that by now mobile advertising would have taken off in a similar way as advertising on the internet did a

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