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11 August, 2021

Which is a Robocall and Which is Not? Blocking the Right Calls

(Sponsored Feature) There’s nothing more annoying and disruptive than a robocall, and no matter what anti-spam solution you use, some robocalls always seem to get through.

In fact, unwanted voice traffic is the FCC’s top consumer complaint in the United States.

But the fight against robocalls recently hit a new milestone—June 30^th was the deadline for U.S. operators to implement STIR/SHAKEN or an alternative robocall mitigation program.

22 March, 2021

Fibocom Launches High Performance LTE-A Cat 12 Module FG101 Based on Qualcomm SDX12

Shenzhen China – March 18th 2021 – Fibocom (Stock Code: 300638), a leading provider of cellular embedded wireless module solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT), announced the global launch of high performance 4G LTE Advanced category 12 module FG101. Highly integrated with competitive cost advantages, FG101 is an optimized 4G LTE-A module designed to provide high-speed connectivity in applications like FWA, intelligent security, industry 4.0 and connected cars, etc.

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16 December, 2019

NTT Group chooses BearingPoint at digital transformation tipping point

Japanese operator NTT is continuing to execute on its strategy to promote the business-to-business-to-x (B2B2X) model with its selection of Bearing Point//Beyond to provide its Infonova digital business platform to modernise, simplify and unify its business support systems to better serve its customers, increase operational efficiency and grow new revenue, writes George Malim.

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28 August, 2019

Inside Swisscom’s mainframe replacement project

Mainframe replacement is a phrase that turns the blood to ice in the veins of most telecoms IT professionals but these ambitious projects are starting to happen with greater regularity as mainframes reach their fourth – and sometimes fifth – decade of operation and the cost of operating them starts outstrip the risk associated with replacement. VanillaPlus managing editor George Malim recently interviewed Markus Tschumper, the head of general IT services at Swisscom, to learn about the communications service provider’s recent migration of traditional mainframe workloads to the cloud, running on a software defined mainframe from LzLabs.

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29 May, 2019

Etiya wins TM Forum excellence award for disruptive innovation

Etiya, the leading software vendor providing AI-driven Digital BSS, comprehensive telco CRM , AI solutions, as well as customer analytics to CSPs, today announced that it was selected as a winner in the TM Forum Excellence Awards 2019. Etiya received the “Disruptive Innovation Award” for its work with Fizz, a completely digital mobile and internet sub-brand that provides an online customer experience for do-it-yourself smart digital consumers.

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12 March, 2019

DSP chooses Netcracker to aid CSP transformation

Yes, the headline is the right way around.

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04 March, 2019

2019: The Year of Public Cloud in Telecom

When it comes to the cloud, the telecom industry has been all talk and no action. A glance to our colleagues in the enterprise IT world shows us how far our industry is lagging behind in our transition to the public cloud. By moving large workloads to the public cloud, telcos can harness the single biggest innovation to come to IT application management in the last ten years, and with it reap massive cost savings. (more…)

04 February, 2019

It’s time to clean house in OSS/BSS in preparation for 5G

With standards approved, and with handsets and localised networks due to be deployed in the first half of 2019, 5G networks will soon be appearing all around the world, writes Michal Medrala, the head of OSS product management at Comarch.

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07 December, 2018

Ericsson apologises for telco service failures, identifies expired software certificate as main issue

Ericsson has issued a statement apologising to its customers and customers’ customers for causing a lengthy loss of all mobile data and some voice services yesterday. As we reported, a failure in Ericsson software deployed by O2 UK and SoftBank in Japan led to a day-long service outage on Thursday, December 6th.
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07 December, 2018

Huawei CFO arrested in Canada ‘at US request’, while Ericsson is blamed for O2 UK and Japan network fails

WEEK IN TELCO IT – Mainstream media outlets have been dominated in the last 24 hours by two telecoms-related news stories. As Jeremy Cowan reports, the China-based network systems giant, Huawei is demanding the release from detention in Canada of its CFO. Meanwhile, UK network operator O2, (more…)