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20 September, 2018In wake of OpenSignal’s recent analysis of the 3G and 4G consumer experience on Vodafone, T-Mobile, Tele2 and KPN in the Netherlands – titled: State of Mobile Networks Netherlands, George Malim spoke to Peter Boyland, an analyst at the firm.
30 August, 2018Sometimes communications service providers (CSPs) are accused of lacking care when it comes to their customers. Mobile providers especially seem to fare badly in polls of which sectors have the worst customer service. But I don’t believe that it’s lack of care that causes telco customer churn, it’s a lack of customer understanding, says Dr Dorian Selz, the chief executive of Squirro.
21 August, 2018Brand loyalty is achieved through emotion and trust, says Frederic Durand, the chief executive and founder of Diabolocom.
14 August, 2018Amdocs has announced a new collaboration with Amazon Web Services to enable Globe Telecom, one of the Philippine’s largest telecommunications providers, to deliver cloud-based intelligent customer engagement. Under the multi-year service agreement, Amdocs will assist Globe in modernising its IT operations across several lines of the operator’s business. The vendor will focus on delivering enhanced customer experience across all Globe’s customer touchpoints and will introduce capabilities including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Here, Rebecca Eclipse, the chief customer experience officer at Globe Telecom, provides further details of the deployment.
06 August, 2018Think back to when you opened your first bank account. Chances are, you’re still with that same bank as more people get divorced than switch bank provider, writes Brian Andrews the senior CX principal at Medallia.
18 July, 2018Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are two technologies that are making a huge impact on virtually every industry, writes Brendan Gill, the chief executive of OpenSignal. Smart tools are being used by organisations across the globe – within current hardware and software – to improve both the decision making and automation processes.
11 July, 2018LTE 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, the vice president of the mobile data business at BICS. The trigger? Roam like at home (RLAH).
04 July, 2018It’s easy to fear for the loss of the human touch when it comes to customer experience (CX) these days, writes Ryan Lester, the director of customer engagement technologies at LogMeIn.
07 June, 2018The first pre-standard launches of 5G are due toward the end of 2018, writes Scott Sumner, the vice president of strategy at end-to-end network and application performance experts Accedian. However, standardised 5G will probably not arrive globally and at scale until 2021-2022. In the meantime, operators are upgrading their existing LTE networks to 4.5G.
01 June, 2018Artificial intelligence (AI) is rarely far from the headlines these days. While the technology isn’t new, the hype that surrounds it has reached fever pitch – we’re constantly hearing about the latest AI-based innovation transforming its industry. Little wonder then that organisations of all stripes are rushing to implement their own AI solutions, keen to realise the benefits it promises, writes Ravi Palepu, the global head of telco solutions at Virtusa.
