Digital transformation

23 May, 2017

CSPs have just three years to tap into ISDN switch-off opportunities

Communications service providers (CSPs) are at risk of missing a golden opportunity from the switching-off of ISDN and PSTN lines in 2025, warns Paul Clarke, the UK manager of 3CX. According to Ofcom’s The Communications Market 2016 report, the number of ISDN lines in the UK stood at three million in 2015 but, when British Telecom stops selling new lines in 2020, a large proportion of the businesses using those lines will have no option but to explore IP-based communication. This in turn gives service providers the opportunity to open new revenue streams by offering businesses of every size, in every industry, the tools, services and support they need to modernise their communications. Time is running out for them to adapt and begin educating its customers. (more…)

11 May, 2017

Working with Net Neutrality: Clarity, Zero-rating and Win-Win Use Cases – White Paper

10 Use Cases to Drive New Opportunities

Recent court cases on zero rating have provided clarity on what is allowed within net neutrality. These changes open new opportunities for service providers to be creative in how they offer content services to their customers.

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10 use cases to increase customer and shareholder value
Service provider examples of innovative offers that meet existing net neutrality rules
How policy and charging provides the foundation for these innovative use cases

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ZTEsoft holds 5th annual summit in Nice to power digital transformation

April 21, 2017, Nanjing, China – ZTEsoft has announced that its Annual Summit will be held in Nice, France on May 18, 2017. This will be the company’s fifth Annual Summit and will bring together executives from major communication service providers (CSPs) and industry experts to collaborate on and learn more about the industry’s most pressing issues. (more…)

08 March, 2017

Amdocs introduces aia digital intelligence platform

Amdocs has launched aia, pronounced “i-yer”, a telecoms industry-specific digital intelligence platform that implements business logic to automate and modernise a service provider’s business. The platform combines Amdocs’ domain expertise in managing business processes with state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities from global partners, including cognitive computing services from the IBM Watson platform. (more…)

21 February, 2017

Three Group selects MATRIXX Software for digital transformation

Three Group has selected MATRIXX Software’s real-time Digital Commerce platform to support its mobile operators in the UK, Denmark and Sweden.

The Three Group companies will deploy MATRIXX Digital Commerce as part of their digital business transformation from providing voice and data access to offering a full suite of digital services. (more…)

20 January, 2017

As network operators invest in mobile video, can vendors tempt them with AI and sprawling security solutions?

In Part 1 of this article yesterday, we reported on Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan’s expectations for the year ahead. They predicted NFV-based virtual network services would gain traction in 2015 but it truly hit last year. (more…)

20 January, 2017

Tell me some good news, Doc!

Telcos are struggling with IT transformation. It’s not News. The world and their Granny know that communication service providers (CSPs) face tough times. Voice and messaging revenues have fallen off a cliff as subscribers turn to Skype, Messenger, WhatsApp – or almost anywhere that’s free. Yet Subscribers still want new Telco services, and expect them […]

19 January, 2017

Into the Fog: Stratecast previews a health-conscious year ahead for network operators

Each year we receive a report listing Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan‘s predictions for the year ahead, and each year it contains elements to make us think. 2017 is no exception. The report runs in two parts, today and tomorrow, starting with Big Data and Analytics, Business Communication Services, and Cloud Services.