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12 December, 2018
After a decade of exponential growth in technology, rapidly shifting consumer expectations and extreme competition, you’d forgive some telecoms operators for feeling a bit breathless, writes Alex Saric, a smart procurement expert at Ivalua.
11 December, 2018
Maintaining privacy and freedom in an ultra-connected era is one the key elements in restoring trust in the internet, writes Stefano Pileri, the CEO of Italtel.
11 December, 2018
Brands are continuously looking for ways to interact and engage with their customers, writes Nick Lane, the chief insight analyst of Mobilesquared, particularly in an age when consumers have less time to make informed decisions and are increasingly more sceptical around a company’s advertising.
Permitted Development Rights have been the cornerstone of public telecoms infrastructure for over thirty years. They allow for the speedy, national deployment of critical telecoms network infrastructure, without the excessive delays of the regular planning system. One can only imagine the cost and consequences if these rights – or code powers – hadn’t existed when the UK’s mobile network was rolled out in the 1990s and before, writes Ashley Smatt, the chief executive and founder of Maximus Networks.
04 December, 2018
As customer expectations drive demand for round-the-clock service and near-immediate response times, businesses have understandably sought to automate their customer communication offerings wherever possible, writes Omar Javaid, the chief product officer at Vonage.
21 November, 2018
We all know what happens when there’s a monopoly. Regardless of industry or product, consumers have limited – or no – choice, and end up paying whatever the suppliers in the monopoly dictate, writes Nick Johnson, the chief executive of Evolving Networks.
20 November, 2018
Within the next fifteen years, all specialised professions will be automated by artificial intelligence (AI), writes Charles Towers-Clark, the group chief executive of Pod Group. This technological shift will bring radical change to the workplace and make the vast majority of jobs redundant. But, just as with previous industrial revolutions, these new technologies will pave the way for a whole new wave of sectors and jobs too.
16 November, 2018
Consumers taking control of their personal data has been a central theme of 2018, and not only in the many discussions around the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), writes Chad Wollen, the chief marketing officer of Smartpipe. Although it may seem to many that this topic peaked with the arrival of the new data laws on the 25 May, it is only the beginning.
09 November, 2018
The author is Fu Jianjun, CMO of Whale Cloud.
“It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place”, this is a dialogue between Alice and the Red Queen in the film Alice in Wonderland and also perfectly depicts today CSPs’ status quo. (more…)
07 November, 2018
A substantial percentage of the world, especially broadband-demanding millennials, live in multi-dwelling units (MDUs). The European Commission has proposed all European households should have access by 2025 to networks offering at least 100Mbps download speeds and upgradable to one gigabit, leading to a competitive Gigabit Society. With nearly 40% percent of the EU population living in MDUs, there are numerous and lucrative opportunities for network building to meet EU goals and real-world millennial desires for broadband services, writes Ronan Kelly, the chief technology officer for EMEA and APAC at Adtran.
