Why service assurance and analytics is essential to support the growing Narrow Band IoT service revolution

There are likely to be many millions of Narrow Band IoT (NB-IoT) devices, with numbers expected to soon exceed those of personal mobile devices, so NB-IoT service opportunities are expected

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Why the telecoms industry must get a grip on the Internet of Things

Establishing a solid telecoms network that can cope with the capacity and coverage required to power the Internet of Things (IoT) is a serious challenge telecoms companies need to address

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Ready, aim, fire – CSPs must put individual users at the centre of the digital value chain

User lifecycle management enables robust digital identity to put every individual user at the centre an increasingly digital communications service provider experience, Gemini Waghmare, the chief executive of UXP Systems

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Was the big bang big data plan simply too much information for CSPs to take?

There are no dumb pipes any more, neither in telecoms or the industries its infrastructures were likened to. In fact, there is an argument to be made that the thought

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Automation and machine intelligence hold the keys to a customer-aware operations function

The new service operations landscape encapsulates a series of technological and organisational changes to which communications service providers (CSPs) are transitioning. Analytics will play a vital role in enabling automation

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Big data initiatives must provide quantifiable business value

Big data analysis is easy to talk about but hard to bring to life with measurable impact, Vic Bozzo tells VanillaPlus.

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Yahoo! fails to explain delayed news of 500m data hack, as questions mount on Verizon sale

Following news that internet service provider Yahoo!’s 2014 data breach was far more serious than previously thought, with more than 500 million records stolen, there has been a rush to condemn

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What will Sabio spend its €35m warchest on? CEO Roberts talks to VanillaPlus

Customer contact specialist Sabio recently secured a multi-million pound investment from UK-based growth investor, Lyceum Capital. The company now plans to grow through acquisitions for which it has raised £30

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Why solving device interoperability is critical to the success of VoLTE

VoLTE has already proven to be a success, at least in terms of market penetration, writes Robert Eriksson. An ever-growing number of communications service provider (CSPs) have deployed VoLTE as

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Operators now ‘more aggressive’ in offering new services to enterprises

“We saw a gap in the telecoms market in 2011.” Tanya Cheng of Huawei is talking exclusively to VanillaPlus in Shenzhen, China at the Huawei Analyst Summit 2016 (HAS2016). 

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