Expert Opinions

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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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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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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Digital transformation: What’s the new ‘new’?

Digital transformation has been a key driver in the telecoms business for the last two years or so, though as with so many trends and shifts in our industry, it’s

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From CSP to DSP – the next evolution of the service provider

Chris Newton-Smith is the chief marketing officer of Redknee. Here he tells George Malim how, as communications service providers (CSPs) transform to become digital service providers (DSPs), they are entering

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Bigger and faster isn’t necessarily better when it comes to data analytics

Data analytics and big data remains big business, of that there’s little doubt, writes Kevin Stanfield who warns that communications service providers (CSPs) should avoid being drawn into a data

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Data monetisation will enable an entire new digital ecosystem as it matures

As communications service providers (CSPs) grapple with monetising user and network data, there’s a danger of being overwhelmed by the barriers and losing out on the tremendous opportunity that is

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The power of conversation

I love my phone, I look at it 70-80 times a day, according to a survey I recently read, writes Alan Coleman. But when it comes to my network? The

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Programmable architectures give policy a key role in network control

Policy used to be a worthy but necessary capability that communications service providers (CSPs) relied upon to protect their networks. Now, the move to programmable network architectures through SDN and

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IoT and OTT bring new revenue maximisation opportunities for CSPs

Constant changes in the communications service providers (CSPs) domain, driven from increased competition and customer demand, mean services are now becoming more complex with a much wider array of offerings

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