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16 July, 2018
Most organisations agree communications are a vital asset – after all, no business can be productive if workers can’t talk to one another, writes Paul Clarke, the UK manager for 3CX.
05 July, 2018
If you happened to be one of Spotify’s investors, you’ll likely be smiling following the company’s US$27 billion debut on the US stock market. Long seen as the driving force behind the shift from purchasing music to streaming it, Spotify is one of many contemporary companies that depend on the infrastructure investments of global communications service providers (CSPs), without contributing to it. The same can be said of Netflix, currently valued at US$134 billion and growing. For CSPs, such services are a challenge, as they compete with their own services at the same time as depending utterly on their infrastructure for their success. So why should video games represent anything different, asks Javier Polo, the chief executive of PlayGiga?
05 July, 2018
With mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the telecoms, media and technology (TMT) market at an all-time high, according to research from Thomson Reuters, Mo Aneese, who works in the investment team at private equity firm, Livingbridge, tells George Malim that telecoms-related investments are now really about enabling cloud services.
26 June, 2018
We’re at a pivotal point in the European telecom industry, with many European PTTs planning to switch off ISDN and PSTN lines by the middle of the next decade, writes Bertrand Pourcelot, the director general of Centile Telecom Applications. BT will stop selling those lines in 2020 and will turn them off completely by 2025. Phase-out of ISDN by Swisscom and Deutsche Telekom is already happening, with Orange ceasing ISDN in 2020.
14 May, 2018
Traditionally, service providers built their own telecoms platforms, whether developing in-house or via an external vendor, writes Bertrand Pourcelot, the director general of Centile Telecom Applications.
01 May, 2018
In the first part of this article we looked at how findings from recent research undertaken by PGi, a dedicated provider of collaboration solutions, in conjunction with Mobile World Live, revealed a 70% decline in users accessing meetings via desk phones, writes Frank Paterno, the vice president of global carriers at PGi. We outlined how the smartphone is now the go-to device for UC&C services, underlining the increaing mobility of workers. In this article, we look at the significance of the findings with regard mobile network operators and their projected influence on the use of UC&C services on smartphones.
30 April, 2018
Recent research undertaken by PGi, a provider of collaboration solutions, in conjunction with Mobile World Live, the media arm of the GSMA, revealed a 70% percent decline in users accessing meetings via desk phones in the past five years, writes Frank Paterno, the vice president of global carriers at PGi. The report, entitled, “The Future of UC&C on Mobile,” highlights that nearly half (44%) of mobile industry respondents rank the smartphone as their chosen device for unified communication and collaboration (UC&C) services in the next few years.
09 April, 2018
As the workplace continues to evolve we see new technologies and services entering the business environment, writes Dave Ricketts, the head of marketing at Six Degrees. The office of the future is being shaped by factors such as flexible working hours, shared information, cloud technology and working from pretty much anywhere. So how can organisations that depend on voice, messaging, presence and collaboration, better utilise tech and services to support employee productivity, irrespective of location and what device they use?
29 January, 2018
Communications Service Providers (CSPs) are constantly faced with the twin challenges of controlling costs and the need to make constant adjustments to their networks through the introduction of new services, upgrades to existing elements and boosts to capacity and coverage. (more…)
02 October, 2017
London, UK. October 2, 2017: Infomedia, a global provider of Direct Carrier Billing (DCB), today announced further expansion into the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). (more…)
