Policy

01 August, 2016

Openet enables in-car WiFi for Orange Slovakia

Openet has enabled an innovative, new in-car Wi-Fi service for Orange Slovakia. The new solution extends the existing Openet and Orange Slovakia relationship enabling seamless connectivity via Wi-Fi to the Orange Slovakia mobile network. Orange Slovakia now supports multiple devices connected to different content via a single in-car router, enhancing efficient entertainment, information and navigation services to in turn enhance the customer experience. (more…)

28 April, 2016

Openet deploys 3GPP RAN congestion awareness function

Openet has deployed what it claims is the world’s first 3GPP RAN Congestion Awareness Function (RCAF) for a tier 1 North American CSP.  (more…)

12 April, 2016

Hi3G selects DigitalRoute MediationZone

DigitalRoute’s MediationZone product is being deployed by 3 in Sweden and Denmark, which trades under the Hi3G brand, to support the launch of the company’s Wi-Fi calling service across the two countries’ domestic markets. (more…)

15 February, 2016

Italtel partners with Telarix for large network control system

Italtel and Telarix have jointly defined a complete end-to-end solution for controlling large networks. (more…)

06 July, 2015

Comptel launches Monetizer product – guess what it does

Comptel has announced Monetizer, a business policy and charging toolset to enable digital and communications service providers (CSPs) to innovate and design rich service offers instantly. With Monetizer, CSPs can create, configure, launch and modify dynamic, contextual packages – and profit from consumers’ data usage.  (more…)

14 April, 2015

How to create a smarter network infrastructure for the connected world

The need to be connected to the ‘smarter world’ is ever increasing with the rise in the number of mobile devices. LTE is now a global reality for millions of subscribers and the age of the Internet of Things (IoT) is well and truly upon us. While this opens up a variety of opportunities for network operators, it also comes with a warning. (more…)

24 March, 2015

VanillaPlus Black Book 2015

WELCOME TO THE VANILLAPLUS BLACK BOOK 2015

When we published our VanillaPlus Black Book 2014 at Mobile World Congress last year, we highlighted a series of technological and business model advances set to transform the traditional telecoms market. Many of those seeds are now sprouting, some have become strong, young saplings.

In 2015 we will continue our series of VanillaPlus Insight reports, authored by independent analysts. Topics for the rest of the year include: NFV, Bill & Charge, CEM, Policy and OTT. In addition we’ll also publish a series of business-specific supplements covering network planning and optimisation, cloud, digital TV, revenue management and assurance and the Internet of Things. We hope you enjoy this, our second, Black Book and the Insights contained within it.

03 November, 2014

Policy – Can policy deliver flexible and profitable business models?

The latest VanillaPlus Insight explores how CSPs are engaging in flexible business models to protect the network and stimulate new service revenues.

The Insight contains a specially authored analyst report by Karl Whitelock, the director of global operations and monetisation strategy, and Troy Morley, operations and monetisation analyst, at Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan. In addition to their report, the Insight includes interviews and features to help you gain an understanding of the new role of policy for CSPs

22 June, 2014

Openet announces VoLTE charging and policy

Openet has announced a charging control (PCC) solution for voice over LTE (VoLTE) services which the vendor says has been successfully deployed on multiple operator networks worldwide. The standards compliant PCC solution enables operators to configure policies and develop new charging and billing models for VoLTE service rollouts.

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21 April, 2014

Amdocs announces policy control for VoLTE

Amdocs has announced the availability of Amdocs VoLTE Controller, a standards-based, virtualised policy control and charging rule function (PCRF) solution specifically designed to support the stringent feature requirements that enable a high definition (HD) quality and differentiated VoLTE experience. Already supporting VoLTE services at a Tier-1 North American CSP, Amdocs has also been selected for policy control support of VoLTE by a European Tier-1 service provider.

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