News tagged: CSP

23 June, 2020

Software is eating Telecom: How virtualisation and open source are upending the entire industry

Until recently, network technology vendors to communication service providers (CSPs) had a well-established competitive market position with brand loyalty, long-standing customer relationships, and well entrenched proprietary solutions. However, an inexorable move to software-based (virtualised) solutions, combined with the increasing prevalence of open-source resources, is disrupting the market dynamics and will have profound implications for the industry structure. Report by Liliane Offredo-Zreik and Dr. Mark H Mortensen of ACG Research. (more…)

12 June, 2020

Beyond Covid-19: How CSPs can accelerate new 5G growth opportunities

Earlier this year, the dark clouds of Covid-19 swept across the globe, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned of the worst global recession since the Great Depression. We now see several countries slowly starting to reopen after months of stringent lockdown measures. And despite the 4-month hiatus since the cancellation of MWC Barcelona, it’s time to get back to the important question of what CSPs will need to do to assure payback from their $1 trillion (€0.8 trillion) investment in 5G, says Angus Ward, CEO, BearingPoint//Beyond.

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14 May, 2020

5G monetisation: Opportunities for telecom providers

By now we all either foresee as providers or perceive as customers our dream of faster, smarter, more convenient, transformative digital world becoming a reality with 5G, but the key question is ‘how’ & ‘when’.  (more…)

11 May, 2020

Liberty Global expands collaboration with Amdocs, runs on AWS to enhance the customer experience

Liberty Global, one of the international TV and broadband companies, has expanded its agreement with St. Louis-based Amdocs, to enable access on multiple devices to inspiring and entertaining media content and communication services. (more…)

06 May, 2020

Ecosystem strategy is essential for CSPs ‘losing ground’ in B2B 5G, says report

Telcos are losing ground in early enterprise 5G projects, and they need to act quickly to recover positions of influence as the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic. So says BearingPoint//Beyond, which is working in collaboration with Omdia (previously Ovum). (more…)

04 May, 2020

Digital transformation lags due to skills shortage, says TMF report

Network and connectivity providers have known for some time that digital transformation is a top priority. All communications service providers (CSPs) know they have to change, and fast, says Mark Newman, chief analyst at TM Forum. (more…)

30 April, 2020

5G assurance: An impossible task without network automation

5G is set to bring exciting new use cases to the table, but with it, it’ll also bring heightened complexity. And while degradations in quality of service (QoS) or quality of experience (QoE) may result in frustrated subscribers, when it comes to enterprises, just an hour of network downtime can cause a significant loss in revenue, amounting to millions of dollars. (more…)

05 March, 2020

There isn’t a US$1bn 5G use case, says Accenture 5G lead

Although we’ve missed out on the trumpets heralding the continued roll-out of 5G thanks to the cancellation of MWC 2020, there are significant early milestones to the full deployment of the technology being passed. The road is long, though, Tejas Rao, the managing director and global 5G offering lead at Accenture, tells George Malim.

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22 October, 2019

How mobile operators can use machine learning to detect and optimise the network for roaming IoT devices

On-demand version

While almost half of roaming revenues will come from machine-to-machine communications (IoT devices), providing permanent M2M/IoT roaming is cited as a key challenge by more than 50% of mobile operators. (more…)

27 September, 2019

Becoming the tigers of tomorrow

Earlier this year during a CXO Summit at Digital Transformation World in Nice, we asked a room of telecoms C-levels which animal they would choose to describe the telecoms industry today. Their answers included elephant, sloth, whale and hippopotamus – all large, slow-moving animals. When asked which animal the telecoms industry should be, the same executives chose tigers, cheetahs and foxes – all agile creatures known for speed. (more…)