APAC carriers face twin pressures in 2018

Carriers in SE Asia face a particularly challenging 2018 in the face of twin challenges. The familiar issues of increasing revenues and market share in a fiercely competitive landscape remain

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CSPs’ systems focus moves from support to enablement as digital transformation takes hold

Communications service providers (CSPs) are increasingly engaging in digital transformation initiatives and companies across the business landscape transforming for the digital era. This means new services, new business models and

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Rohde & Schwarz Cybersecurity selected as preferred network traffic analytics supplier by European CSP

IT security company, Rohde & Schwarz Cybersecurity, has received an initial order from an unnamed European communication service provider (CSP) to deliver an advanced traffic analytics solution. The holistic analytics

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Who needs a bank account when you’ve got Direct Carrier Billing?

Do you remember the promise that we would be able to pay for everything just using our smartphones? Well, now you can. OK, some of us have been able to

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Open API lab aims for faster innovation

Telcos and their suppliers will be able to innovate faster and move more quickly and effectively along their transformation paths, following the launch of an online Open API lab ‘platform’

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Open standards are key to increasing value from IoT value chain

Communication Service Providers (CSPs) must adopt an open standards approach if they are to make the most of the revenue opportunities presented by Internet of Things (IoT) applications that use Low

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It’s time for CSPs to escape the vendor relationship circle of despair

In this interview Niall Norton, the chief executive of Openet, tells George Malim, the managing editor of VanillaPlus that, as 5G and virtualisation begin to emerge, communications service providers (CSPs)

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The road to DSP goes through OSS Mediation

In recent blogs, we’ve discussed different aspects of the proliferation of mediation technology into the OSS domain. This trend is almost certainly related to the CSP-to-DSP journey many telcos are

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Consumer perceptions of telecoms billing

Delivering the customer centric bill As communications service providers (CSPs) turn to customer experience as the key differentiator in increasingly competitive markets, attention has once more returned to telecoms billing.

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Big video is both a CSP threat and an opportunity, says NTT Data media chief

As communications service providers (CSPs) prepare to serve their customers with ever increasing amounts of big video, the media industry is widely seen as one of the most fertile areas

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