Ericsson study says network slicing can pay off in better revenues and OpEx, if you automate

In a new study with operator BT, Ericsson quantifies the benefits of network slicing for operators, when coupled with operational automation, as a smart investment to reduce operating expenditures and

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Communications coming full circle – are we moving back into a voice-first world?

With the wave of personal assistants, such as Siri, Cortana and Google Assistant, and new start-ups leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics to build personal companions, it’s becoming clear we

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What is the current state of mobile security? Part 2

If you’re like most people, your phone is by your side throughout your day. Thanks to payment apps, mobile GPS and mobile banking, our phones now double as a wallet,

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Cisco Global Cloud Index projects cloud traffic will represent 92% of total data centre traffic by 2020

In today’s unveiling of the sixth annual Cisco® Global Cloud Index (2015-2020), cloud traffic is expected to rise 3.7-fold, up from 3.9 zettabytes (ZB) per year in 2015 to 14.1

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NB-IoT, LTE-M, LoRa and Sigfox spectrum options now supported in network planning tool

TEOCO, a provider of engineering, assurance and analytics solutions to communications service providers (CSPs) worldwide,

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Future is about more than just payments

More than just payments Starbucks is responsible for developing one of the most successful mobile payments application so far. It has over 16 million active users, accounting for over 25%

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Mobile banking users to total 2bn by 2020, more than 1 in 3 global adults

New research from analysts, Juniper Research finds that more than 2 billion mobile users will have used their devices for banking purposes by the end of 2021.

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De-mystifying Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) – Part 2

Instead of individually managing racks of physical devices to provision new services, NFV technology decouples the services from the hardware and simulates the network functions of the devices in software

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The future of data monetisation – maximising location data monetisation at the micro level

Across the board, mobile network operators (MNOs) are finding themselves under significant commercial pressure. Margins are being squeezed, ARPU is increasingly static across the markets, 

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How IoT software security compares to other business sectors

How big a threat to the IoT is ransomware? IoT is becoming a very large target because there is so much opportunity. Ransomware is just one way to monetise exploited

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