News tagged: Facebook

20 March, 2020

RCS again? Yes, really, says Synchronoss CEO

A decade ago, operators made substantial investments in rich communications services (RCS) infrastructure but the promise never came to fruition and RCS became just another rusting hulk in the scrapyard of technological three-letter acronyms. Now, with operators desperate to monetise 5G and bring new experiences to customers, RCS infrastructure is being dusted off and primed for a second chance at success, Glenn Lurie, the president chief executive of Synchronoss, tells George Malim.

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04 March, 2020

Peru joint venture deploys hundreds of parallel wireless OpenRAN sites in Latin America

Parallel Wireless Inc, a U.S.-based OpenRAN company, has deployed hundreds of programmable virtualised 4G OpenRAN sites to deliver mobile broadband in Latin America. It is doing this through Internet para Todos Peru (IpT Peru), a company launched in May 2019 and owned by Telefonica, Facebook, IDB Invest and CAF banks. (more…)

02 January, 2020

Addressable advertising boom across all regions and platforms forecast by Rethink TV

Addressable TV advertising will leap from US$15.6 billion (€13.9 billion) in total worldwide revenue in 2019 to almost six times that value at $85.5 billion (€76.3 billion) by 2025, according to a new report. (more…)

03 December, 2019

Embracing omni-digital customer service in the telco sector

Customer service is becoming the differentiator amongst telco providers – with a digital arms race taking place to provide the best experience. A study found that customer service will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator in 2020. (more…)

26 November, 2019

Digital domestic money transfer transaction values to exceed $3.5tn by 2024, powered by emerging markets

A new study from Juniper Research found that the global domestic money transfer transaction value will exceed $3.5 trillion (€3.1 trillion) by 2024, up from $1.8 trillion (€1.6 trillion) in 2019. (more…)

23 October, 2019

Email subject lines focused on security-minded end users are effective, says KnowBe4 phishing report

KnowBe4, a provider of security awareness training and a simulated phishing platform, has revealed the results of its Q3 2019 top-clicked phishing report. (more…)

09 October, 2019

Facebook nearing 2.5bn active users, 32% of world population

Facebook could eventually reach 2.5 billion daily active users (DAU) by the end of 2019. This is according to a recent report released by the financial site LearnBonds. For this to happen, Facebook’s DAU should grow by 3.56% before the end of the year to reach that goal. (more…)

19 August, 2019

Five ways OTT platforms can maintain Quality of Experience

Over the top (OTT) or video streaming services have now been commonplace for over a decade, with the first services emerging in 2006. Since that time, much has changed. (more…)

09 July, 2019

The Convergence Alliance launched by 18 organisations to enable new open data economy on decentralised web

A group of leading enterprise partners, venture capitalists, technologists, start-ups and academic institutions has joined forces to use blockchain better to pioneer the next phase of the Web. (more…)

02 July, 2019

Real-time 5G services bring higher customer expectations – and complexities – for revenue and business assurance

In the first chapter of this three-part series looking into 5G use cases and the associated revenue and business assurance risks and challenges, we highlighted an imaginary 5G subscriber named ‘John’ who’s trip to a nearby concert involved using an autonomous car. (more…)