Jeremy Cowan
Virtual networks will be majority provider of services in 5 years, says Frost / VanillaPlus survey: Part 2
Analysts at Frost & Sullivan have been working with VanillaPlus to find out from our readers about the difficulties facing communication service providers (CSPs) involved in digital transformation of their
Read moreCSPs feel management siloes can be avoided in hybrid networks, Frost / VanillaPlus survey finds: Part 1
Analysts Frost & Sullivan collaborated with VanillaPlus recently to ask our readers their thoughts on 10 key questions facing communication service providers (CSPs) involved in digital transformation of their business
Read moreLow ARPUs, fraud and client culture clashes are backdrop as TeleSign acquisition accelerates BICS transformation
Carriers and even carriers’ carriers need to stimulate growth and reduce their dependency on declining voice revenues. All of which comes as news to no-one, says Jeremy Cowan. But how
Read moreSubscribers feel service providers are using chatbots and artificial intelligence to cut jobs: Not guilty, say SPs
Consumers like chatbots. In fact, many prefer them to call centre agents. But there’s a public perception that service providers (SPs) are simply using the technology to cut one of
Read moreOperators use machine learning so customers make confident choices
As techies argue over the merits of Samsung‘s Galaxy S8 or holding out for the Apple iPhone X announced yesterday, spare a thought for Jo or Joe Average Buyer. Many
Read moreSenate’s IoT Cybersecurity Act requires US government to invest only in ‘secure’ solutions
As we reported on August 2 (US senators planning bill to ‘secure’ the Internet of Things but users are a weak link, say experts), US senators are demanding tougher security
Read more‘Debt’ stops being a four-letter word, as EAIF puts $815m into African private sector investments
It can be hard to find investment funding for infrastructure projects in sub-Saharan Africa. It’s doubly hard if you’re looking for private sector investors, says Jeremy Cowan. But there are
Read moreWhere are the new business models that will transform CSPs? Or is their future like Woolworth’s?
Robin Kent is urged by Jeremy Cowan to think the unthinkable about telcos’ future. The Adax director still can’t foresee the fundamental change of business model that telcos urgently need.
Read moreOperators are still wrestling with service differentiation and asking ‘Who will make the money in IoT?’
One of the problems with the Internet of Things (IoT), says Robin Kent, director of Adax, is that not all network operators have figured out how to make money from
Read moreSmall operators will be squeezed by European roaming tariff changes, says the president of MVNO Europe
Following the recent agreement in Europe on the new tariffs applied to the wholesale roaming market, VanillaPlus asked Jacques Bonifay, president of MVNO Europe and CEO of France-based Transatel for
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