Bango buys US carrier billing service BilltoMobile for US$3.5m to boost app stores and operators’ end user spend

Bango, a mobile payments provider, has acquired BilltoMobile, the US-based carrier billing services of Danal Inc. The price is an initial consideration of $3.5m (£2.4m), comprising $3m (£2.15m) in cash,

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Playing it for laughs: Huawei’s CEO meets analyst questions head on with wit and candour

Eric Xu, the rotating CEO of Huawei, China’s largest telecom equipment and services provider, isn’t like most chief execs. Not only was he happy to take questions from an international

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EXFO shows TestFlow cloud-based process automation solution for efficiency and reduced OPEX

EXFO Inc. has announced the launch of TestFlow, its new process automation and compliance solution enabling mobile network operators (MNOs) to easily streamline and automate complex testing procedures during the construction and service turn-up phases of fiber-to-the-antenna (FTTA) and distributed antenna

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Mobile operators to accept e-SIM as inevitable, but will add software locks to limit switching between networks

Looking at the year ahead, Thorsten Trapp, CTO of tyntec, expects MNOs to live with eSIMs, monetise user data more, and yet lose more ground to OTTs.

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Spirent sees ‘Game Changers’ in carrier device management as MNOs and MVNOs face seven major challenges in 2016

The year 2016 will see communications Device Management (DM) take a new direction, says Spirent Communications’ Lars Houbak, general manager of its device intelligence business unit.

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OTT mobile voice revenues to top $10bn by 2020 eroding mobile operators share

A new study from Juniper Research has found that Over the Top (OTT) voice providers are expected to see an increase in their service revenues by 2020, reaching over $10

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