LetterOne and FreedomPop announce strategic partnership following clearance to complete US$50m investment

LetterOne (L1), an international investment business headquartered in Luxembourg, has announced a strategic partnership with FreedomPop, the disruptive US-based mobile service provider, based in California.

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Aria Systems announces Aria for Communications

Aria Systems, has announced Aria for Communications, a cloud-based offering for mobile, multiple system operators (MSOs), and over-the-top (OTT) media providers that removes billing bottlenecks and allows businesses to rapidly create,

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The roadblocks to new digital services roll-out: Why operators must think of commercial migrations to remain competitive

For the last decade, mobile operators have experienced diminishing returns due to market saturation, price pressure and consumer demands for increasingly complex mobile services and also the rise of over

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European survey reveals that mobile operators need to devise innovative data service plans to avoid churn

Openwave Mobility, a software innovator enabling operators to manage and monetise encrypted mobile data, today announced significant results from a population-weighted survey of over 2,000 European mobile subscribers.

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Digital content revenues to exceed $180bn by 2017, as telcos follow OTTs into original programming

A new study from Juniper Research has found that consumer spend on digital content will reach $180 billion next year, up by nearly 30% on last year’s figure of just

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How to execute digital transformation

True digital transformation goes beyond converting analogue to digital or products to services, says Ilkka Aura of Tecnotree. Digital transformation requires more than incremental improvements in customer experience or even

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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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Five tips to convert cloud sceptics

There’s no denying that we’re in the middle of a cloud craze but behind all the hype, does investment in cloud software really deliver a return? How much of the

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Why data is the telcos’ most valuable asset in a hostile world

These are challenging times for telecoms operators. Their traditional ‘cash cow’, voice, is no longer lucrative and they are struggling to compete effectively on cost because the competition from rivals,

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Tata Communications and Anam join forces to support mobile networks in fight against SMS fraud and grey routing

Tata Communications has partnered with Anam, an application-to-person (A2P) messaging monetisation service provider, to create an end-to-end solution that helps mobile network operators globally to tackle revenue loss.

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