How mailbox ISPs can solve the WhatsApp problem
Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange, takes a look at where email is today, arguing that to counter the inexorable rise of real-time messaging, mailbox ISPs should start thinking positively about
Read moreOne missed call: How CSPs have been left behind in the innovation wars
In the traditional supply-demand sense, communications service providers (CSPs) should be rubbing their hands together with glee. After all, they sell access to what’s now considered by most a basic
Read moreSMS traffic is making a comeback
In recent years, SMS traffic has lost significant traction to WhatsApp and other messaging applications for personal messaging. This shift in the personal messaging preferences of mobile phone users has
Read moreThe bot revolution and the future of customer service
Did you ever call your bank to discuss an issue with your account, and end up having to sit through lots of hold music, before repeating your issue to a
Read moreSix trends set to disrupt global telecoms next year
The global telecoms industry is going through a state of flux. New technologies are disrupting the traditional players, and new competition is emerging. To a large extent, says Sanjay Krishnaa, SVP Communications
Read more2018 means innovating communications for a ‘connected world’, says one operator
Shifts and fluctuations occur in every sector, with political, economic, and social factors all guiding peaks and troughs, positive and negative. According to the CEO of BICS, Daniel Kurgan, the
Read moreBraidio and Ribbon use Kandy platform to optimise delivery of mobile training and social learning for carriers, MSPs and VARs
Braidio, an online and mobile-enabled social learning platform for sales enablement and talent development, expanded its partnership with Ribbon Communications, or Ribbon, bringing initial customers and partners onto their platform.
Read moreGen Z tech research by CommScope shows ‘always-on’ mindset as 15% of city-dwellers check smartphones 30 times per hour
New global research from CommScope underscores why Generation Z is the most technology intimate and connection dependent in history, with unique viewpoints and expectations for the devices, technologies and people
Read moreWhat Viber’s increase in revenues means for operators
On Monday 7th August Rakuten, parent company of Viber, announced that second quarter revenues of the OTT player had increased by more than 90%. User numbers had grown by almost
Read moreHow the telecoms industry is moving to the cloud
Once upon a time communications were the preserve of state monopolies. Then came the first wave of liberalisation. The state monopolies were privatised and new entrants licensed to provide competitive
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