CSPs can’t save their way to greatness, new offers and services will be their salvation

Communications service providers (CSPs) need to move from a mentality of saving costs to one of creating new sources of revenue. Those can come from effective use of CSP data,

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CSPs face heightened fraud risks as they enter new markets with new business models

Here, Taylor tells George Malim how CSPs face new threats as they enter new markets with a wider portfolio of services than ever before and explains how big data techniques

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Big data analytics enables CSPs to achieve experience-based marketing

VanillaPlus: With the tremendous amount of focus on analytics today across all industries, are communications service providers (CSPs) behind relative to IT providers and enterprises with regards to big data and analytics?

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Why CSPs are in a prime position to commercialise contextual, omni-channel experiences and maintain competitive advantage

VanillaPlus: hybris software, an SAP company, will be exhibiting at this year’s Mobile World Congress. What do you see as the key features of your attendance?

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Virtualisation isn’t a buzzword, it’s a business enabler

VanillaPlus: Virtualisation is the buzzword of the moment. What is its impact on BSS and how will virtualised BSS deliver the flexibility CSPs need?

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SpatialBuzz launches HDAnalytics+ to help operators improve customer satisfaction

Cloud-based customer experience analytics and service monitoring specialist, SpatialBuzz, has launched HDAnalytics+, a major enhancement of its award-winning cloud-based CEM (Customer Experience Management) platform that helps operators improve their networks

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For CSPs it’s time to change – or be changed

Virtualisation requires a new approach – both for CSPs and for the vendors that support their transformations

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Strategic pricing can be the answer to secure CSPs’ future profitability

Petter Järtby is head of business unit BSS at Ericsson. In this exclusive interview, he tells VanillaPlus that many communication service providers (CSPs) have embraced innovations in both products and

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Organisation, operation and orchestration provide the foundations for successful NFV roll-out

Phil Harris is vice president and chief technology officer in the Chief Technology and Architecture Office (CTAO) at Cisco Systems. As communications service providers(CSPs) continue to prepare for network functions virtualisation

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Short innovation cycles mean it’s time for DSPs to move fast with managed and cloud services

Mark Edwards is chief executive of MDS, a provider of managed revenue and customer management systems that enable communications and digital services providers (CSPs and DSPs) to grow their business, evolve

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