Telecoms

18 August, 2020

A key strategy: Offering new customers packages tailored to their individual’s credit risk

A large communications service provider (CSP) that serves more than 50 million individual, business and government subscribers was faced with the challenge of optimising its customer acquisition policies by offering new customers equipment and service packages tailored to each individual’s credit risk. This is a critical new battleground for telecoms operators as markets exceed saturation and the fight to attract new customers centres on making attractive, tailored propositions. (more…)

12 August, 2020

Global private LTE outlook improves in healthcare, manufacturing and autonomous vehicles

The demand for network connectivity has been growing, predominantly in supporting mission-critical business applications. Every line of business has undergone rapid digital and automation transformation, says Yogesh Desale, market research analyst at MarketsandMarkets. In the digital transformation era, businesses are embracing best-of-breed technologies for improving operational efficiency and streamlining business operations. (more…)

04 August, 2020

DZS names Vogt as president and CEO for company transformation

DASAN Zhone Solutions, Inc., an enabler of the emerging hyper-connected, hyper-broadband world, has appointed Charlie Vogt as president, CEO and director effective August 1st. (more…)

01 August, 2020

Career Snapshot: Savouring London life, and always asking ‘What am I making here?’

Olen Scott came into telecoms by chance but is enjoying the journey, whether it’s meeting great colleagues in Antigua, trying an old world English pub, or learning from leaders’ successes – and failures. Here, the senior vice president, Worldwide Channels at Aryaka Networks shares with VanillaPlus some of the lessons he’s learned so far. (more…)

27 July, 2020

From CSP to financial services provider: New opportunities for telcos

There has been a paradigm shift in the way products and services are sold, largely driven by the advent of social media, the ability for complaints to go viral, and the availability of unbiased reviews. (more…)

09 July, 2020

Unleashing the potential of 5G with blockchain

Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) face an uphill battle. It is estimated that they need to invest between $500 billion (€441 billion) and $1 trillion (€0.8 trillion) in upgrading network infrastructure for 5G, whilst already having to manage sprawling networks of towers, cables and switches just to support their ongong operations, says Thomas Spencer, telecom lead at R3 – the blockchain firm. (more…)

07 July, 2020

5G ‘continues progress’ despite COVID-19

5G progress in connections and deployments continues despite the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic downturn. So says, 5G Americas, the wireless industry trade association and voice of 5G and LTE for the Americas. (more…)

07 July, 2020

Optiva BSS platform recognised for innovative telco cloud product strategy

Optiva Inc. has been named a finalist for the 2020 Leading Lights Awards. The recognition is for its new Optiva BSS platform, the telecom industry’s first SaaS, multi-tenant BSS platform on the public cloud, in the category of Most Innovative Telco Cloud Product Strategy (Vendor). (more…)

01 July, 2020

We need more than just a bigger, faster pipe

Nobody could accuse the telecoms industry of standing still – after all, research into 6G technology is underway even though 5G has barely left the labs to go into its deployment phase. But, as Sanjay Bhatia, VP of solutions marketing & strategy at Ribbon asks, is all the network research and investment currently focused on the right issues? (more…)

30 June, 2020

Telcos must be cautiously aggressive to ‘Roar out of Recession’

As we approach four months since essentially the entire world went on lockdown, telcos have gone through a very mixed experience. (more…)