CenturyLink brings together adaptive networking, agile IT and security to fuel customers’ digital transformations

With enterprises digital transformation initiatives starting to bear fruit, George Malim, caught up with Julia Fraser, the vice president of sales, UK and Ireland at CenturyLink, to find out her

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Revealed: The 5G pricing strategies that work

As 5G is becoming a commercial reality in multiple lead markets, and with many other launches anticipated over the next 12-18 months, the pressure is on Service Providers to finalize

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Shock as survey shows customers see operators as digital service providers

Reports of telecoms operators enduring a lingering decline to become commoditised infrastructure providers may have been exaggerated if the results of a new survey of mobile operators’ customers can be

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Inside Swisscom’s mainframe replacement project

Mainframe replacement is a phrase that turns the blood to ice in the veins of most telecoms IT professionals but these ambitious projects are starting to happen with greater regularity

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5G gives mobile operators a sporting chance to monetise networks

With 5G starting to become available, VanillaPlus managing editor George Malim, interviewed Bhavesh Upadhyay, the vice president of online operations at sports media technology specialist Deltatre, to understand how 5G

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Most machine learning projects fail: Here’s how to harness analytics successfully

The majority of communications service provider (CSP) machine learning projects fail. So says David Yates, vice president of product management at Guavus. While you catch your breath at that and

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Unitymedia drives value from big data analytics

As communications service providers (CSPs) rise to the challenge of generating value from their big data analytics, Philipp Gröne, a senior delivery expert at Unitymedia, explains how the German service

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Hansen Technologies and Sigma Systems combine to drive telecom business innovation and energy market expansion

The recent acquisition of Sigma Systems by Hansen Technologies (https://bit.ly/2HhekRI) took the telecom market by surprise, as the Australia-based IT vendor put US$117 million down in cash to acquire 100% of

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Gym users feel the burn from weak indoor signals

Although the UK’s mobile operators are launching 5G cellular networks, coverage issues, particularly indoors, are causing gym users to stop exercising, writes George Malim.

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Satellite broadband can compete with fibre and enable EU targets to be met, says Viasat chief

Evan Dixon, the managing director of Viasat Europe, tells George Malim that as European governments mandate broadband access for all and IoT applications demand pervasive connectivity, the costs and performance

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