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Data scientists are the Indiana Joneses of the terabit jungle – shame there’s so few of them

I’ve heard some weird and wonderful job titles in 15 years of telecoms journalism.

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In the 3G slow lane as EE gets ahead of itself

The recent announcement from UK mobile operator EE that it had completed the migration to a new core MPLS (multi-protocol label switching) network to better serve the needs of 4G

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Have CSPs hit the edge of efficiency?

Much of the content of VanillaPlus over the last few years has focused on how CSPs can become agile, flexible businesses and optimise the efficiency of their operations. In an

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IT agnostic? If you don’t believe in technology you’re in the wrong job

If telecoms engineers know one thing, it’s that syntax and protocols and standards must be upheld. There’s simply no scope to be IT agnostic, writes Nick Booth

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The future is soft but it will also be hard

Way back in the last millennium VanillaPlus was launched to address the increasing complexity within the software architectures of CSPs as they transitioned to provide more than the basic ‘vanilla’

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Why doesn’t someone invent a simpler method of innovation?

Innovation – I suspect we’ll all be hearing that word a lot next year, as the challenge of customer experience is tackled. As a currency, it’s been massively devalued by

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CSPs need to learn to look in both directions at once.

Predictions of relatively flat spending by CSPs on IT over the next four years may suggest a cloud of gloom spreading across the OSS/BSS community. Research by analyst firm, Ovum,

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CSPs need to focus on internal integration, not just getting customers to do more

CSPs are taking The Hypocritic Oath when it comes to lecturing customers on the need to adapt, writes Nick Booth

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Cloud telephony – is it doomed to remain the technology of the future

This cloud telephony is great isn’t it? I said cloud telephony… can you hear me? Oh never mind, I’ll call you on a landline. Nick Booth questions the need for

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