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Ericsson, Accenture Named Tops in Telecom Operations Management

Gartner says the TOMS market became more concentrated in 2012, with the top 20 vendors accounting for about 58 percent of total revenue, up from 56 percent the previous year. ...More
May 16, 2013 By Craig Galbraith
Posted in News
M&A Helps Allot Take DPI Lead Over Sandvine

Service providers' deep-packet inspection (DPI) product revenue approached $600 million last year, up 28 percent from 2011. ...More
May 7, 2013 By Craig Galbraith
Posted in News, Service Creation & Delivery
Tiered Data Plans Undermine the Revenue-Generating Potential of LTE Data Services

Being the biggest LTE market has not brought low data-plan prices to U.S. consumers. Verizon Wireless charges $7.50 for each GB of data downloaded over its LTE network. This is three times the European average of $2.50. ...More
May 6, 2013
Posted in Articles, Revenue Management
Global Managed Telecom Services to Reach $152B in 2013, Study Finds

Insight Research also predicts U.S. revenues from managed telecom will increase from $34 billion in 2013 to $51 billion in 2017. ...More
May 2, 2013
Posted in News
OTT Messaging Poised to Blow Up

The volume of OTT messaging traffic is expected to be double that of P2P SMS messaging by the end of 2013. ...More
April 29, 2013 By Arselia Gales
Posted in News
Analysys Mason Predicts DVAP Telecoms Retail Revenue Decline

New report predicts that telecoms retail revenue will decline at a CAGR of -.04 percent in developed Asia Pacific from 2012 to 2017. ...More
April 25, 2013
Posted in News
For Wholesalers, Wireless Wins and Losses Becoming a Game of Innovation

As few new service providers plan to roll out wireless services, selling integrated wholesale solutions into non-traditional wireless service models will be key to new growth opportunities. ...More
April 23, 2013
Posted in Blog
Carriers Should Grow In-Country, Not Out, Ovum Says

A new Ovum report shows that it is more beneficial for telcos to invest in growing their customer numbers in fewer countries as opposed to expanding horizontally across more countries. ...More
April 22, 2013 By Arselia Gales
Posted in News
Telcos Need New Strategies, Business Models

A new forecast from Analysys Mason suggests that looking to new strategies and new business models is critical to survival and growth for telecoms. ...More
April 12, 2013 By Arselia Gales
Posted in News
Personalized, Hybrid Services Drive Convergent Billing

CSPs need to be able to apply real-time charging for different payment models (prepaid/postpaid) and network types (wireless/wireline/converged/IMS). They also need streamlined rating and billing for value-added services, through rich billing data models. ...More
April 9, 2013
Posted in Articles, Billing, Service & Network Management