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Mobile Money: Where It's Headed and Telecom's Likely Role

Dan Baker's chat with mobile money expert Dave Birch covers mobile vs. credit cards, fraud concerns, a case study in Kenya, and the very different regulatory climates of Europe vs. the U.S. ...More
June 11, 2013 By Dan Baker
Posted in Blog, Revenue Management
Willetts, Verwaayen Among 'Big Guns' in Management World Keynotes

Ben Verwaayen, former CEO of BT and Alcatel-Lucent, was quite candid about the digital-services world we’re heading into: “Let’s be brutally honest – do we understand all the elements coming towards us in real time? Absolutely not." ...More
May 15, 2013
Posted in Blog
Tektronix Co-leads TM Forum Big Data Analytics Best Practices Project

The project will deliver new best practices to help operators achieve big-data implementation and data extraction. ...More
May 14, 2013
Posted in News
Oracle, Amdocs, China Mobile Take Home TM Forum Excellence Awards

TM Forum handed out its annual Excellence Awards at its Management World event in Nice, France, Monday night. ...More
May 14, 2013 By Craig Galbraith
Posted in News
cVidya To Unveil LTE Revenue-Generating Tool

cVidya Insight is designed to reveal the actual profitability of new services in real-time. ...More
May 7, 2013 By Craig Galbraith
Posted in News, Revenue Management
InfoVista Rolls Out Application Visibility Solution Update

InfoVista’s application visibility services solution is designed to help communications service providers (CSPs) enhance their business offerings, to improve the customer experience and generate additional revenues. ...More
May 2, 2013 By Craig Galbraith
Posted in News, Customer Experience Management, Service & Network Management
Amdocs, Oracle, NetCracker Finalists for Multiple TM Forum Awards

TM Forum, the nonprofit industry association for service providers, is out with its list of finalists for the group's annual Excellence Awards, to be handed out at Management World 2013 in Nice next month. ...More
April 4, 2013 By Craig Galbraith
Posted in News
Slide Show: B/OSS' Top 10 Stories in December

We tallied our top 10 stories for December by combining online page views with results from our weekly newsletters. Among the top: Ericsson's OSS-BSS revolution; an alarming Oracle survey on churn; and 3G vs. 4G charging. But what was No. 1? ...More
January 3, 2013
Posted in Galleries, Billing
Live From Management World: Big Questions Around Big Data

“Don’t try to boil the ocean," was the refrain sung in every big-data session at Management World Americas – choose small, achievable projects that work and deliver value, and build from there. Eventually, everyone will want their finger in the big-data pie. ...More
December 7, 2012
Posted in Blog, Customer Experience Management
Live From Management World Americas: eHealth and Smart Energy

Even though we haven’t quite wrapped our heads around it, communications service providers are, in a sense, becoming health-care providers. ...More
December 5, 2012
Posted in Blog