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Slow Growth for Service Providers Expected Over Next 6 Years

We've been hearing from governments across the globe that economic growth is going to be slow at best, and it appears the same is true for communications service providers. ...More
January 30, 2012 By Craig Galbraith
Posted in News, Revenue Management, Service Creation & Delivery
Managing the Latest Technology Upgrade Cycle

Service assurance has always been important, but with the compleixity of 4G services and the third-party partnerships that surround them, it has become critical. It is nice to be looking up at the future of a market rather than looking around for wherever it went. ...More
December 15, 2011
Posted in Digital Issues, Billing, Customer Experience Management, Revenue Management, Service & Network Management, Service Creation & Delivery
Service Providers Should Mind Their Own Business

Real business owners and managers know it is often extremely difficult to know what one's true costs are and sometimes chasing the dollar is too important to be able to stop and figure it out. ...More
December 12, 2011 By Tim McElligott
Posted in Blog, Revenue Management
Convergent Charging Now a $1 Billion Market

A new report names Telcordia, Comverse, Huawei, Ericsson and Amdocs as the top five convergent-charging vendors based on 2010 global revenue. ...More
December 5, 2011
Posted in News, Billing, Revenue Management
Progress Software Wraps Corticon Buy

Corticon is a Business Rules Management System (BRMS) vendor that enables organizations to make better, faster decisions by automating business rules. ...More
December 5, 2011
Posted in News, Customer Experience Management
Tekelec, Openet Named Top Policy Management Vendors

The survey gives Huawei and Ericsson high marks for many buying criteria, including service and support, the No. 1 supplier-selection criterion. ...More
December 2, 2011
Posted in News, Service Creation & Delivery
TIA Adds 5 to Board

TIA represents the manufacturers and suppliers of global communications networks. ...More
November 30, 2011 By Craig Galbraith
Posted in News
Is Backhaul the Bottleneck?

The ultimate bottleneck is the availability of spectrum. Small cells can reduce this to the theoretical limit where every device is served by its own cell and then the MHz available determine the maximum throughput. ...More
October 12, 2011 By Russ Green
Posted in Blog
Blue Casa Picks Contact Telecom’s Cloud-Based SaaS

Contact Telecom’s Billing Data Analyzer is designed to manage and process carriers’ billing, usage and invoice data, in addition to other business-critical revenue and cost assurance analysis and reporting services. ...More
August 24, 2011
Posted in News, Billing, Revenue Management
ADTRAN Boosts IPTV, OTT in West Texas

NTS Communications has turned to ADTRAN as the vendor for its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) buildout. ...More
July 21, 2011 By Craig Galbraith
Posted in News, Service & Network Management, Service Creation & Delivery