Conversation on CIQ4T with Heavy Reading, Part 2
In part one of our two part series, Heavy Reading analysts Ari Banerjee and Sarah Wallace discussed contextual intelligence for telecoms (CIQ4T) and how this type of approach, which provides advanced...
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A few months ago, a friend made me aware of the Afrinnovator website displaying the tagline: “Putting Africa on the map,” with the goal of “telling the stories of African startups, African innovation,...
View ArticlePoll: Is Unlimited Data Making a Comeback?
Increasingly, there’s discussion within the telecom sector whether unlimited data is making a comeback. In fact, in Wednesday’s blog post we highlight a story asking this very question. This made us...
View Article‘More Policy is needed!’
As continuation to my colleague Simo’s blog on “Now I Understand What You Mean with Contextual Intelligence in Policy Control and Charging” , I would like to share some congress highlights on the major...
View ArticleA Deeper Look at Analytics-Driven Policy Control and Charging
Today, we announced a joint real-time policy control and charging solution with Procera Networks, Inc. I thought this was an opportune time to sit down with Comptel’s resident policy experts, Malla...
View ArticleSurvey: Customers Yearn for the Personal Touch from Mobile Operators
It’s no secret that customer experience is a crucial element to communications service providers’ (CSPs) business growth strategies. Last year, I talked about the necessity to anticipate customer needs...
View ArticleWhat Technologies Are Impacting Policy Management?
I was recently talking about policy management with my colleague, Ulla Koivukoski, and started thinking about how far we’ve come and how it will continue to evolve. All of the new and advanced...
View ArticlePredicting the Next Big Thing in the Bulgarian Telco Market
This week, we hosted a media event in Sofia, Bulgaria, where we have an important global service delivery site. We employ more than 70 IT professionals there and are hoping to grow this office in the...
View ArticleBandwidth Caps & 4K TV: A Glimpse into Telco’s Future
Last month, Sky and TalkTalk announced that they would be teaming up to build fibre-optic infrastructure across a number of cities in the UK. This is an important landmark, as more operators look...
View ArticleThe Football Stress Test: Streaming Video, Networks and Telecommunications
Football is inarguably the most popular sport in the world. That’s why the viewership numbers for the recent games in Brazil kept breaking records. The Brazil vs. Chile match, for example, drew 11.5...
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