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STL is selling off its telecom software unit to Skyvera
Sterlite Technologies (STL) is selling its Telecom Products Software business to Skyvera as part of its strategy to refocus on its core optical fiber business. Read more…
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DITO taps Whale Cloud for next-gen IT system to support 5G ambitions
Upstart Philippines operator DITO Telecommunity has selected Whale Cloud to develop its next-generation IT system. Read more…
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How COVID-19 kicked digital transformation into overdrive
COVID-19 has forced a lot of businesses to rethink how they engage with their customers who demand a digital customer experience. Read more…
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One brain to rule them all: do telcos need centralized AI?
Many telcos are adopting AI one department at a time, which is resulting in AI silos. Amdocs:next has an idea: a centralized cloud-based AI brain. Read more…
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How CSPs can leverage open source, DevOps and microservices
Partnerships will be key for telcos of all sizes taking advantage of the trinity of open source software, DevOps and microservices. Several large operators are increasing developer headcount as the trend of operator and vendor Read more…
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CSPs struggle to find business case for network transformation
Communications service providers (CSPs) are reporting slower-than-expected progress towards network transformation in a new TM Forum survey, despite 44% of them agreeing that it plays an integral part in digital transformation success. According to TM Read more…
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5G must be different from 4G, not merely faster
You can’t monetize 5G until you understand what makes it different from 4G besides faster speeds – and overhaul your B/OSS, while you’re at it, writes Catherine Haslam. 5G is a technology – or more Read more…
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Netcracker launches full-stack SDN/NFV as a service
Netcracker Technology has announced the launch of what it claims is the industry’s first end-to-end, cloud-based SDN/NFV and IT solution – from VNFs to orchestration, OSS, BSS, portals and a digital marketplace – as a Read more…
Features
Bubbletone explains why you should blockchain your BSS
Telecom platform Bubbletone and software and services provider Nexign recently partnered to apply blockchain to the BSSs that manage telecom companies’ operations. ITU News caught up with Yuri Morozov, CEO and founder of Bubbletone Blockchain Read more…
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Ericsson buys out CENX to boost OSS and NFV business
Ericsson has struck a deal to acquire 100% of shares in service assurance technology company CENX, which the company says will boost its OSS and NFV orchestration portfolio with vendor-agnostic service assurance and closed-loop automation Read more…
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Congrats, telcos! Consumers trust you: now what?
Last month Openet published results of a survey of 1,500 consumers, carried out by Sapio Research, which asked the question, “Who do you trust to provide digital services?” The answers were fairly clear – 92% Read more…
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Celcom Axiata adopts Huawei’s cloud-based OSS solution
Celcom Axiata has inked an agreement with Huawei Technologies (Malaysia) to deploy its cloud-based Digitized Operation Platform software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution. Huawei says Celcom will be the first operator in the country to adopt a full Read more…
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Vodafone India automates billing ops with Amdocs software and services
Amdocs announced that it has helped Vodafone India to automate its billing operations and roll out new services, offers and service plans for its post-paid consumers and enterprise customers faster. Amdocs implemented its service monetization Read more…
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Open systems from a single vendor might as well be closed
Open architectures are becoming the new normal for telcos, but many still stick with single-vendor strategies – which surely defeats the purpose of open systems in the first place. As a CTO, it’s probably heresy Read more…
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Openet expands Sri Lanka Telecom’s backend to support VoLTE
Openet announced that Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) is extending its Openet policy and charging solution to support Voice over LTE (VoLTE) as a further advancement of its 4G network. SLT is rolling out VoLTE with Read more…
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Open APIs are at the heart of BSS evolution to the digital world
Open APIs are at the heart of the move from legacy BSS to open and agile digital business platforms. The TM Forum’s main conference is almost upon us. After MWC, this is the main telecoms Read more…
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Will 5G mean billing as usual, or something completely different?
The promise of 5G, however far away it is, is clear. Lightning-fast speeds, low latency, great reliability – essentially it heralds the realization of every use case on every Powerpoint slide for the last 20 Read more…
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Aria Systems to supply Telstra with cloud-based billing platform
Aria Systems has announced that Telstra has selected its monetization platform to automate billing processes, increase customer self-service options, and accelerate the delivery of new products. Telstra will leverage Aria’s cloud-based platform to support its enterprise products, Read more…
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Digital transformation requires a future-proof BSS: Sterlite Tech
It’s impossible to talk about digital transformation without talking about the BSS, which is perhaps the key component in enabling transformation to be monetizable. There are many different approaches to this – the approach Sterlite Read more…
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MWC REMAINDERS: ORAN, carrier blockchain, IoT rollouts, more
For obvious reasons MWC 2018 last week commanded most of our attention and jammed up our inboxes with press releases. Here’s a quick collection of other noteworthy announcements from last week that were either unrelated Read more…