Telecoms.com

Telcos are a commodity and not innovative; so what?

While the world is worried about the trend of commoditization, a former Ericsson and Smartone telecoms industry heavyweight is asking what the big deal is.

• 02 Jun 2017

The threat of ‘text-to-switch’ – time for telcos to up their customer engagement game

With switching made simpler, the chance of defections can only increase. For this reason, it’s important for telco providers to start preparation early, and seek new ways to extend customer engagement and drive retention.

• 01 Jun 2017

Quad-play is so 2016; we’re all about the pent-play – Orange

If convergence is the name of the game in 2017, Orange is looking to up the ante in the multi-play markets.

• 01 Jun 2017

T-Mobile US makes a big deal out of DIGITS

Disruptive US operator T-Mobile is rolling out its DIGITS mobile phone number portability initiative to all customers following a five-month beta.

• 26 May 2017

Vodafone targets quad-play market in Malta with Melita merger

Vodafone has announced it will be merging with broadband provider Melita to offer a quad-play solution in the Maltese market.

• 24 May 2017

Mobile money could make Africa the new boss

Samsung Pay has officially launched in the UK, continuing the evolution of the digital economy, but does this technology have the potential to disrupt the global pecking order?

• 17 May 2017

An actual usecase for Big Data? Maybe, but let’s not get carried away

Data has been promised as the new oil in the digital era, but there has been little substance to the idea thus far. That said, WeDo Technologies think they have cracked it.

• 12 May 2017

Digital transformation is a journey – just don’t count on ever finishing

It’s a question which has plagued the industry, but Frost & Sullivan’s Karl Whitelock has had a crack at defining the buzziest of buzzwords, digital transformation.

• 11 May 2017

Syniverse launches global wifi marketplace

Telecoms transaction processor Syniverse has launched ‘Mobile Marketplace’, which aims to facilitate the trading of wifi resource globally.

• 11 May 2017

Huawei focuses on the cloud at MVNOs World Congress 2017

At MVNOs World Congress 2017 in Nice, France, Huawei was keen to focus on its BES (business enabling system) Cloud, which is designed to help innovative operators.

• 27 Apr 2017

Ericsson finally has a plan – flog media and cloud hardware units, double-down on services and IoT

Having spent the first quarter of the year reviewing the state of his company, Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm has now unveiled his grand plan to turn the company around.

• 28 Mar 2017

Nokia drops €347 million on Comptel to kick-start software push

Nokia fancies itself as a software player, so what better way to start than the acquisition of a Finnish OSS company?

• 09 Feb 2017

AsiaInfo European cull begins with UK workforce

AsiaInfo has begun work on scaling back its European operations, and Telecoms.com understands the vast majority of its UK workforce has been laid off.

• 04 Jan 2017

Vodafone tries to divert attention from continued customer service fails

Ofcom’s Q3 complaints data still has Vodafone dropping the ball so the operator wants to talk about its enterprise wins instead. Good luck with that.

• 20 Dec 2016

Exclusive – AsiaInfo addresses European operations concerns

BSS vendor AsiaInfo has spoken exclusively to Telecoms.com in response to our queries regarding the status of its European operations.

• 29 Nov 2016

Vodafone gets away with just a £4.3 million fine for billing balls-up

Like a naughty school child, Vodafone has been given a monumental bollocking by Headmaster Ofcom today, and walked out with a £4.6 million fine for being a very naughty boy.

• 26 Oct 2016

Openet makes wholesale market move with freemium BSS/OSS suite

Openet has launched its Digital Enterprise Solutions serving the wholesale market, which includes free-to-use edition of Openet’s Digital Enterprise Gateway and Digital Enterprise Practice.

• 24 Aug 2016

Huawei, Ericsson and Nokia renew OSS pact

The big three networking vendors – Huawei, Ericsson and Nokia – have all extended their commitment to the OSS interoperability initiative.

• 14 Jul 2016

Ofcom complaints data shows slight improvement for Vodafone

UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has published its consumer complaints data for Q1 2016 and it reveals a slight improvement for Vodafone, but there’s still a way to go.

• 08 Jul 2016

Ericsson lands $1 billion IT transformation deal with VimpelCom

Swedish networking giant Ericsson and operator group VimpelCom has signed a deal worth over $1 billion to ‘radically transform VimpelCom’s global IT infrastructure.’

• 13 Jun 2016