Telecoms.com

Dish buys more customers as mobile push gets serious

Having shelled out massive sums for mobile spectrum over the years, Dish Network is now opening its wallet to pick up customers too.

• 09 Mar 2021

Huawei still top dog in the global telecoms kit market

Huawei has increased its lead at the top of the global telecoms equipment market, boosting its revenue share by a couple of percentage points last year.

• 08 Mar 2021

Telco BSS: Challenges and solutions for growth and sustainability

Today, end-customers are the primary change agents; relentless in demanding better services and experiences and putting more pressure on service providers.

• 03 Mar 2021

Operators are neglecting the massive SME opportunity – report

CSPs are obsessed with the large enterprise market and overlooking the billions of dollars available from small and medium enterprises.

• 16 Feb 2021

O2 UK gets £10 million wrist slap for overcharging

UK MNO O2 spent almost a decade overcharging customers when they switched, for which Ofcom has belatedly given it a token punishment.

• 12 Feb 2021

Proximus buys all of BICS, consolidation on the cards

Proximus is taking sole control of international carrier business BICS, 15 years after it created the company via a merger with Swisscom.

• 09 Feb 2021

Nokia helps China Mobile with 5G RAN AI trial

Don’t count Nokia out of the Chinese RAN market just yet because it seems to be getting pretty cozy with China Mobile.

• 21 Jan 2021

With calls for 5G and telecoms in trouble, it’s time to reconsider company infrastructure

Telecom providers and their partner companies aren’t entirely synchronized all the time, especially for customer device trade-ins or sales.

• 20 Jan 2021

Agile integration: the blueprint for enterprise architecture

Success is based on your ability to react to market changes. And as more versatile disruptors enter your market, the less time you have to make changes and release new services. To stay relevant, you need the ability to quickly plan and execute changes to software systems. Agile integration combines three powerful architectural capabilities — […]

• 06 Jan 2021

Cloud-native meets hybrid cloud strategy guide

Cloud-native application development can help maintain reliable systems and meet increasing user expectations across multiple infrastructures. But how do organizations get started? How do teams design and implement a strategy that’s specific to their current situations and needs? This e-book presents enterprise architects and IT leaders with a step-by-step guide for how to tackle modern IT strategy. This […]

• 06 Jan 2021

Cloud-native operational and business support systems

As competition gets more innovative and aggressive for digital service providers (DSPs), legacy technologies cannot deliver services that meet changing consumer expectations. Operations teams have to do more with less while business owners have to deliver superior customer experiences faster. If you are a building or buying a modern OSS/BSS infrastructure, going cloud-native is fundamental for […]

• 06 Jan 2021

Open Source for OSS/BSS Modernization

Managed open source software is essential to modernizing telecommunications operations and business support systems (OSS/BSS). ACG Research finds that enterprise open source provides operators and their vendors with proven tools and technologies for automation and seamless integration between apps. Learn about essential steps and open source tools, like Red Hat Integration and Red Hat Ansible […]

• 06 Jan 2021

UK mobile providers under pressure to offer free data during Lockdown 3

Following the UK decision to close schools once more there have been calls for UK telcos to stop charging for data to ensure poor kids have access to remote learning.

• 05 Jan 2021

Mobility-as-platform services: are operators the missing piece?

While there’s no doubt that AWS and Toyota may enjoy some success going it alone, there are several reasons why telecoms service providers can play an integral role in the building of these mobility services platforms.

• 07 Dec 2020

KPN’s fibre-backed growth plan is very traditional telco

KPN is banking on network expansion, especially in fibre, to drive a return to growth next year.

• 24 Nov 2020

Google completes global rollout of RCS for Android

After a decade of false starts Rich Communications Service has hit the mainstream with Google making it available to all Android users.

• 19 Nov 2020

UK telecoms complaints decline despite lockdown

You’d think people would moan more about telecoms services when that’s all they have, but the latest Ofcom numbers paint a different picture.

• 13 Nov 2020

Telecoms industry has weathered the 2020 storm – survey

The industry professionals participating in Telecoms.com’s annual industry survey have shown plenty of resilience and optimism in a year overshadowed by COVID-19.

• 11 Nov 2020

Ericsson declares its turnaround complete, but Digital Services still a problem

Swedish kit vendor had its latest Capital Markets Day, in which it celebrated steadying the ship but halved the profitability outlook for its software unit.

• 10 Nov 2020

What’s the point of digital BSS?

To deliver real, long term, business benefits and improved profitability, “going digital” has to be about more than just offloading services to the cloud.

• 14 Oct 2020