Ericsson will be looking at building its OSS business for Smart City projects and Digital India initiatives announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Ericsson currently works with most of the Indian telecom operators. The company’s recent acquisitions have enabled Ericsson to strengthen focus on enterprise space.

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Amdocs (DOX), the leading provider of customer experience solutions, today announced that Telefonica, one of the world’s leading service providers, has selected Amdocs for a business support systems (BSS) transformation project in Brazil to provide a seamless, multi-channel experience for Vivo’s quad-play customers across wireline (including fiber), wireless (pre- and postpaid), Internet (including fiber) and TV (including IPTV). The project spans customer relationship management including self-service, service order management, master enterprise catalog, and revenue management.

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Senior Directors from 11 telecom operators namely Aircel, Bedigital, Bharti Airtel, Celcom, Digi, Globe Telecom, Indosat, StarHub, True Corporation, Vodafone & XL Axiata will be sharing case studies and perspectives on how to monetise internal and external big data at Monetising Big Data in Telecoms World Summit 2015 which will be held from 20 to 21 April 2015 in Singapore. [Read more…]

COMPRION GmbH, a leading manufacturer of test solutions for cell phones, extends its involvement in EMVCo activities. Testing for mobile payment is now required by the mobile operator association GSMA through their NFC Handset Test Book. COMPRION joins EMVCo as a Technical Associate. The company offers its experience and expertise in detecting communication problems of the contactless interface used for mobile payment. [Read more…]

Canalys announced the winners of the Candefero Channel Partner of the Year Awards for LATAM. These awards recognize high achievement by the region’s channel partners in particular areas. The winners were honored on stage in Shanghai on Thursday 6 November at the APAC Canalys Channels Forum, attracting 800 leading IT players from 20 countries across the region. [Read more…]

Direct carrier billing and mobile messaging provider DIMOCO has hired 39-year old Martin Kolisch, a well-known telecommunications expert in the direct carrier billing market, as the new CEO of DIMOCO Germany. In his new role he will be in charge of further expanding the international company’s business in Germany. At the same time, the German office will move from Jena to the mobile network operator hotspot Düsseldorf. [Read more…]

Monetising Big Data in Telecoms
World Summit 2015
20-21 April 2015, Singapore

Monetising internal and external big data to drive brand loyalty and develop new revenue streams

Monetising Big Data in Telecoms World Summit 2015 will draw together highly-regarded expert speakers from across the ecosystem of telecommunications industry and big data analytics solutions providers to present to you the latest key issues in monetising internal and external big data. The highlights of the summit will be Case Studies and Perspectives to be shared by telecoms operators on their efforts in using data analytics to drive customer brand loyalty and develop possible new revenue streams. [Read more…]

Bill Perfect Inc. recently announced a new quoting component, TBQuote. Bill Perfect’s CEO Michael Lates says, “The quoting feature is directly integrated with TimelyBill’s product catalog and customer account data. This tight integration with other TimelyBill components allows users to quickly select products and assign different location or invoice groups to quoted items. It can also override the rates and descriptions of individual line items.” [Read more…]

Industrial and commercial communications operator Metacom has launched its web-based Metacom Management Centre to clients, allowing them unprecedented insight into network performance. [Read more…]

The CARTES SESAMES Awards presented on Monday, November 3rd 2014, in Paris rewarded the industry’s best innovations. The award in the category “Manufacturing & Test” was given to COMPRION’s OTAbility test solution honoring the need for testing all involved elements of the OTA communication chain and its use cases beyond what is covered by conformance tests. [Read more…]

Business-to-Business direct carrier billing company DIMOCO http://www.dimoco.eu now publishes its fifth European country special. With 115.2 million mobile subscribers, a mobile handset penetration of 119.9% in comparison with 35.7% credit card ownership and the growing digital industry, Germany shows enormous potential for billing digital content via direct carrier billing. Whereas the publishing market is expected to grow to 2,287 million USD in 2017, the gaming market is estimated to be worth 1,589 million USD, followed by the home video market with 674 million USD and the digital music industry with 620 million USD revenue in 2017 (Entertainment & Media Outlook, pwc). [Read more…]

Accelerate Revenue Development through Smart Partnerships, Innovative Business Models, New Services, QoS and Network Optimisation

21-22 January 2015, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

This exclusive marcus evans forum will offer critical insights into how to enhance customer experience, optimize infrastructure, and establish effective monetization of mobile and data services. We will hear from an expert speaker panel on how to capitalize on LTE and 4G networks and how to enhance next-generation networks to manage the exponential increase in data volumes. We will learn how to manage, optimize and monetize mobile data to gain competitive advantage whilst boosting customer experience that will distinguish us from other operators as well as increasing capacity and area penetration to maximize revenue per user. Finally, we will explore M2M technologies for driving new revenues. [Read more…]

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/whspkz/next_generation) has announced the addition of the “Next Generation Network OSS/BSS Market and Forecast 2014 – 2019” report to their offering.

Telecommunication service providers are adopting next generation OSS/BSS systems for many reasons including integration with new IP-based frameworks, emerging applications, and the need to deal with customer service and retention. Other factors include the need for network operators to rationalize legacy systems into common support frameworks while they simultaneously seek differentiation factors from one another. One challenge is that this is all happening while carriers roll-out increasingly complex (at the network and service provider level) products and services. [Read more…]

CENX, a global leader of Service Orchestration solutions for software-defined networks, has received a new multi-million dollar order from a Tier 1 North American service provider. The customer is extending their Cortx Service Orchestrator deployment to rollout Just-In-Time Capacity Management throughout their mobile backhaul network, to gain significant upgrade savings. [Read more…]

Nashville-based Equinox Information Systems proudly reports several company milestones. September marks the start of the company’s 29th year. Equinox was founded in 1986 on a simple, yet clearly-defined vision: to be a great place to work. Owners and founders, Wayne Lowe and Byron Middendorf, have succeeded in fulfilling this mission by focusing on what really matters—family comes first. Knowing that their families are well cared for allows Equinox employees to wholeheartedly focus on the business of providing the best telecom solutions in the industry when they are on the clock. [Read more…]

COMPRION‘s NFC Forum Analog Test Solution has been confirmed as an Approved Test Tool by the NFC Forum. Its listing on the NFC Forum website follows successful completion of a multi-layered validation process. COMPRION’s proven UT³ Platform is now accepted by the NFC Forum for Analog, Digital Protocol, and LLCP and SNEP certifica-tion testing. [Read more…]

LTE North America
18-20 November 2014
Intercontinental Hotel, Dallas, Texas, USA
http://americas.lteconference.com/

Back for an 8th year LTE North America, brought to you buy Informa Telecoms & Media, looks set to be our biggest and best yet! With massive growth last year LTE North America set itself up as the only stand alone 4G and 5G event in North America. With no other event solely focusing on the topics that matter to you this is the only place for 4G and 5G professionals to meet. Our exclusive networking sessions allow you the opportunity to meet with the best in the industry and hear their thoughts on how the market is progressing and what the next steps are. This year with all new 5G content with the 5G North America Summit taking place alongside the main LTE North America show, this is your chance to see what the future holds for the telecom industry in the region.

With 200+ speakers and 1,500+ attendees expected. Of which 45% will be from carrier companies and 50% will be director level of above, this is a must attend event! To find out more about the event and see the full agenda and speaker line up, download the brochure today: http://americas.lteconference.com/download-2014-brochure/.