Telecom

Cloud-native telco product taking shape for the market

Rakuten Mobile, characterizes itself as a global communications company and adopter of advanced telco technologies, has announced that it is going to acquire one of its suppliers: Innoeye (Innoeye, LLC and Innoeye Technologies Pvt. Ltd.), an engineering technology solutions company with headquarters based in Virginia, which has already supplied Rakuten Mobile with its converged OSS. […]

Telco ambition put at risk by private cellular networks

The popularity of private cellular networks has increased among enterprises. There are now initiatives in 15 countries for businesses to deploy private networks according to the tech market advisory firm, ABI Research. This includes both arrangements for enterprises to obtain a spectrum from the regulator directly, as well as spectrum which is held by mobile […]

The GSMA pushes for a united front on Mobile Money

The GSMA’s mobile money team has called on operators to help drive in the next phase of growth in the sector by adopting its new generation of protocols to create a harmonized industry and also to aid integration with third parties. The GSMA Director of Inclusive Financial Technology, Bart-Jan Pors and API Architect for Inclusive […]

The role of cloud computing in telecoms

According to Martin Creaner, a leading author and strategic thinker in the global communications industry, there are many different aspects that are moving the world of telecoms forward, over the next few years. The future of the telco is going to be a disruptive model and one of the currents moving it forward, will be that […]

The potential of gigabit broadband

Gigabit speed broadband has the potential to add a possible $50 billion to the British economy over the course of the next 5 years. Despite the UK making steady progress over the last 5 years in its attempt to deliver full-fibre connectivity to homes around the country, it still falls behind other European leaders. Accessing […]

Aladdin.Life – World’s first telecom marketplace in the UAE

Aladdin.Life has recently launched the beta version of the world’s first telecom marketplace app in the UAE, combing search, marketplace, and customer community that will aid uses in discovering, comparing and making informed decisions about broadband, mobile and home services. Aladdin.Life users will have the ability to connect to a marketplace and will also be […]

What can MNOs do right now?

As the world is taken over by the COVID-19 pandemic, the majority of industries are attempting to understand how they will cope through the course of the crisis. For Mobile Network Operators (MNO’s), it is a chance to serve their communities and develop trust and goodwill. While the term social distancing has and undoubtedly become […]

A different approach to mobile data services

VodafoneZiggo, Vodafone’s Dutch Communication Service Provider, (CSP) is launching 5G with Ericsson Spectrum Sharing and Ericsson 5G core. The surprising factor here, is that it is not using any 5G spectrum initially. It is however, using the flexibility Ericsson’s Spectrum Sharing has provided it, to tap into some of its LTE/4G spectrum and data across […]