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BSS/OSS – why we need to ditch the slash

September 24th, 2009 No comments
One of the more unusual UK roadsigns, at the M...
Labels are signposts to help us find each other and the content we’re interested in

Labels may not be uppermost in your mind, but what we call our little corner of the IT industry is actually quite important. by Teresa Cottam

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Policy control: red hot telecoms tech that delivers a great telesperience

June 27th, 2009 No comments
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I often get asked what’s hot in telecoms software. So if you’re a service provider looking for hot tech that’ll also deliver a great telesperience my tip is to take another look at policy control. by Teresa Cottam

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Service model catalyst points way to more efficient and agile service assembly

April 27th, 2009 No comments

We’ve been talking for a while now about transforming the efficiency and agility of our service assembly. And you may recall there was that catalyst – the Product Service Assembly initiative – a while ago that promised to do just that for us? Well if you’ve found yourself wondering ‘whatever happened to that?’ you might like to know that Network Cadence, Comptel and Qwest are just about to reveal all by demonstrating the new Service Model catalyst at Management World Nice. by Teresa Cottam

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M-payment – still the cinderella service? Sybase doesn't think so

February 2nd, 2009 No comments

It doesn’t seem like five minutes – well it’s about three months – since Sybase announced it was partnering Paybox. Now it’s buying them. Teresa Cottam asks what this means for the m-payments world.

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Breaking news about UK mobile operator…well okay maybe not

January 28th, 2009 No comments

by Teresa Cottam

Danny Dicks from Innovation Observatory forwarded an interesting story to us from Total Telecom today. See UK mobile operator’s future hangs in the balance. The headline leads you to believe that one of the UK’s mobile operators’ future is in the balance; but then read on. Nick Wood is writing up from a Frost and Sullivan webcast in which Sharifah Amirah (principal analyst, ICT Europe) apparently states that “There may be one too many mobile providers in the UK market.” Read more…

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