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Telcos call for an end to billing
FROM TM FORUM LIVE, NICE, FRANCE: A keynote session this morning did not provide a comfortable message for an audience of OSS and BSS specialists when a panel of telco executives queried whether the telecoms industry still actually needs to send bills at all. Erik Hoving, group CTO at KPN, pointed to the difference between how telcos and over-the-top (OTT) providers charge for the
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Software launches focus on AI, analytics, 5G for operators
Vendors increase support for AI, analytics, 5G A number of product launches this week aim to help operators navigate an increasingly software-centric world by better leveraging their networks and moving toward becoming digital businesses. At TM Forum, Netcracker made its most recent platform release with the launch of Netcracker 12. The new platform expands interne
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Investors want to see digital business model differentiation, says Goldman Sachs
Telecoms investors are excited by the disruption affecting the industry, but cautious amid emerging business models, the Managing Director of Goldman Sachs’ Technology, Media and Telecom Group has said. Nick Pomponi, speaking at the opening of the TM Forum’s annual conference in France on Tuesday, said it was “one of most interesting times since the introduction of mobile”
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Ericsson Eyes Takeovers to Bolster Digital Services Unit
NICE, France -- TM Forum Live -- Ericsson is considering buying companies that could strengthen its digital services business and is predicting a "tangible turnaround" at the ailing unit next year. Speaking to Light Reading on the sidelines of this week's TM Forum Live event in Nice, Ulf Ewaldsson, who heads up the recently formed digital services business area, revealed that take
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Amdocs shows off AI and smart cities projects at TM Forum
TM Forum Live catalyst projects include Amdocs partnerships with Orange and NTT, and Bell Canada Amdocs has unveiled a number of catalyst projects around smart cities and artificial intelligence (AI). Amdocs has contributed to a smart city project, championed by Orange and NTT, which focuses on the creation of a new service provider business platform for delivering innovative a
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Artificial intelligence and smart city Catalyst projects shown at TM Forum Live! in Nice to promote quality of life
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AT&T eyes large slice of the smart city pie
FROM TM FORUM LIVE, NICE, FRANCE: The different connectivity options set to underpin smart cities of the future are expected to account for between 5 per cent and 10 per cent of the total smart city value chain, providing a multi-billion dollar opportunity for operators such as AT&T which are already investing heavily in this area. So explained Mike Zeto (pictured), general m
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Open Source an ‘Overrated Necessity,’ Says PCCW
NICE, France -- TM Forum Live -- If open source has swiftly become the latest religious practise in the telecom industry, it is still attracting its share of skeptics and unbelievers. Some were on display at this week's annual TM Forum Live conference in Nice, where Shahar Steiff, an assistant vice president at Hong Kong's PCCW, described open source as an "overrated necessity" in
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Bewildering complexity of telecoms virtualization highlighted at TMF Live
On the opening morning of the TM Forum Live 2017 event a succession of operators and vendors lined up to give their take on how virtualization is progressing. The ultimate conclusion was ‘it’s complicated’, as illustrated by prevalence of the all too familiar ‘loads of boxes inside bigger boxes’ software slides. Everyone agrees on what a great idea telecoms virtualizatio
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Verizon CIO admits industry needs to up its digital game
FROM TM FORUM LIVE, NICE, FRANCE: Shankar Arumugavelu, CIO at Verizon, claimed the telecoms industry is not moving fast enough to capitalise on the digital evolution it championed, with data still an untapped asset. “Data is the new oil and analytics is the new refinery,” Arumugavelu said, adding telecoms operators have the right to win in this space because they own the key i