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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
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Willetts Junior appointed CEO of TM Forum
Son of founder Keith Willetts confirmed as CEO of TM Forum at start of Nice conference The TM Forum has appointed Nik Willetts as CEO, after six months as acting CEO. Willetts took over from Peter Sany, who left in November 2016 “for personal reasons”. The organisation – which today began its annual TM Forum Live conference in Nice – said at the time that Willetts woul
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TM Forum appoints Nik Willetts as CEO
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Willetts appointed CEO of TM Forum
TM Forum, the industry association driving digital business transformation of the communications industry, appointed Nik Willetts as CEO. Since 2015, Willetts served as the deputy CEO of TM Forum where he was responsible for leading the Forum's strategy, digital transformation and value-delivery for its core communications industry collaboration programs. Previously, Willetts held