Ericsson, Huawei, Samsung Make Infrastructure Race 'Highly Competitive'
Traditional players Nokia Siemens and Alcatel-Lucent are in the midst of restructuring, with decisions that impact their equipment, services and software businesses. Al-Lu is planning to sell assets,...
View ArticleAlcatel-Lucent To 'Muddle Through the Morass of Its Mediocrity'
Alcatel-Lucent might be in less danger of going bankrupt, but that doesn't mean the telecom equipment giant is poised for great success anytime soon.
View ArticleB/OSS' Top 10 Stories of 2012
Mega-mergers. Crazy cases of bill shock. Call centers shutting down. 2012 was a big year for news in billing/BSS/OSS. Here are the top 10 stories as determined by readers of the weekly B/OSS newsletter.
View ArticleAT&T, Ericsson Get Giddy Over Gadget Testing
Ericsson will test the performance of devices for AT&T to make sure the gadgets are compatible with regulatory and international carrier requirements and networks.
View ArticleSlide Show: B/OSS' Top 10 Stories in December
We tallied our top 10 stories for December by combining online page views with results from our weekly newsletters. Among the top: Ericsson's OSS-BSS revolution; an alarming Oracle survey on churn; and...
View ArticleOracle, Ericsson, Huawei Tops in Service Delivery Platforms
The service-delivery platform market will approach the $6 billion mark in 2017.
View ArticleSDP Market Poised to Approach $7 Billion by 2018
A new report names Huawei, Ericsson, Alactel-Lucent, Nokia Siemens Networks, Oracle and HP as the key players in this market.
View ArticleRazorsight Names 2 New Vice Presidents
Cloud-based analytics solutions provider Razorsight has appointed two industry veterans to its senior executive team.
View ArticleOracle's Tekelec Buy to Spur 'Soul Searching' for Ericsson, SAP, Alcatel-Lucent
With Oracle's purchase of Tekelec, look for the race between telecom-centric and IT-centric vendors to heat up even more.
View ArticleAmdocs, Oracle, NetCracker Finalists for Multiple TM Forum Awards
TM Forum, the nonprofit industry association for service providers, is out with its list of finalists for the group's annual Excellence Awards, to be handed out at Management World 2013 in Nice next...
View ArticleThe Biggest BSS-OSS/Service Provider M&A of Q1 2013
Some service providers and players in the billing and BSS/OSS industries made major acquisitions in the first quarter of 2013, deals that could change the landscape for years to come.
View ArticleEricsson Acquires Microsoft Mediaroom
Ericsson has reached an agreement with Microsoft to acquire its TV solution Mediaroom business, which the infrastructure giant says will make it the leading provider of IPTV and multiscreen solutions.
View ArticleNSN, Ericsson, Hauwei Sign MOU for OSS Interoperability
The cross-licensing and interoperability testing is open for third-party OSS vendors by joining the OSSii.
View ArticleEricsson, Accenture Named Tops in Telecom Operations Management
Gartner says the TOMS market became more concentrated in 2012, with the top 20 vendors accounting for about 58 percent of total revenue, up from 56 percent the previous year.
View ArticleNew Ericsson, NSN Wi-Fi Products 'To Boost Customer Experience'
At CTIA 2013 this week in Las Vegas, Nokia Siemens Networks and Ericsson unveiled products that offer traffic-steering capabilities between Wi-Fi and cellular networks.
View ArticleEricsson: Video To Drive Data Traffic to Staggering Heights
Overall data traffic is expected to grow 12-fold by the end of 2018, the infrastructure giant said, with the increasing use driven by continual growth in the amount of content available as well as the...
View ArticleEricsson: Network Performance Key to Customer Loyalty
Up to 60 percent of smartphone users say they experience problems at least once a week, and just over 30 percent encounter problems every day.
View ArticleEricsson Edges Out Huawei in Convergent Charging
The convergent charging market grew by 42 percent in 2012, to almost $1.7 billion, with healthy growth expected to continue throughout the rest of this year.
View ArticleEricsson Overtakes Huawei in CSP SDP Survey
Getting services to market faster is overwhelmingly the top business driver behind respondents' service delivery platform (SDP) investments, according to an Infonetics survey.
View ArticleThe Battle for Control of Telco 2.0 Service Delivery, Billing and Policy
Telco 2.0 expert Stephen Rickaby sits down with Dan Baker to talk about strategic issues that mobile telecoms are struggling with. Along the way he also analyzes Oracle’s recent moves to acquire Acme...
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