SDN and NFV have been on the rise for some time – and this is set to continue into 2016, according to Telco Systems’ Moshe Shimon...

Transmission for small cell access points and virtualisation in preparation for IoT will be high on the agenda in 2016, according to Intracom Telecom’s Alexandros Tarnaris…

2015 was a landmark year for mobile financial services. Throughout the year, we witnessed unprecedented growth in all areas of MFS...

2016 might be the year that Big Data gets smaller – and smarter, according to Tecnotree’s Timo Ahomäki...

With competition set to increase in 2016 across many emerging markets, differentiating offerings via customer experience and billing will become ever more important, as LogNet’s Kirill Rechter notes…

With access to high-speed data becoming the norm, Openet sees a shift in how content is offered in 2016 as customer experience becomes king.

Small-cell deployment is being considered by mobile operators around the world as a means to satisfy the ever-increasing mobile broadband traffic demand in urban areas.

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Ericsson VP of Sustainability, Elaine Weidman-Grunewald discusses the GSMA Humanitarian Connectivity Charter, launched earlier in 2015, with Developing Telecoms.

Alec Barton, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Developing Telecoms, spoke to Chris Fabian of UNICEF about some of the key challenges facing MNOs in emerging markets. The full interview can be read in our Special Report, Connected Citizens – Managing Crisis, available to download free of charge here.

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Facebook’s incoming security chief has asserted that internet users in emerging markets should have the same right to security as those in developed markets.

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We live in a data-centric, wireless world, and no technology is better suited to address this reality than Wi-Fi.

2015 will be the year service providers truly identify - and begin filling - the engagement void that exists between them and their customers.

There is a lot going on in the telecommunications industry right now, whether because of the threat from more agile and fas­ter OTT players, the fast changing dynamics in the industry or telco’s own mindset of not being a dumb pipe anymore.

We see 2015 as being the year when CEM (Customer Experience Management) becomes a top priority for operators in developing markets, as they continue their quest for the retention of customers and improvements in ARPU.

Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) require substantial data capacities for core and trunking services, much of which uses fibre/cable.

In 2015, we expect to see five major mobile backhaul trends in emerging markets. 

As mobile telecoms become more and more intertwined with the internet, we will continue to see new services and opportunities emerge, both in the B2B and B2C area, as a result of this growing interconnectivity.

Growing customer expectations and challenging network dynamics are putting pressure on the Radio AccessNetwork (RAN) in such a manner that almost 80% of quality impacting events occur in the RAN.

A significant shift has taken place in the telecom landscape as market dynamics bring together need and opportunity to create a major change.

In developing markets network coverage is often a significant problem, with many people outside of major cities having trouble getting connections because of poor telecoms infrastructure in their area.

Developing the mobile data usage has become the main priorities of operators across developing countries.

One of the major trends we observed in 2014 was cloud companies’ expansion from the US and into international markets.

The current market conditions in emerging markets for the telecom industry are somewhat unpredictable and influenced by the global macroeconomic developments.

At a recent next gen BSS conference that I attended, two of the best presentations were not from operators or BSS vendors but content providers.