Global sales of smartphones to end users declined 1.7 percent in the second quarter of 2019, totalling 368 million units. However, demand for high-end smartphones has slowed at a greater rate than demand for midrange and low-end smartphones.
The continuing rollout of innovative financial services for those with limited, or no, access to banks is also inspiring all sorts of innovation, including a concept that its originator Juvo calls Financial Identity as a Service (FiDaaS).
In this new playbook we map out some of today’s most promising monetization opportunities and the key capabilities that digital leaders are putting into place to prepare for 5G.
Intracom Telecom has won a major rural ultra-broadband (UBB) deal with its fixed wireless access (FWA) solutions.
Monetisation of digital and 5G services to transition from charging for data to monetisation of anything means operators must take a new approach to charging that is ready for the 5G world.
Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten is transforming customer experience. In this interview, Netcracker Strategy Director Ed Finegold talks about Netcracker’s role in enabling Rakuten’s vision.
Thunes has completed its $10 million Series A financing led by venture firm GGV Capital.
Huawei launches the industry's first intelligent metro router series, NetEngine 8000, at MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress 2019.
Interview with Patrick Joggerst, Ribbon Communications Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President for Business Development
Interview with John Tenidis, Intracom Telecom Marketing Director Wireless Network Systems.
Western Union has teamed up with Thunes, a cross-border payments network for emerging markets, to enable Western Union customers to send funds directly into mobile wallets around the world.
Interview with Sotiris Bithas, Intracom Telecom Marketing Director for Telco Software.
At MWC 2019, we were briefed by President of Consulting & Service Solution Sales Dept., Carrier BG, Huawei and Steven Wu on how the vendor is prepared for the imminent arrival of commercial 5G.
Today, 80% of women across low- and middle-income countries own a mobile phone, according to the latest findings the GSMA.
The development of bandwidth-driven transport networks faces severe challenges. In this article Richard Jin examines how these can be successfully overcome by network operators.
Avanci has announced that China Mobile has joined its Internet of Things patent licensing platform. China Mobile will license its entire global portfolio of 2G, 3G and 4G standard essential patents to the IoT market through Avanci’s marketplace. The Avanci licensing platform now includes 21 patent owners.
Huawei is focusing on emerging markets at MWC19, unveiling a host of innovations including the new 5G Skysite. Other highlights include Ruralstar Lite and Simplified AI Powered 5G.
Sky and Space Global has received signed binding commitments for raising $12 million in a two-tranche share placement to investors as part of its $15 million fundraising effort.
Strategy Analytics and Juvo today launched a study uncovering the hidden reality of the prepaid mobile market in developing economies.
Developing Telecoms recently spoke with Mr Wang Qingwen, President of Huawei WTTx product line, about Huawei’s new Wireless Fiber.
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With Juniper Research predicting in 2018 that mobile operator core revenues will fall by $50 billion over the next 5 years, telcos, ISPs and hosting providers are understandably under enormous pressure to reduce customer churn, attract new customers, cut costs and grow revenues. But how?
SDN/NFV-as-a-Service aims to accelerate time to market for next-gen B2B services.
