The annual GSMA Mobile Economy Europe paints a mixed picture for CSPs, with continuing consolidation helping to stabilize the competitive landscape, but saturation in B2C pointing to slow growth in traditional revenue streams. The silver lining however, is a faster than expected adoption of 5G and a determined march into new verticals, showing many green shoots of growth.
Read MoreTopics: Service Assurance, OSS, NFV, 5G, OSS Transformation, Digital Transformation, SDN, Telco Cloud, EAA, Artificial Intelligence
Mobile Europe interview with Payam Taaghol, CEO, MYCOM OSI
Originally printed as a front cover profile in Mobile Europe Magazine & European Communications Q3 2018, click here to read the magazine.
2018 is proving a busy year for MYCOM OSI, as the global CSP community wakes up to the instrumental role cloud-based service quality assurance can play in realising autonomic networks.
The more ambitious CSPs’ plans, the more critical it is that they can support the QoE with a light and eventually no operational touch – tracking everything in one place, and leaning on the latest technology to enable predictive analytics, automation and self-learning.
In this exclusive interview with Mobile Europe and European Communications, Payam Taaghol, MYCOM OSI’s CEO, sets out his vision and describes the transformations his company has already made possible.
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Topics: Service Assurance, OSS, Business Transformation, 5G, OSS Transformation, Digital Transformation, Awards, Telco Cloud
In May 2018, TM Forum held their annual flagship conference, Digital Transformation World (DTW), in Nice, France. This leading industry event was a rich and inspiring gathering of industry experts and CIOs/CTOs exchanging visionary ideas and sharing experiences about the latest advancement in our industry.
Read MoreTopics: Service Assurance, NFV, IoT, 5G, CSP, Digital Transformation, SDN, Telco Cloud, Artificial Intelligence
5G networks are taking their first steps out of trials and labs into reality with innovative use cases demonstrated during the winter Olympics in South Korea early in 2018. Now the “how” of deploying dynamic, self-orchestrating networks has been explored and successfully demonstrated in recent TM Forum proof of concept Catalysts focused around providing new service provision and connectivity for the Tour de France cycle race, to demonstrate the real world benefits and value of 5G and new technologies available.
Read MoreTopics: Service Assurance, NFV, IoT, 5G, SDN, Telco Cloud
Blog written by James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst - OSS/BSS Transformation, Heavy Reading, and published on Light Reading on 14/12/2017
Back in 2014 the regulatory winds were favorable in European telecoms with consolidation in both the German and Austrian markets taking the number of mobile network operators from four to three. "Market repair" was the buzzword of the day and operators were keen to see if they could achieve similar consolidation in other countries. In the UK, there were four MNOs: EE (itself a merger of Orange and T-Mobile's UK arms), O2 (part of the Telefonica Group, Vodafone and Three UK (part of Asian conglomerate CK Hutchison). With EE being snapped up by BT, Three made an audacious offer for O2 that would have created the largest mobile operator in the UK with over 40% share of mobile subscribers and a strong portfolio of spectrum. However, after a year of deliberations, in May 2016 the deal was blocked by the EU commission on competition grounds, leaving Three UK in a quandary.
Read MoreTopics: Service Assurance, NFV, IoT, Orchestration, 5G, SDN, Telco Cloud
NFV-core based 5G networks have already caught the fancy of the Telco Cloud service provider. The reasons for this are its promise of high QoS.
High speed/throughput, high reliability, low latency, high capacity, high availability, high connectivity and dynamic bandwidth allocation are the key QoS benefits that Telco Cloud service providers can expect from the 5G Cloud RAN and the NFV core networks.
Read MoreTopics: NFV, 5G, CSP Digital Transformation, Network Function Virtualization, Telco Cloud
Digital businesses and digital networks are all about high speed communication, dynamic network orchestration and on-demand services. Without an overhaul of current Operation Support Systems (OSS), service providers will be up against big operational challenges to realize their digital business objectives.
Topics: OSS, NFV, IoT, Automation, CSP, Digital Transformation, Telco Cloud
As CSPs undergo digital transformation - which means offering digital services through a Telco Cloud environment – they face a whole set of operational challenges, including operating a new virtualized network, focusing on customer experience more than before and providing high reliability and availability for upcoming IoT services. Simplifying the operations can help in tackling these challenges.
Read MoreTopics: OSS, NFV, IoT, Analytics, Automation & Orchestration, CSP Digital Transformation, Network Function Virtualization, Digital Service Quality Management, OSS Transformation, Digital Transformation, Service Quality Management, Customer behavior, SDN, Telco Cloud
As CSPs undergo digital transformation - which means running their business out of a cloud, selling digital services and operating like web-scale internet companies - assuring the Telco Cloud business will take high priority. With networks virtualizing, services digitalizing and IoT looming large, the business risks are much higher than envisaged. Assurance of the Telco Cloud network and services will be key in assuring the new Telco Cloud business.
Read MoreTopics: OSS, NFV, IoT, Analytics, Automation & Orchestration, CSP Digital Transformation, Network Function Virtualization, Digital Service Quality Management, OSS Transformation, Network Monetization, Digital Transformation, Service Quality Management, Customer behavior, SDN, Telco Cloud
The Telco Cloud, defined as virtualized infrastructure to run digital services and agile operations, has not only paved the way for digitalization of CSP businesses, but also opened up new avenues for data monetization.
Through 2017, CSPs will continue to make investments in analytics to drive focused investments in network and services, manage customer experience better and personalize services. To support this, data monetization solutions that offer customer intelligence out of a Telco Cloud and how it can be monetized will be critical and much in demand.
Read MoreTopics: OSS, NFV, IoT, Analytics, Automation & Orchestration, CSP Digital Transformation, Network Function Virtualization, Digital Service Quality Management, OSS Transformation, Network Monetization, Digital Transformation, Service Quality Management, Customer behavior, SDN, Telco Cloud
