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Telecommunications (International Edition) archives from May 2003
Plumbing network leaks: telecom fraud, perhaps the ultimate in virtual white collar crime, is alive, well, and on the increase. (Commentary).(Industry Overview)
May 1, 2003... In the general talk of sales, costs and profits in the telecom industry lies a soft underbelly: 'revenue leakage'. It may seem a strange term in itself. How after all can money simply leak away in network operations? How indeed? Of the many...
Interoute: back from the brink. (Global News Analysis: Europe).
May 1, 2003... Interoute is on the acquisition trail. Not a remarkable statement in itself were it not for the fact that this privately-held pan-Europeon operator was staring extinction in the face a few short months ago. "I can confirm that we're in...
Operators respond to ethernet demand. (Global News Analysis: Europe).
May 1, 2003... The move by pan-European operator Colt to launch an international ethernet service last month is the latest in a series of carrier announcements to extend the dominant LAN protocol out into the WAN. Telefonica and Telia have already declared...
The future is might. (News in Brief).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... T-Mobile, Telef6nica Moviles and TIM have created an alliance intended to 'strengthen their ability to compete in cross-border markets'. The details of the actual offering, which is seen as an attempt to fend off Vodafone, are still unclear and...
Russia in USO rethink. (News in Brief).(universal service obligation )(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The proposed universal service obligation (USO) has been removed from Russia's draft law on communications, according to a report in the Russian newspaper Vedomosti. President Putin is said to have criticised the fuzziness of the draft in...
Countdown to CommunicAsia2003. (News in Brief).
May 1, 2003... According to show organisers SES (Singapore Exhibition Services), CommunicAsia2003 -- to be held at the Singapore Expo, 17-20 June -- is on course to have 1,400 exhibitors and 38,000 visitors. And running alongside the yearly event for the...
Cdma2000 comes to Nigeria. (News in Brief).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The first African CDMA2000 1X wireless network has been launched by private mobile operator Multi-Links in Lagos, Nigeria. Initially, the service will be available to 500,000 subscribers in the city but there are plans to expand outside of the...
The brand: it's the real thing. (View from the Top).(M1 in Singapore)
May 1, 2003... The word Singapore conjures up images of slowly rotating ceiling fans and tropical downpours, gin slings and sampans, not multi-media services branding -- but that hasn't stopped M1, as the CEO, Neil Montefiore, explains.
M1, the...
Is your slice of the global market big enough? Let them eat cake: can operators get fat serving multinationals? (Revenue-Generating Networks).
May 1, 2003... If global, fixed-line operators offer value-added services to the corporate sector, they can, in theory at least, dodge the pressures that squeeze the margins of wholesale capacity providers. In practice, suppliers to multinational corporations...
Outsourcing: a cure for the industry's bills? (Revenue-Generating Networks).(Industry Overview)
May 1, 2003... For operators, billing can be a complex, fast-moving and expensive business. So, some would argue, why not outsource all the headaches?
European operators have been slow to outsource billing and customer care functions, even though cash...
Thinking outside the box: to successfully deliver and assure IP services, operators require a new OSS strategy. (Revenue-Generating Networks).(Industry Overview)
May 1, 2003... One story, apparently common to many different cultures, has a traveller asking directions to a village From an old man by the roadside. After much thought, the Zen-like response slowly comes: "Well, if I were you, I wouldn't start from here."...
Unearthing the customer: data mining is no longer the preserve of mathematical statisticians. Marketeers can also make a real, practical use of it. (Revenue-Generating Networks).
May 1, 2003... Data mining has an image problem -- an image as a dusty, theoretical discipline best left to mathematical statisticians burrowing through vast quantities of data in some dark corner of the office. It is grudgingly admitted to be useful, but...