Imagine the Possibilities

The need to imagine new ideas for products, services, alliances and business models is no longer a once-a-year, off-site activity. It’s a critical and everyday requirement for companies looking simply to survive in unpredictable markets and against unpredictable competition. In this article Tim Manahan explains how imagining the potential of telecom is helping traditional and non-traditional players in telecom create new value for customers and shareholders. More….
 

Dynamic Pricing Manages Mobile Traffic and Margin

By dynamically offering appropriate price discounts, service providers can incent customers to shift some of their usage from congested cell sites to adjacent locations or different times of day.  As a result, service providers can actually increase total usage and revenue, improve the usage experience for all customers, and avoid large unnecessary capital upgrades to the network. More….
 

Gaining a Total Perspective on Mass Market Broadband

Given the explosive growth of FTTx, it is critical to have the right information at hand to make the best business decisions regarding fiber access across the service provider business. What is needed is a planning environment that provides all of the relevant information about the network, weather, markets, demographics, revenue potential, and more to foster more consistent, more analytical, and faster decision-making throughout the enterprise. More…

Enterprise Services: Fiber, Sweat…without the Tears

Today’s enterprise services require increasingly complex network designs with many moving parts and parameters. Delivering these services - from order negotiation through activation - has been a mostly manual operation, fragmented across disconnected systems and organizations. Now competitive pressures to expedite delivery without errors have turned this approach into a headache for many Operations shops – to the point of tears. Here’s how to dry up the tears. More….