Huawei has signed a managed services agreement with Three UK to deliver service management and operations for Three’s core network, transport network and ICT applications. Huawei has selected TechMahindra as its ICT Partner to deliver the ICT applications management.
A report from Innovation Observatory has claimed that the gross value of all international wholesale telecoms services transported by new IP eXchange networks (IPX) will rise from around $0.5 billion (1.4% of the international wholesale business) today to $D5 billion in 2017
With operators looking to gain as much capacity as possible from 3G spectrum, the use of Dual Carrier (DC) HSPA is one avenue open to them.
Vodafone Greece launches free public access location-based small cell serviceOperators are preparing to deploy million of small cells per year over the next five years as new business models begin to appear, according to analysts.
The Small Cell Forum’s Market Status Report, produced this quarter by Informa TM analyst Dimitris Mavrakis, has reported that there are now six million small cells in service across 46 operator femtocell deployments globally, with “several” operators now reporting deployments with hundreds of thousands of femtocells.
Mobile operators are being offered a white-label app that would enable them to offer users multiple phone numbers, tied to separate iDs, on a single phone.
The app doesn’t require users to use a Dual-SIM phone or activate a second SIM identity, or use the data channel (VoIP) for the alternative number as many OTT voice services do. Instead, intelligence is handled between an on-device client and a network server to handle number translation, so that incoming and outgoing calls can be routed over the TDM (voice) network and carry the chosen caller iD.
Many mobile operators are still unsure of the value that IPXs (IPeXchanges) can bring to their businesses, according to Isabelle Paradis, CEO of research company Hot Telecom.
Originally conceived by the GSMA to cater for the growing IP needs of mobile operators; IPX has since come to include the IP-requirements of fixed operators, cable companies, ISPs and "OTT" players. Hot Telecom has carried out a survey of 100+ providers and customers of IPXs, and found that there appears to be a disconnect between how IPX providers view their businesses, and how their customers do.
In recent months we at Mobile Europe have noted an increasing amount of noise around the automation of network processes - whether that's for planning, optimisation or management. In this guest post, Thomas Neubauer, Managing Director of Symena, an AIRCOM company, explains why automation will be essential for the efficient and economical operation of LTE networks and where automated processes can deliver the most value.
Infonetics analyst Stéphane Téral has confirmed, in a recent report, that mobile operators are increasingly deploying SON techniques - written into the 3GPP standards at LTE level - to help them manage their 3G networks.
Téral interviewed operators for his latest market survey: SON and Optimization Strategies: Global Service Provider Survey. He found that while SON is up and running in a few LTE networks around the world, some of the large incumbents have deployed SON as the key optimization tool in their 3G networks as well.
Operators can reduce backhaul costs by 40% by deploying edge-based caching and optimisation at the base station, according to Altobridge.
Altobridge said that it has proved a reduction of 40% in backhaul payload for Malaysian operator Maxis from sites where its technology has been deployed in a live commercial deployment. CEO Mike Fitzgerald related that to a 40% reduction in backhaul costs.
Vodafone Group has announced the creation of a new Group Enterprise unit, effective from 1 January 2013. Nick Jeffery, currently CEO of Cable & Wireless Worldwide (“CWW”), will be appointed Group Enterprise Director responsible for the new unit. The new unit will have four vertical teams, Global Enterprise, Carrier Services, Machine-to-Machine solutions and Hosting and Cloud Services.
The company has also announced it will speed up its integration of CWW into Vodafone, to meet "strong customer demand for combined products and services."
Swisscom will launch commercial LTE services in 26 locations in Switzerland on 29 November, following trials in Berne, Zurich and seven tourist regions launched late in 2011.
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The number of cells required to meet the capacity demands of just one square kilometre of a busy city centre will increase to more than 40 by 2015, according to 