Features
Content billing
With mobile operators adopting triple and quad play strategies, either through partnership or direct ownership, do they need to adopt their billing strategies to allow the mobile to become the prime engine of content billing?
Richard Owen,
Billing
In the past, service providers have dictated to their customers what types of services they can have, based largely on the capabilities of the network, but what if the network could repsond to customer needs. Can a
3G Handover Testing
Michael Lawton, Product Marketing Engineer, Electronic Measurement Group, Agilent Technologies UK, discusses the process of validating inter-RAT handover and cell transitions using two base station emulators.
The ability to perform handovers without interruption of service is a key
Test & Measurement - Benchmarking customer experience
While operators continue to sell to their end customers based on network coverage, behind the scenes monitoring of performance has got a lot more complex. Mobile Europe looks at how customer experience monitoring can benefit an operator’s
New race, new rules
Chipset design
As technology development begins to outpace manufacturing capability and price points continue to drop, semiconductor manufacturers are searching for new strategies to meet these increasing demands. Shrikrishna Gokhale, Head of Sasken’s Semiconductor Division, explains.
The importance of being in the middle
OSS
Though often not given much consideration, middleware is a vital component, not only in its technical capacity, but also in its ability to make OSS/BSS systems more agile and help drive down costs.
Jack of all trades?
Mobile music - handset design
The mobile handset is becoming the Swiss Army Knife of the electronics world. But can it take on all-devices and win, asks Peter Whale, of Motorola TTPCom Product Group
Commercial break?
Mobile advertising
Mobile advertising encompasses everything from banners on portals, to sponsored video content, to messages sent to users. With operators desparate to monetise content, can they find a model that works for all?