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Capital Expense constraints have forced
service providers to be more deliberate
in prioritizing their spending. This
is a reality we have all come to know
over the past few years. Today, there
are two major, and separate, spending
campaigns, building two coexisting, yet
separate networks:
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Larger pipes enabling big broadband
to the home,
- Greater coverage and bandwidth for
mobile service.
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This month, the telecommunications world
has made it through plenty of new product
launches, lawsuits, mergers, and new leaders.
Here are some of the ones we thought you
should know about in your June OSS Newswatch
column. For the latest in news from TMW-Nice,
check out our Nice feature story.
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The conference halls are dark. The booths
have been taken down. The funky marketing
giveaways are resting safely in carry-on
bags, Nice trashcans, and the hands of
the surely under whelmed offspring of
telecom types around the globe. (My Dad
went to Nice and all I got was this lousy
provisioning solution branded slinky?)
It's official: TMW-Nice 2007 is history.
The good news? It was a fun one.
This year's Nice show bears noting for
a few reasons. First off, it was big.
There were over 3,000 attendees this
year, making it a significant improvement
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Trade shows can be tough. Every fiscal
year, potential exhibitors and vendors
alike have tough calls to make: what
shows to attend, how much to spend
on each event, how to promote their
presence at the show, and many others.
One thing that makes these decisions
harder is the fact that there are so
many events from which to choose. Especially
around this time of year, we are all
barraged with a thousand trade show
invitations. This issue of Pipeline,
alone, has three separate trade show
features.
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The market readiness of fixed-mobile
convergence (FMC) technologies is still
an open question. Home zone technology
is the least disruptive and fully market-ready,
while the introduction of mainstream
IMS-based SIP services remains at least
3-5 years away. Regardless, the transition
to total FMC is inevitable. It is only
a matter of when, not if.
According to research
from Heavy Reading, differences in the
core networks of fixed and mobile technologies
will all but disappear by 2012. Operators
are in varying stages of integrating
their fixed and mobile networks ... »
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Seamless integration
of mobile phones and enterprise communication
systems has been an industry need for
longer than most of us can remember.
In its infancy, back in the early to
mid 1990s, the barrier to entry for tight
integration was the technology itself,
which just wasn’t up to the task.
But now that technology is no longer
a significant barrier, the issues standing
in the way are organizational and more
pragmatic.
This is the case on
all three sides of the triangle – service
provider, enterprise, and end user. There
is a great misunderstanding among these
groups ...
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The Telestrategies’ Billing & OSS
World 2007 conference, the organization’s
fifteenth conference to date, took
place fairly smoothly at Chicago’s
McCormick Place convention center.
The days were rainy and attendees not
from Chicago may have been disappointed
by the lack of visible skyline that
is normally so readily apparent. Instead,
they got storm clouds, nagging rainfall,
and several lackluster days without
sunshine.
The gray feeling outside, however,
didn’t necessarily intrude on
the flurry of activity that was going
on inside...
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From the first
words of the first key note speaker,
one could sense that this TeleManagement
World was different: it was about
change:
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The key note
speakers were different. They represented
a wide variety of industries and
perspectives, and mostly, they
provided a wake up call – change
or die.
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Presenters
and participants bluntly admitted
that technology alone cannot solve
business problems. Real solutions
must be grounded firmly in providing
a great customer experience, and
in meeting clearly defined business
goals. Alignment of people, process
and system was touted again and again
as the only way to achieve success.
No more buying “stuff” and
hoping it would solve the problem...
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“Come together. Right now.” -The
Beatles
As much as I enjoy
and appreciate the Beatles, if they
were talking to my fixed and mobile
voice services, they really should
have been more specific. Come together?
Sure... but how?
The dream is simple.
One phone. One bill. The ability to
move seamlessly between a home network
and a wireless network without dealing
with dropped calls, massive changes
in QoS, billing headaches, or any other
giant hassles...
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