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Finnish ICT sector. The idea will have around 4.5 Million Euros in public funding out of its total of 8 Million Euros. Some of the ideas that Nokia is willing to release are in the areas of environmental and energy-related solutions, location-based services, near field communication, mobile security, future internet services, and others. Nokia will choose roughly 100 ideas, out of its thousands of shelved ideas, for distribution. This type of innovation seems daring and kind all at the same time. It makes one wonder if there’s anything in it for Nokia. Obviously, Nokia will be choosing ideas that it already deemed unfit for their own use, but what will Nokia gain from promoting competition in realms that they themselves are competitors within? Could this truly be a gesture of outstanding compassion for their smaller Finnish brethren or is there some ulterior motive? A more important question is what would it take to get other countries to adopt the same sort of tactics? Theoretically, bolstering competition and bankrolling smaller companies should get the economy rolling again, but would companies in the United States, for instance, with their capitalist tendencies, be willing to do the same thing? It’s certainly an innovative notion and one that definitely needs to be watched closely for its future results. Maybe spreading the wealth will help Finland make a greater name for itself in the telecom arena and beyond.
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every way possible to save steps, thereby saving costs, and with Amdocs announcing this as the “first” single catalog with a BSS/OSS offering, other companies may need to catch up in order to continue scoring customer wins in the current days of the lean operator.
In similar news, Subex has launched Rocware 2.0, a key component of its Revenue Operations Center (ROC), and yet another of the many recent software upgrades we’ve been seeing that are aimed at bettering customer experience while also enhancing the profitability and efficiency of CSPs’ services. “The need for Rocware 2.0 arose from the fact that many of the existing business intelligence solutions focus on the strategic versus the operational and also tend to lack operational assurance functions to check the integrity and accuracy of the data they operate on. We felt there was a strong need for a solution that would help CSPs validate that their operations are working correctly and optimize their business through efficient utilization of existing resources to extract maximum revenue, across departments, groups and products – and hence Rocware 2.0.”, said Mark Nicholson, Chief Technology Officer, Subex Ltd.
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Amdocs announced in Nice that their newest enhancement for the Amdocs CES Portfolio now makes it the first single catalog that offers support to both BSS and OSS systems. The system uses a single common data model but also features two integrated catalogs developed for the specific needs of two sets of users. The CES catalogue has given Amdocs quite a few major customer wins over the last several months and this new enhancement may very well bring in several more. In the currently competitive environment, SPs are looking for
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Africa is seeing significant growth recently in its use of cellular telephony and these changes are quite apparent, at least to Volubill, which managed to win three new customers from the continent. The news customers are situated in Kenya, Senegal, and Ghana, and bring Volubill’s total of African SP customers up to 16. With Africa being one of the fastest growing telecom sectors, other B/OSS companies may do well if they start putting more of a focus on the African area. It seems to be filled with many
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